Diagnosed with bipolar

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I was feeling low, anxiety, social fear, restless and depressed.
So i visited a psychatrist
he diagnosed me with bipolar
i am being given fludac, zenoxa, ilopride and etilaam
do i have to take life long treatment for bipolar
i do feel better after taking the medication
but what are side effects
also due to thyroid i have fluctuating hormones

do i need psychotheraphy because i cant deal with social scenario?

I am not familiar with any of those drugs,usually they just give you a mood stabilizer,maybe a anti- psychotic,and sometimes anti-depressants. If you are depressed and don't have mania I'm not sure why you have that diagnosis.
You may or not have side effects,and you are the only one who can decide if you need psychotherapy.Most people do have to take the meds the rest of their life.

Well to be honest your problems sound to me more like PTSD or even Complex-PTSD than Bipolar.
But I don't know you in person. But if I were you, I would get a second opinion, but psychotherapy is in both cases a good choice, also to sort things out. Sometimes a psychotherapist might see more than a psychiatrist, because usually you see the psychotherapist more often.

Fludac: namaste is referring to fluroxedine (an anti-depressant). The others i hadn't heard of, and i know most of the major bipolar treatment drugs. Be careful taking anti-depressants if you're bipolar, they can really mess with you. I took fluroxedine briefly and it really messed me up.

Yes i am only depressed and i have fluctuating moods
but i am depressed most of the time
And the major problem is social anxiety
the social scenario raises my anxiety and ultimately leads to depression.

Yes even i feel its PTSD
I told the doctor the same
But he said PTSD is when there is sudden trauma
Like accident or bomb blast
But i dont agree with that long term abuse can also lead to PTSD
i never understood what this psychatrist do or diagnose.

A psychatrist gave me the anti depressants i dont know whether i am bipolar or not
I could be having PTSD
but yes i am different
And mostly i am sad, low, depressed, socially anxious
I probably need treatment for mood swings....

There are a lot of reasons from those symptoms.

I agree that PTSD could trigger from long term abuse.

But I don't think you have given clear symptoms of it.

I.e flashbacks of trauma, sudden anxiety from sounds or even thoughts, hallucinations, if something reminds you of the trauma, lack of interest in things, avoidant behaviour. Those are just some of mine. And yes there is mood instability.

Strange that you got diagnosed with bipolar so fast. And medicated.

If you take anti-depressants and you do have bipolar you will soon know. It could make you hypomanic/manic.

I get social anxiety that ultimately leads to depression/suicidal thoughts too. The latter is related to a mood disorder though.

Anyway, I hope you will find out what you really have soon. I'm dealing with a psychiatrist who thinks I have nothing wrong with me despite me basically showing him a mood chart and talking about periods of creativity verse periods of depression.

I agree, because a bipolar diagnosis is not that easy. I've an officiall suspicion (sounds strange, basicly my psychiatrist thinks I could have it, but isn't sure) since september last year and since february this year I've a mood chart. Until now, no officiall diagnosis and I've the feeling I've to wait longer to get one, until there are more ups and downs on the chart and all the other options got sorted out.



And how does he explains it?

I will be only taking fludac now onwards

Since i am experiencing hormonal imbalance due to my thyroids
And thyroids cause depression

I might be bipolar but its just low mood and social anxiety now

And different psychatrist diagnose different things within minutes of meeting

Earlier i was diagnosed with psychosis
Then the next Dr. diagnosed me with cluster B personality
And now i am being diagnosed with bipolar

I personally feel its PTSD and avoidant personality
combined with depression

I get flashbacks, anxiety, crying spells and no there is no hallucination.

In india anything is possible.
He hasnt written on my paper the diagnoses
He just told me orally and wrote down medicines on the paper

People here rarely visit a psychatrist
thats the least visited doctor
and the psychatrist want to make a quick buck
so they diagnose with any random things
and medicate a person heavily