Post pueral psychosis

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Anyone else out there suffered from this scary condition? I still have depression from it but after nearly a year I'm so much better than what I was

Did he!? Good advice!

Except he 'administered' it - can you imagine having that done to you in the doctor's surgery?! [shock}

Ha ha ha ha that's awful! (not sure why Im laughing! That's terrible!)

I heard a woman on the telly say similar. She went to her doctor and said she didn't enjoy sex so he tested her by rubbing her boobs and inserting a dildo! He then told her to go home and tell her husband to do the same, teaching him about foreplay pretty much.

She was elderly to it was many years ago but not enough to not shock me!

I really do not see the problem with calling it a mental hospital. It has people with mental health problems and this is a mental health topic on mumsnet. Why does everyone have to be so fussy and PC and offended on everyone else's behalf ?! I have been mentally ill in the past. If nothing else I find mental hospital easier to spell.

I'm not being fussy on someone else's behalf - I am being 'fussy' on my own behalf - it offended me so I mentioned it along with giving advice to the OP as I have done on her numerous threads :)

It doesn't offend me with my mh history, but then Im not that hung up on whatever is currently the politically correct term because i see them as just words. I don't see something as offensive if its clearly been said in a way which is not meant to be offensive.

Not me but one of my friends. She has been in newspapers and on TV trying to raise awareness of the condition as it took months for her to get a correct diagnosis, and subsequently delayed effective treatment. Now, a few years on, she's making very good progress.

I am type 1bipolar and thought i would say i dont post in Aibu unless 100%well as hearing criticim (quite likely in Aibu) can turn me from struggling with hypo mania to full blown manic rage or from mild depression to suicidal. I also avoid news and anything dark. Aibu not the place for mental health discussions for every ones sake. Also was psychotic after all 3children

Antidepressants should be used with caution in people with bipolar. They do have their place, I was on them for many years but can't take them anymore as my bipolar has got worse and they send me manic.

With a mood stabiliser, perhaps but never on their own.

Fedup and tired i disagree with you re anti depressants i am type 1and had my first manic episode aged 13 i also have seperate episodes of pychosis and have suffered catatonia so i am no mild case yet i have been treated on anti ds for nearly a year in order to breastfeed with slightly more monitering my psychiatrist sais the risk is smaller than people realise with ssris. Now my baby is older i am breastfeeding while on anti psych. Yes they should only be used in extenuating circumstances but the risk of switching has no relevance to how severe a case of bipolar you have if that were true type 2would be treated on them as hypomania in order to be classified as type 2cannot be dangerous.

Tbf all my consultants have said the same as fedup . I'm type I and ADs send me off the wall.

I am not saying they don't send people manic i am disputing that the worse the bipolar the more likely they are to sending you manic . I think every bipolar will go manic if given them at the wrong time.

I am also pointing out that in some circumstances they are given to bipolars like in my circumstance where i wanted to breastfeed as long as poss without anti pychs with the agreement that i would take anti pyschs if needed. They are obviously given sometimes as so many people have been sent manic by them including yourself. I have been sent manic by them but it has nothing to do with the severity of your bipolar.

If you search Google you will also find that anti pychs are not given while breastfeeding but i currently am which i can prove if any mumsnetter cares enough to visit my house.

I was in hospital ill whilst bf. My doc said she wouldn't prescribe ADs as she wasn't "willing to take that risk". I did get px other APs, which unfortunately ended up having the same effect until I was forced back on lithium.

I was vvv low, meds sent me off the wall, lithium brought me back. Dr refused to touch ADs because of my dx.

p.s. I was px quetiapine whilst bf which I refused to take.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/10853919/ here risk of switching is not that high

Plus as i have a history of serious suicide attempts as young as 15 i guess my pdoc felt the risk of me turning manic without being spotted and put on anti pyschs was alot smaller than my suicide risk with medicine its all about benefits and risk.

I also now take olanzapine as i feel this is less likely to harm my baby than me committing suicide or going manic and walkabout . Its all about risk and benefit.

Plus as i have a history of serious suicide attempts as young as 15 i guess my pdoc felt the risk of me turning manic without being spotted and put on anti pyschs was alot smaller than my suicide risk with medicine its all about benefits and risk.

I also now take olanzapine as i feel this is less likely to harm my baby than me committing suicide or going manic and walkabout . Its all about risk and benefit.

Sorry on phone

at expecting someone who says they have severe MH problems to "listen to and act on good advice". I suffer from depression, when im down im my own worst enemy and wouldn't listen to advice either, because im not well!

oh, things seem to have moved on since the comments i was posting on, sorry

AP is different to AD, though. They didn't px citalopram and send you on your way.

Sorry, replying to crawling

I am leaving this thread now as this board is meant to support not chilishisly argue over whoose pychiatrist is right and we are detracting from the op. I also feel like i have entered a my dog is blacker than your dog competition which i despise and feel cheapens the pain caused by all mental illness. I am very sorry everyone particularly op for hi jacking your thread.