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Chibi347

Diagnosis and other disorders

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Hi guys, so I’ve been diagnosed type 1 for almost 2.5 years with 1 major manic episode, and one major depressive ep following that. But now I mostly just notice daily ups and downs. i.e. I cry super easy or get irritable really easy. I definitely have anxiety but I’m not really being treated for that because currently I’m on 150 lamotrigine but my pdoc said we could go to 200 for the anxiety. Just wondering if any one can relate or talk about their experience with BP1-2 with anxiety or cycles like mine. Thank you and much love to this community!!

Posted Dec 13, 2020, 4:23 PM UTC

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TheElectricSlide2•

BD1 with anxiety here - depending if you have one or more of a number of specific substance abuse disorders, you may want to consider low dose benzodiazepine such as clonazepam. It has worked wonders for me

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