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You *can* take antidepressants for depression caused by bipolar disorder or -- Find my book, Medicines for Mental health, and free drug information, at =====
schizophrenia, but you have to be careful to take other medications to
prevent the AD's from driving you into manic states. For example, a bipolar
person might take Depakote and Celexa, to treat mania and depression, while
taking Celexa alone will probably drive him manic.
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> Ive read so much stuff about that people should not take antidepressants
> if they´re mood
> swings (like mine does), either schizophrenia or manic depression. Most of
> this is
> just disinformation, cause everytime i try to quit my effexor, i get these
> crying attacks,
> and generally i cry a lot without the effexor and i have schizophrenia.
> Trying to explain to
> people that this crying of mine is NOT psychotic but the opposite. It´s
> for the reason
> my serotonin and dopamine and noradrenaline levels are lower because
> effexor
> increases these neurotransmittors. Also the antipsychotics i am forced to
> take doesn´t
> help in fact they decrease my brain activity even more by blocking these
> very same receptors that the effexor activates making me more depressive.