I've been on and off different kinds of depression medication since the age of 17 and all of a sudden stopped taking them due to the way I felt. I recently found a woman doctor and went to her to talk about everything. My moods change very quickly. I become very mad over the littlest things and then fine... Sometimes I stay unpset. I can't be around people and get all panicky. My doctor put me on 60mg of Cymbalta and something for anxiety also blood pressure pills (that I could taking). Thing is at first they felt as if they might be working but now I'm back at square one after being on the meds for four months or so. I'm still very it irritable, have no patients, snap really easy, feel like I have no energy pretty much feel the same before I started taking them! Could I be suffering from the side effects because I'm not being treated for the right thing? I think I may be bipolar and yes it run in the family. I'm nervous about telling my doctor this because she may think I'm crazy. It took everything I had to even tell anyone and get help again. How should I bring it up and when?

Tell her about your own diagnosis of bipolar, and quite frankly, bipolar people have many of the same symptoms you do, and let her know it runs in the family. You MUST get this out in the open if you want to be helped. And please keep on taking your blood pressure meds, that is ultra important in your stressful condition.

Thank you so very much for your reply! The does know that I stopped taking the blood pressure pills and said that's fine because she was eventually going to ween me off them very soon. I understand that bipolar is sometimes mixed up with depression and at first I that maybe I am depressed but now feel like there is a lot more to it. My doctor asked me if I had coverage... I don't so I'm assuming she was going to make me go to a psychiatrist. Since I don't have the money for that I don't know what else to do. I'm 29 and feel so alone