The following questions are related to ‘Bipolar’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
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Q: I genuinely hate people, at a core level. This creates an amount of constant anxiety which I’ve been treating with a combination of Zoloft (50mg/day) and Klonopin (2mg/day). Klonopin helps greatly with the anxiety, Zoloft helps to calm the racing thoughts I have, and then every once in a while I’ll smoke marijuana because [...]
Q: I am a 20-year-old male and I believe I have Borderline Personality Disorder. My first doctor just prescribed me Prozac for four weeks. It didn’t help at all. Then Anafranil (because I also have OCD) was prescribed, along with some anxiolytics. Still, there were no good results. I thought the Anafranil might help me [...]
Q: My boyfriend and I have lived together for nearly five years. He doesn’t seem to fit the accepted profile of an “abuser.” He isn’t jealous and doesn’t seek to isolate me or control money. Still, he is verbally abusive, and his temper is genuinely terrifying: he throws/smashes things. He has hit me once, after [...]
Q: A friend was diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) years ago. The psychiatrist treating her prescribed Zoloft. After that, she got very hyperactive, couldn’t eat or sleep, and lost TONS of weight in a short time. She also TALKED a mile a minute. She had to come off the Zoloft because her symptoms were [...]
