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Suggest Methods To Handle Mental Illness With Loss Of Memory

Hi, I m 19 weeks pregnant and have a history of depression. My boyfriend is 20 years old and recently started acting strange he s been in the psych ward 3 times now in the past 2 months, he argues a lot about politics, has run red lights and said he owned the world, once he even ran around naked saying the cops were coming for him. He claims he cannot remember certain incidents. He s on zoloft and I can t remember what else. Well, my question is I ve had depression and I m almost 100 % sure this isn t what he has, please help.
Tue, 28 Oct 2014
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Hi, thank you for using health care magic.
I can understand about concern.
The symptoms you have described are definitely not of depression.
is he on any illicit substance like alcohol, cannabis , etc? if yes then these symptoms can be due to that substance.
If not then these symptoms look like of mania , which is a part of bipolar disorder.
In bipolar disorder there is two part one is depression and the other is mania in which there is excessive talking, grandiosity, decrease need for sleep etc.
This is like a two opposite pole Depression v/s Mania. Many times symptoms switch between this poles , or there may be mix symptoms of both the poles. Zoloft will not be helpful if person is in mania pole.
Help of psychiatrist will be needed for managing this disorder.
Hope this will help you.
Regards.
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Suggest Methods To Handle Mental Illness With Loss Of Memory

Hi, thank you for using health care magic. I can understand about concern. The symptoms you have described are definitely not of depression. is he on any illicit substance like alcohol, cannabis , etc? if yes then these symptoms can be due to that substance. If not then these symptoms look like of mania , which is a part of bipolar disorder. In bipolar disorder there is two part one is depression and the other is mania in which there is excessive talking, grandiosity, decrease need for sleep etc. This is like a two opposite pole Depression v/s Mania. Many times symptoms switch between this poles , or there may be mix symptoms of both the poles. Zoloft will not be helpful if person is in mania pole. Help of psychiatrist will be needed for managing this disorder. Hope this will help you. Regards.