ForMyWife

[here_i_am]

My wife appears to me to have been addicted to Adderol and Zoloft. She became uncontrolable one day and I had to call 911. Within 4 days, she made a credible suicide threat and shortly after that I got her to go to a local hospital for an evaluation. She was admitted to a locked psych unit were the initial diagnosis was Bipolar I, manic. She was taken off of Adderol and Zoloft and put on Abilify(daily) and Seroquel(as needed). She balked, made another suicide threat, then had an ingestion that resulted in a trip to the hospital and another admission to a psych unit. Her denail began to fade, and she actually started taking the Abilify and Seroquel. Once she felt better, she got back on the Adderoll/Zoloft rollercoaster and off the Abilify and Serouquel. She is also bulemic and purges after every meal. She's been to the hospital 3x for extremely low potassium (sweats, palpitations, nasea and diziness). My question is how the Adderol and Zoloft interact with the Bipoar I condition and the bulemia. Thanks.

[hell1971]

You sound like a very concerned and patient husband, I can only suggest you book yourself an appointment to her or another physciatrist so that you can understand what is going on and come up with a plan of action with or without her for her own sake. Now that I am more stable and my newley diagnosed BP is not as serious as your wifes but I have given my husband permission to intervene if he thinks I am going into mania as I do not wish to be were I have just been, I can now see that I was heading to hospital or worse. Has she accepted her diagnosis and does she see a regular physciatrist?
take care and I hope you and your wife are ok, this is all new too me and thats all I can say

[monkeyc]

Adderal for a BP1..

Jesus you just have to love doctors.  Let me guess - this was not prescribed by a psychiatrist was it?

Adderal and Ritalin are VERY addictive drugs and are handed out like lollies by doctors.  As ILADVOCATE said these will both cause mania and without a mood stabiliser they will almost certainly cause it - she needs a Mood Stabiliser and effective psychiatric care which she appears not to have right now.  

Im afraid that you are aware what is going to happen eventually if she does not get this help, she's had 2 admissions and 1 suicide attempt plus 1 episode of ideration - eventually she will succeed if this cannnot be arrested.

[ILADVOCATE]

Adderal is for ADHD. Zoloft is an anti-depressent. Both will worsen mania. Are you sure she is addicted or that they just set off a manic episode. Of course only a psychiatrist can judge but in my opinion she needs a mood stabilizer. Abilify and Seroquel are antipsychotics but they function as working mood stabilizers. Why did she go off them if they were working? I'm not sure exactly what works on eating disorders as those are hard to treat but I had a cousin with anorexia and she was stabilized on Risperdal and it helped stopped this. That is an antipsychotic. I think she was on the right medication and her psychiatrist should have her stay on the antipsychotics unless they have some reason otherwise and the other two medications were only worsening the mania unless they state she needs them for some reason.