Is this a manic or hypomanic episode?

[tony2010]

Anyway i am 22 and over the last two weeks or maybe more i have been having racing thoughts like movies and music and ideas going round my head a hundred miles an hour and i can't concentrate. My speech is also quite fast and pressured at times and i can't help it. I have been feeling more energetic than usual and the other week i spent alot of money on stuff for my house i didn't need. I didn't think anything of it until a day or two later.I've only been needing 3-4 hours sleep and i have not been feeling tired. I experienced this about 8 months ago too when in as on Fluoxetine for depression and it was changed to Citalopram 20mg because the GP thought it was the pills. I have been on Citalopram 20mg ever since and. i am experincing the same thing again.

I see the psychiaitrist in a few days. I am goin to tell her what i wrote here. What do you think?

 

[nattyone]

hi
i experienced the same thing oncitalopram, what happened to me was that i was started on 20mg at the beging of the year and it was ok for a while then it stopped working so i upeped it to 50mg , then i went super happy and a bit crazy i came off the citalopram and went into full blown mania , it was awefull and extremly scarey , its when they changed my meds and put me on a mood stabilizer and anti psychotic i havent had an episode like that since.

 

[emski]

Citalopram, and other anti-depressants can induce mania and hypomania, particularly if you are already bipolar