hi doses of zoloft-manic behavr? - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Message Board

skylin · 07-12-2006, 07:43 AM

hi all. i'm back. i posted a bit bacck, and got good resspons bout mmy 21-yr old son. thankss TONS.
update.......
he was put on a ceiling dose of zoloft whn i bbrot him home frm the hospital aftr he cut himslf(SI). this levld off the cutting issue, so far............
he has desided, AFTR by his own admissn,

to go to NY to meet a 33yr old who suffrs frm PTSD too and thay are gettng marryd. like NOW. all this aftr the zoloft. thay 'met' on a PTSD bord. thats not the part that freekd me out, tho at all. i'lm all for online dating. but DATE alredy. lol the honeymoon and justis of the peace were bookd befor the bus ticket to NY was bot, thay hadnt evn met fase-to-fase yet. THAT was the part that freekd me out.
he's old enuf to do what he's gona do. i'm jus askin if anybody has herd of zoloft causing this kind of behavr on the hi-est dose. he swares it hasnt done anythng. i'v seen othrwise. it DID help the cutting, no new ones, he was kinda nockd on his butt for a bit sleepng more, he ate more whch was a good tthng. and the psych told me she woodnt evn let him out of the hospitl unless he wasnt going home alone. talk bout a rock and a hard plase.

thanks TONS for advise.
cokes all arownd!

sara

GatsbyLuvr1920 · 07-12-2006, 10:09 PM

SSRI's, of which Zoloft is one, are notorious for inducing manic episodes in those who are already bipolar and are only taking an SSRI without a mood stabilizer, and they also are known to cause manic episodes in those who were only suspected to have unipolar depression. However, if he's sleeping more, I highly doubt that he's manic, or even hypomanic, as diminished need for sleep is one of the key symptoms. Is he talking fast and too much, to the point where you can't understand him? Is he having racing thoughts? Is he having "flight of ideas," where he jumps from topic to topic while speaking, with no coherence? Is he feeling overconfident, to the point where he feels as if he's on "top-of-the-world" and can do anything? Is he hypersexual? Is he having grandiose delusions and/or hallucinations? If so, then this is most likely mania. If he's not having thes majority of these symptoms, most notably the first three, then it's highly unlikely that he's manic...
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