bipolar/manic depressive? SAD? light therapy?

I have been diagnosed with depression and SAD. The doctor thinks I might have a few symptoms of bipolar(such as very high sex drive, extreme mood swings and the moods change very quickly from happy to extreme anger/rage quickly and violent dreams which I was killing people very close to me). I started taking zoloft 50mg last August and immediately noticed a significant change in my mood. I did some research and thought mabey my mood was so unbeleivably good that mabey the zoloft put me into a mania since that can happen if you take an antidepressant if you may be bipolar. But as soon as we had the time change and now it’s dark around 5:30, I am ready for bed. I can’t seem to get anything accomplished when it’s dark out, I’m tired, feel lazy and very moody again. So mabey I don’t have bipolar, it’s just SAD because I have a major change with the season changing. Do you think mabey light therapy will help me? I just need some opinions here. Does anyone else experience this?Support group?

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How do I know if I need Antidepressants?

I’ll try to make this short as possible but I think the information is relevant. Three months ago i had a health issue that obviously made me very anxious. I was put on 30 of cymbalta. Sometime in the middle of the treatment I found out that my health concern turned out to be nothing, so I stopped taking cymbalta after 23 days.

I knew better than that, but my situational anxiety alleviated it’s self so I thought I no longer neded the anti depression med. The next four days i went nutts. So I started taking it again. I started getting visual migraines which increased my anxiety so my dr. switched me to zoloft. On zoloft 50 mg then 100mg I felt awful like I was on chemo therapy or something. Dizziness blurred vision light headedness and crazy increase in anxiety and continued visual migraines. My dr wanted to try lexapro. I was growing rather frustrated with jumping from one to another cause all this started as a result of a situational depression that alleivated it’s self.

So I decided to taper off the zoloft for a month and see what would happen. No relief from the light headed feeling, blurred vision and headaches and visual migraines. None of these things I ever had before I started taking antidepressants. I’m now taking wellbutrin 150xl in the morning and have been taking it for about three weeks. Still get lightheaded and dizzy and have occasional blurred vision. I’m starting to think that I never needed these things from the start but now am afraid that I will never be able to get off of them. Does anyone have any suggestions or similar stories?

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