Bipolar Disorder, Weird Nightmares

auberon · Gold Member Joined: 07 Aug 2006 Posts: 386

Hello! I need to hear what would be the most effective treatment for bipolar disorder accompanied with weird nightmares. My wife suffered serious postpartum depression which turned into bipolar disorder diagnosed 2 years after her labor. I am already having hard time coping with her illness for the meds she is taking seems not to work properly- she has regular daily doses of antidepressants and Lithium which is suppose to deal with her mood changes but they don't seems to affect those weird nightmares that usually comes along with her bipolar disorder symptoms that is those weird nightmares are particularly present whenever she has mood changes and when it happens she acts weird-talk and yell on somebody or even running from some creatures chasing her. What could this be and how this bipolar disorder and weird nightmares are to be treated the best?

mendy · Gold Member Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 468

Sometimes patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder happens to have some extra problems with hallucinations both visual and auditory and I think that this is what your wife problem is also and that is where those weird nightmares comes from so basically those weird nightmares are just one of the forms in which hallucinations may appear. I have about the same situation in my family one of my cousins is diagnosed with bipolar disorder and after we have reported those weird nightmares he frequently has he was also diagnosed with some sort of schizophrenia for hallucinations are actually main symptoms of this psychotic disease so it may easily be your wife also has severe psychotic seizures and I think she should also be taking some antipsychotic drugs along with drugs she is already taking.

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