Is it normal to be restless when you are depressed?

I just received this question. It's a good one. I think it encompasses many questions I get on this blog, so I will answer it in detail in the next few hours. Right now I'm working on my new chapter for my book Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder. It's on medications and will be added to the book in 2012. I am feeling some restless depression myself, but I have to get it done and I will!

Hi Julie-

When you feel a down swing coming on what does it feel like for you?  Yesterday when I started feeling "the great sadness" start to creep up on me, at first I could just feel my mood start to sink a little but then I found myself getting extremely fidgety.  I started going a little crazy in my head saying things like "what is going on? I need to figure out what has triggered this.  Is it this?  [ Read More ]


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