Has anyone here experienced mania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mania) while taking Nardil? Apparently it is a side effect of the medication. I'm not even necessarily referring to a full-blown manic episode, but a hypomanic episode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypomania) or something less severe than that, but still manic in quality. I actually had a manic episode myself about two weeks ago, which was technically less severe than hypomania but still manic nonetheless. I've never had anything before like it, and it was a fascinating experience.
In a nutshell: Nardil has almost brought me 100% remission from my major depressive disorder symptoms after suffering from MDD for about six years, and I think it was my such utter relief that the MDD was over which precipitated the manic episode. Basically, I was very eager to show my parents (who I still live with) that I had resolved my depression, so I started cleaning my house like crazy - dusting, organizing, wiping counters and walls, etc. - to prove this to them. This would surprise them greatly, as I would never do this in a million years during the time I was depressed - commonly I would just be asleep all day, get up at 4 pm, stay on the computer until 6 am when I would then go back to sleep, etc.... many of us know the drill here.
So I started intensely cleaning everything like mad, for hours and hours on end without breaks. I remember getting extremely excited, to the point where I couldn't sleep at night after a day's work of cleaning, so I would just get up and clean throughout the night. I also remember feeling fairly intense euphoria at specific points. I also started getting insane thoughts. For example, I started dreaming up these fantastic renovation ideas requiring a great amount of labour and costing over a thousand dollars (money I didn't have, except on credit), such as replacing old sinks and taps, and buying a new, better ceiling fan and toaster oven for the kitchen. I was going to preform all the renovations overnight as a surprise for my family in the morning.
The whole point of this was to show to my family that I had gotten better, as they have been quite concerned over my state of mind during the last several years (I have a close relationship with my parents). Of course, none of these plans were realistic. They were too expensive and labour-intensive. I did eventually realize that I was having some sort of crazy episode - by this time I hadn't slept for almost 48 hours - and I found the concept of mania on Wikipedia and realized that I must be going through something like that. So I immediately came to my senses, forced myself to drop all my plans, realized I was feeling physically sick, went to my room, took a sleeping pill and forced myself to sleep.
Since then I've had no more manic episodes, but I find that I still have to beat back manic thoughts more than occasionally. The mania episode I described was at 60 mg/day (this is after about a month of Nardil) and the manic thoughts went away after some time at that dose, but have resurfaced lately, as I have recently jumped to 75 mg/day.
Does anyone relate to mania on Nardil? I'm also interested to hear mania stories in general.
In a nutshell: Nardil has almost brought me 100% remission from my major depressive disorder symptoms after suffering from MDD for about six years, and I think it was my such utter relief that the MDD was over which precipitated the manic episode. Basically, I was very eager to show my parents (who I still live with) that I had resolved my depression, so I started cleaning my house like crazy - dusting, organizing, wiping counters and walls, etc. - to prove this to them. This would surprise them greatly, as I would never do this in a million years during the time I was depressed - commonly I would just be asleep all day, get up at 4 pm, stay on the computer until 6 am when I would then go back to sleep, etc.... many of us know the drill here.
So I started intensely cleaning everything like mad, for hours and hours on end without breaks. I remember getting extremely excited, to the point where I couldn't sleep at night after a day's work of cleaning, so I would just get up and clean throughout the night. I also remember feeling fairly intense euphoria at specific points. I also started getting insane thoughts. For example, I started dreaming up these fantastic renovation ideas requiring a great amount of labour and costing over a thousand dollars (money I didn't have, except on credit), such as replacing old sinks and taps, and buying a new, better ceiling fan and toaster oven for the kitchen. I was going to preform all the renovations overnight as a surprise for my family in the morning.
The whole point of this was to show to my family that I had gotten better, as they have been quite concerned over my state of mind during the last several years (I have a close relationship with my parents). Of course, none of these plans were realistic. They were too expensive and labour-intensive. I did eventually realize that I was having some sort of crazy episode - by this time I hadn't slept for almost 48 hours - and I found the concept of mania on Wikipedia and realized that I must be going through something like that. So I immediately came to my senses, forced myself to drop all my plans, realized I was feeling physically sick, went to my room, took a sleeping pill and forced myself to sleep.
Since then I've had no more manic episodes, but I find that I still have to beat back manic thoughts more than occasionally. The mania episode I described was at 60 mg/day (this is after about a month of Nardil) and the manic thoughts went away after some time at that dose, but have resurfaced lately, as I have recently jumped to 75 mg/day.
Does anyone relate to mania on Nardil? I'm also interested to hear mania stories in general.