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Hi Dan, I can confirm your observations and I thank you for them. Not a depressive crash, but a sudden and totally unexpected intensification of my normal emotions over the last few days, on 21mg/day of desiccated thyroid. It was quite obvious from the inside, thanks to your warning. No hyper symptoms at all. I've been watching for them.
I contacted a friend with some experience of psychiatric diagnosis, and he and I agree that I'm showing some of the symptoms of a mild bipolar disorder. I may have caused it, or that may have been the problem all along. The down phase looks like CFS, apparently, and is quite common. But who knows?
He's advised me to stop obsessing about this problem, and I'm going to try.
For obvious reasons this should be my last comment on the matter for a while!
Sorry to waste everyone's time. Pray for me, those of you who believe that it will help.
Once I'm completely sure that I'm capable of thinking straight, I might come back and re-read what I've written to see how much sense it makes. How embarrassing to go mad in public.
Thank you all. Talk about reasoning under uncertainty!
In case anyone is worried, my attorney (who really really should know, and who spotted me going off the rails at almost the same time that I did) advises me that I am no longer any more mad than usual, and gives me permission once again to contemplate the question of the thyroid.
I still have a feeling that I am experiencing my emotions full strength for the first time in ten years, and I have forgotten how to do that. Another bloody skill to learn.
Personally, I have found not thinking about this to be a most relaxing hobby, and I intend to do more of it in future.
I have found great solace in sport, history, literary theory, ancient mythology, and popular music. And much unexpected wisdom there!
Those of you who prayed, thank you. It appears to have worked.
Those of you who did not, well, I wouldn't have bothered either. But were you scared to try the experiment? If so, and you did not, you are far from the way. As are we all.