Mood Swings but not Manic

This website is about  “depression plus”:  more than plain depression. Weirder or more “up and down” — but not manic. If that sounds like your experience, your depression might be in the middle of the Mood Spectrum:  not bipolar, but not just depressed. More variable, more complex. 

For many such people, antidepressants are not the answer: they can help, for a while, but can also make things worse:  agitated, anxious, irritable, insomniac…

This information is free.  There are no strings. I wrote it for my patients, but over a decade, people from all over the world have been here.

Start with these two pages.

Diagnosis:  mid- Mood Spectrum depression

Treatment: from non-medication options to pills

You can also use the Table of Contents or the Search spyglass, up there to your right, to tour over 250 pages of information.  I hope you’ll find something useful here.  (If your inner skeptic is saying “who is this guy and why’s he doing this?” , that’s good.  See About This Site above.)

   Jim Phelps, M.D.
Author of:

• A Spectrum Approach to Mood Disorders (Norton, 2016)
• Bipolar, Not So Much (Norton, 2016)
• Why Am I Still Depressed? (McGraw-Hill, 2006)