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Originally Posted by melissa.recovering
...My personal experience has been that my depressive and manic episodes aren't caused by any particular event or thing... External events do not affect me in such a big way that it would lead to a full-blown episode. A day or two of feeling depressed, perhaps, but nothing more...
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This describes my experience too. External
generally creates a short-lived flip, not an episode.
Exception seems to be prolonged heavy stress. At least that is what some of my depressions would seem attributable to -- it might also be that the stress is exacerbating what was already going on, rather than causing it per se. If it's not sudden, it's really hard to say. (I've tried hard to parse this out this particular year, so something I've really pondered.) My first huge depression came out of nowhere -- I was having a really good time, no stress to speak of, even had a few friends(!). Then BOOM! Perplexed the heck out of me.