Almost the same for me. I have no idea what's normal. It often seems to me that people expect a lot more for themselves feeling-wise than I do - in other words, I don't question things, and think of them as normal, whereas other people complain about the same things and find them unacceptable.

I was also un-treated for a long time and also just started a mood stabiliser again and an AD. I had depression before for about 4-5 years and thought it was totally normal. I had no idea I could be feeling better.

I still have no idea. I have days of what I now think of as hypomania (based on my recent episode) but maybe they're not? Maybe they're just happy days? I don't think so, because I have normal 'happy days' in between.

Sigh. There's an element of looking back and re-evaluating everything in light of all of this. Now that I'm on meds again and feeling better, I look back and think 'Jeez, I didn't need to be feeling like that' but I honestly thought it was all normal.