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Old Jan 13, 2012, 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Secretum View Post
Here! Kind of...I have "double bipolar"-co-occuring cyclothymia (which causes daily mood changes from depression to hypomania to various mixed states) and bipolar II (which we all know about. For me, it causes longer periods of severe depression, hypomania, and possibly mixed hypomania). It took me forever to figure out my cycling pattern, because I did notice the ultradian shifts, but I knew that I also had week-month long times when those daily swings were superimposed on a single mood. Double bipolar is the bipolar analogue of "double depression"-co-occuring dysthymia and major depression.
Thanks for sharing this - I had never heard of double bipolar. I was under the impression that cyclothymia was one point on the bipolar spectrum (sometimes referred to as "bipolar lite") rather than something that could be a comorbid condition.
Thanks for this!
Secretum