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Originally Posted by hamster-bamster
I was right. Depression is not necessary. Wikipedia:
Bipolar disorder or bipolar affective disorder (historically known as manic-depressive disorder) is a psychiatric diagnosis for a mood disorder in which people experience disruptive mood swings that encompass a frenzied state known as mania (or hypomania) and, usually, symptoms of depression.
Bipolar disorder is defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated energy levels, cognition, and mood with or without one or more depressive episodes. |
This is really strange because most peple I know with bipolar are mostly depressed and only elevated sometimes. With me I am all over the place really have not been able to track a real pattern yet. Im thinking I have a bit of seasonal depression but as far as mania or hypo mainia it comes and goes as it pleases. Less often here lately it may be the new med abilify. But still all in all over my experience with bipolar I have been more on the depressed side than I have spent manic or hypo manic. Wondering if maybe I have clinical depression as well as bipolar.
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Bipolar 1
OCD
BPD
Anxiety with panic disorder
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