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Old Sep 18, 2013, 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by emomom View Post
Well, as this is a mood thing, let me make a small analogy. If your SO likes to tease you by poking at you, if you have had good sleep and are in a good mood you can laugh it off. And if you slept like crap and are in a bad mood that same action is likely to end up causing an argument. So the mood state does color the reaction to the stimulus.
But you could say the same thing about someone who is not bipolar. Bipolar is not about the mood itself, except in the case of extreme depression or extreme mania. Bipolar is about the wild mood swings. Like I said above, my wife can piss me off and it doesn't have anything to do with bipolar. It just means I am in a mood that is likely to cause me to be annoyed. I would probably have been in that mood even if I wasn't bipolar.
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