Thread: Lack of Insight
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Old Mar 15, 2014, 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Curiosity77 View Post
Lack of insight is not one of the DSM diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorder, but it is often a feature. I tend to know that something is wrong with me during an episode, but i don't appreciate the severity until i am out of it.

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Exactly. I've been going a little ape**** like I do pretty much every year around this time, but didn't think it was BP-related until several of my friends and my husband said something like "You're ramping up." I don't FEEL like I'm ramping up, I'm just so stressed that I feel like running away and starting over again fresh someplace else. I won't, of course, but I do want to get a job that doesn't require more intellectual capacity than I have, I want a more affordable place to live and I want less hassle and a less-complicated life. I want an authentic life, and this ain't it. Maybe I am talking crazy, I don't know.
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