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I have bp2. I consider it milder than bp1 because I know that I'll never be losing total touch with reality - that's just not something I consider a risk. I know that I won't totally destroy my life in the grips of a mania.
My depressions? Yes, they are hell. They are soul-crushingly hellish sometimes and I almost didn't survive some of them.
But I can hide all of that from others. You can't hide the manias. So I consider what I experience to be more mild than someone with bp1.
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"The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things. Of shoes, of ships, of sealing wax, of cabbages, of kings! Of why the sea is boiling hot, of whether pigs have wings..."
"I have a problem with low self-esteem. Which is really ridiculous when you consider how amazing I am.
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