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Originally Posted by PoorPrincess
pawn wrote:
My main symptoms of my mixed episode was irritability, which is the whole reason I got a doctor in the first place.
I don't get it.
If one is diagnosed 'bipolar', either I or II, and you happen to experience irritability, an ordinary emotion, in one of your ordinary days ... that gets labelled as 'mixed episode' ?
Ordinary irritable now constitutes 'an episode'?
Good grief, Charlie Brown.
When did 'feeling irritable' get kicked out of the legitimate 'normal' range of emotions?
Psychobabble labeling seems to have gotten far fetched.
I am sorry that this is so for you.
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wow, i guess you didn't really read my post. the "mixed episode" diagnosis is just a label, but it was from my extreme mood swings, one day way up, several days irritable as all hell, then ok, then happy, then irritable as hell again for awhile. I couldn't even distinguish my mood from depression or mania, it was just a mess!
Do you really think i sought and pay a Pdoc just because I am mildly irritable? No, my irritability was slowly destroying my marriage, my family life and my work life.
Good grief, don't judge without knowing the whole story.
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Oh yeah, and I have been diagnosed as bipolar 1, for 17 years, and been hospitalized for it twice with extreme mania. And my Pdoc has been doing psychiatry for over 30 years, and is one of the highest rated Pdoc's in the area, and I will trust his diagnosis over your opinion any day.
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