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Originally Posted by pawn78
After a couple of decades of dealing with bipolar disorder type 1, I have figured out a very accurate mood episode identifier.
Sleep.
Depressed: sleeping 10+ hours, still tired.
Stable: sleeping 7-9 hours, normal person.
Hypomanic: sleeping 4-6 hours, wired.
Manic: sleep? Wtf is sleep?!
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This is really interesting to me. I was recently diagnosed with Bipolar I (this past Monday), and this is almost my exact sleeping pattern for as long as I can remember. Of course, I never suspected a manic episode when I couldn't sleep for days. I just thought I had bad insomnia.
When I'm depressed, I easily sleep 12–16 hours and still feel tired. I feel a little groggy with 8–9 hours of sleep, though. I don't really ever get the "normal person" feeling though—I'm either sleeping way too much and feeling tired, way too little and feeling wide awake, or not at all and just feeling... well, you know. 4–6 hours seems like my "normal," but I do feel "wired," like you describe, so don't know how "normal" that really is...