There is something that I keep coming across with both psychologists and psychiatrists. Many insist that there must be something to cause my moods to shift. I am finding it really upsetting. It feels like I am being treated as though I can somehow control this, or else that I am a poor judge of how my illness effects me and so my word cannot be trusted. I say over and over that nothing happens, and my episodes have always existed independent of cause for 15 years.

I am diagnosed bipolar 2. For most of the year I have been rapid cycling and in hospital twice, but I still keep getting asked over and over what is triggering my moods. I generally deal with 'real life' issues quite well and 90% of the time my moods do not relate to anything happening at all. But I still keep being asked this by (some of) the people who should understand how bipolar works the best. It is very frustrating and discouraging.