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Originally Posted by BlackSheep79
I feel like my BP is different than everyone else's. Ive noticed this since I joined PC. It seems that a lot of you experience significant periods of depression. I tend to go thru a lot of hypomania. I have maybe every 6-8 weeks where I have 1-3 days where I go thru a depression, but it is nothing like you all describe. I just have no energy, hopeless, guilt, don't want to face the world. I might miss a day or two, I kick myself in the *** and put the fake face on and go to work and then I seem to come out of it. I did go thru a mixed episode last March, that sucked big time. I thought I was going to die from lack of sleep. I suffer from OCD and GAD also so I don't know if this plays into this.
Does anyone else hardly experience depression and mostly deals with the manic end?
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This has been my experience as well. I have had some depression, but not nearly as much as most of the people with bipolar I have met. Sometimes I have crying spells, but my new AD has nipped that in the bud. I'm usually a pretty happy girl. It's when I get
too happy that the problems begin. I mostly experience occasional mania and sometimes a mixed episode. But I've never had a depression where I felt I could not get out of bed. I have heard so many others that suffer that way and it makes me feel so bad for them.
I'm glad to know that I am not the only one that experiences BP the way I do.