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Old Apr 28, 2015, 07:46 AM
Anonymous45023
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Originally Posted by tentoedsloth View Post
...But then it also sounds a lot like hypomania when I quit it all and believe I can be really happy without people. I don't need them, or so the thoughts I remember go. And I feel ecstatic about that realization.

Then I get really unhappy about whichever choice I've made, until--Pop! Of course! I've been living the wrong way, for me! Changing to the right way will fix everything!(sigh)
Relate? To some of what you describe, yes. To this part, (and to some others) no. I'm really not much of a goal oriented person, life-wise. I basically got derailed at the point where the bipolar started in earnest (20). I didn't really know anything of BP and went undiagnosed for many years afterwards, so it wasn't like, "Oh no! I've got BP, I give up!" Lol. It's just the way it went.

My sociability goes in syncronicity with my state. Up= uncharacteristically sociable. For instance, I'll yap like old pals with people I normally don't even like at all(!) Heck, I'll talk to anyone and everyone! (More like talk at them really really fast with no verbal "gatekeeper" while talking about different things all at once. "Normal" spans = very shy and not very adept at social interaction, but no particular feeling of pressure to be sociable, nor to hide in a cave. Depressed = totally socially isolate.

Religion. Went through some uncharacteristic spans
there, yup. No comment. One real WTH one in particular I prefer to think of as having "infiltrated" for observation and study. True enough. But not 100% Full disclosure.

Work. Well, jobs. 39 I can remember. Got bored, quit if on verge of being fired, butted heads, moved etc.

Moving. Somewhere in the 25 - 30x range. Including major distances and like 6 cross country. One involved saying out of the blue, "let's sell the house <a dump we could barely afford> and move to xyz! Xyz was 3,000 miles away and we'd never even visited it(!) It seemed so reasonable! Sound a wee bit manic-y? High correlation with the big moves, that mode, yup.

I don't really think in terms of making disconnection, not needing people, true calling or whatever. Something will latch onto my mind and off I go! When I go out of it, it'll usually just be a matter of my disappearing "thanks" to depression. No sense of some sort of triumph, purpose or even intention.
Thanks for this!
tentoedsloth