Thread: Am I Bipolar?
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Old May 02, 2015, 04:22 AM
Anonymous45023
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Originally Posted by Trippin2.0 View Post
Sorry,but idk anything about a correlation between BP and what you've described.
I don't either. The thing about symptoms is that they're uncharacteristic of a person. To illustrate, descriptions of hypomanic me vs normal me.

Hypomanic me: Shop a bunch and spend a lot of money buying ridiculous "so very much not me" things.
Normal me: hate shopping, pretty frugal, have a well-defined style

Hypomanic me: I'll think I'm super-person-- throw my hands in the air and shout that I'm a genius. And hilariously funny. And should have been a race car driver, because I'm ripping down mountain passes shouting how I could kick Mario Andretti's azz.
Normal me: well, not like that. i mean, I'm a good driver, but don't spend my time thinking how I could kick M.A.'s azz. Lol.

Hypomanic me: very social. Talking like crazy even with people I can't stand. Loud. Will commandeer a gathering. Say inappropriate things. Be pretty obnoxious, really. Like a 6 year old on a sugar rush.
Normal me: very shy, pretty socially awkward, generally quiet. Seriously, I barely even talk to people I work with.

Hypomanic me: decide that giving myself a drastic haircut at 1 am with dollar store scissors (and no skill at it whatsoever, but you know, seeing how I'm a genius...) is a REALLY GOOD idea.
Normal me: would not

You get the idea.

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Originally Posted by Cychotic View Post
...Then Cymbalta for 6 months and I felt like a god. ...I thought I could live without the Cymbalta but this morning I woke up crying. I felt alone on the planet. Like somebody abandoned me on earth and left and now I am all alone.
I have heard that coming off Cymbalta can be really rough. Maybe it's something to do with that(?)

P.s. Apologies for the grammatical nightmare this is.
Thanks for this!
Cychotic