Trippin - How do I know?

Well happiness isn't disordered for one, it just is, and it is without consequence.

Agreed. Now that I've worked my way through this thread. It sometimes "just is" - I'm going to have to disregard my mania here (that's just for me, personally.

Two, just plain happy doesn't bring along friends like the long list of symptoms (hypo)mania does.

Agree again. My depression repels people away.

It's easy to pathologize our every emotion once we get slapped with this dx. I think everyone has fallen into that trap at one point or another on this journey.

I question a lot. Not necessarily just emotions, in fact for me it's possibly symptom about 4 out a myriad of symptoms I'd be looking at when hypo

Me? If its not negatively impacting my life, it gets no psych label, simple.

My emotions are all over sometimes and unfortunately it impacts on my life.

But that's just me, I prefer to simplify and give BP as little credit and power as possible.

I respect that.