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Originally Posted by AlwaysChanging2
Borderline mood swings are more a less a triggered response to situations whereas bipolar mood swings automatically happens. There are others that will argue though that there are no other mood swings other than rapid cycling when it comes to bipolar cycling.
But along with borderline switchy mood swings is the borderline thinking: all or nothing thinking, fear of abandonment....
I live with ultra-rapid cycles that are automatic in nature that you can set a clock with...every 10 days a complete set of cycles full circle.
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So I guessed right about the difference.
OK, my stuff doesn't fit either very well - I have short episodes (less than a day) usually in every 1-2 weeks that are triggered by not sleeping enough + by emotional triggers so it's reactive in this way. It's usually not about abandonment issues, I just cycle between unregulated intense emotionality in these episodes and between unemotional baseline
I did find I was able to fully disable-avoid the episodes by purposefully staying detached and ensuring I slept enough. But that default detachment is not exactly my goal either. I've had too much of that since the end of my teenage years.
So it's kinda very black and white. Zero refined regulation - I either do the too much detachment or I let myself have the emotionality but then it gets too intense.
Thoughts?