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Originally Posted by Wild Coyote
The attributes described also describe 75% of the maternal side of my family.
They seem to live with unipolar hypomania. It's exhausting to be around them for very long. One uncle is very much like Clinton, extremely successful in every endeavor with a long history of personal indiscretions.
My psychiatrist says it's very possible for people to live with unipolar hypomania (and/or mania), without depression. While this puts them somewhere on the spectrum, they do not live with bipolar illness.
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Very interesting, because I have a lot of family members the same way....where they do not seem to ever meet full criteria for depression, but they seem chronically hypomanic. I even have a few relates who seem to be full-blown manic at times, but they do not get depressive episodes. I always wondered what they would be diagnosed with, unless maybe some of them do have occasional depressions, but it's not as apparent.