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Originally Posted by Ellie_jo
I guess what i mean is more if you have issues remembering things that happened during those times. I was trying to describe that span of time to my t and I realized that I couldn't remember a lot of things. Mostly the connecting bits. Like I remember doing one thing then something else but I don't know what happened between the two.it just seems fuzzy and separate,
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This is interesting as today I had this conversation with my therapist. I have been diagnosed for 10 years now, the first 8 were pretty horrific, I was having episodes twice a year that lasted around 3-4 months before I was able to come back to stability (spike to mania, come down to mixed, crash into depression). At any rate, I feel like I lost time, that there are whole periods of time during those years that I just don't remember. Some of it might have been a medicine affect, seroquel had me rather zombie-ized for quite some time.
I think it's probably something that does happen to a lot of us. There's also a cognitive element to having bipolar, where even between episodes, our brains don't process the same as a neurotypical person. We might be stable but we still have bipolar illness. This is something I have tried to research and is what brought me to PC initially, to ask this question of other members.