I feel anxiety and depression/loneliness internally VERY strong.
The only way I can get the emotion and severity across to others, is either by me journalling and sharing, or sometimes I am brave enough to talk to my friend face to face.
I am MUCH better at writing than talking.

I very rarely experience hypomania. I am BP2. This makes me think it would be easy enough to be on minimal meds. But it's the depression that becomes crippling, hence we have added more and more mood stabilisers. Well, Lamotrigine and Sodium Valproate at the moment, as well as Seroquel and Wellbutrin.

I also battle to focus and be very productive. On weekends I come across as lazy and at work I often cannot get stuck into anything, just spend a large portion of the day on the net.