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Originally Posted by bluebicycle
The article is good. I just wish the author would explain what "euphoric highs" were—unless the author didn't want to write what they didn't understand. I say this because a lot of people think BP involves rapid mood swings where one minute you're happy and the next you're mad. That's the way most people "understand it," because they were never taught otherwise.
While you could possibly ultraidian cycle like that, cycling like that is not common at all. Very rare. Some people may have weird mixed states where they feel they cycle that way, but that is a mixed episode, not a manic episode. So the general population needs to know that mania lasts for at least 7 days and they need to (gently) be told what that type of episode entails.
Maybe I missed this information in the article because I skimmed it, and if so, I'm sorry. I just wish the article would be more informative in those respects, as most people reading the article probably won't bother looking up the criteria for
the disorder since they have no idea what the DSM 5 is. So if anything, it'd be nice to see the author at least mention the words "DSM 5."
This article is a good article nonetheless. It's definitely a big step forward to reducing the stigma.  Thanks for sharing! |
—-from reading posts on this forum I think a lot of us are mixed, eg type 3, including myself. With that it gets really complicated since you can even be both depressive and manic at the same time. W bipolar type 2 we don’t have full blown lose all yr money in Vegas episodes. We are often hypomanic, more mildly manic. It bothers me that people keep saying that really fast rapid cycling doesn’t happen. When you include the elements of the sneakier hypomania, I say yes it does and I have experienced it. Maybe trying to cover all the bases in this article would have scared people and made bipolar seems unmanageable, which was not the authors intent. Never fear, newbies and general public. I have mixed states, worked my whole life and earned a masters degree! Hang in there people!