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Originally Posted by monsieurben
It's not unusual for me to try to do many projects at the same time for sure. I am really into personality psychology and this is definitely a trait of mine, I just felt that it was a bit odd. From what I've studied, taking on many projects is associated with manic symptoms, however it is described in a way where a person is delusional, not simply idealistic or has many goals.
As far as the other things like suspiciousness, grandiosity, and impulsiveness, the only one I can see for myself is being impulsive, but for the other ones it's harder for me to identify in my life. I grew up in a cult like environment so I can understand suspiciousness in that specific environment, but I was very surprised with grandiosity because if I were to struggle with self esteem, it would be more with low self esteem, not narcissism.
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If you see the goals and projects as a personality thing I am guessing it is consistent. I could be misunderstanding though. I get that way when hypo or manic so it is episodic(I really hate goals and normally am not someone who wants to do much never mind more than one thing at a time) and it leads me to take on too many things at once with no experience. I guess that could be classified as delusional because it is far from realistic and then I burn out and am not able to finish any of them.
Here is an example: I have demolished rooms unfinished and jackhammered holes in our basement floor from 2 years ago and my husband had to really push back hard to stop me from starting anything else when I did that.
The traits the pdoc seen are written in a very weird way. As if you showed certain things and they filled in the rest with what other people with those traits might be like. Not sure about any of that
Bipolar NOS is pretty much what you described. Some symptoms but not fitting exactly into bipolar 1 or 2. What the pdoc wrote, symptoms consistent but not meeting full criteria.