This topic is so incredibly helpful, thank you for discussing it. I have been trying to "figure out" for myself WTH I am experiencing. I suspect I've been misdiagnosed for a long time, partly due to my previous desire to hide and pretend everything was fine, but then also due to not having a "language" that I could talk about this stuff with professionals.

These definitions have clarified for me that, in the discussion of bipolar 2, I have constant ping ponging mixed episodes that are UBER (ultra ultra wouldn't even cover it! ) rapid. Daily, during the day, sometimes for longer periods.

However...it has recently become clear that I may be dealing with Dissociative Identity Disorder (co-morbid or not, remains to be discovered)...which, for me, explains so much more about why/how I "switch" from different moods so quickly and distinctly.

Becoming "aware" of this DID probability seems to have almost "kicked up" the ping ponging...so it is all quite confusing. My new psych is changing up my meds a little, I have a new trauma therapist who will help me with the dissociation, and I have several concurrent major medical issues requiring medication and hospital sedation and procedures...so there is a hot mess up in here.

But I am very grateful to get some understanding of the variances....number one, to see it is OK that I don't fit neatly into a box. And number two...to give me some words I can start putting to what until now has felt like a jumbled mess in a dryer one day and an articulate strong leader in the next. Agh!

Thanks for being here...

FearLess47