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Old Feb 03, 2020, 08:43 AM
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A: Yes, big-time. I do not eat at all for days when depressed or manic, for different reasons.

Q: Over all the years of your illness, which mood state have you spent the most time in?
Even though I have bipolar type 1, and have had many doozy full blown manic episodes (some with psychosis), if I calculated the time, my answer would be hypomanias. Prior to my worst episodes, I would be in hypomanic states for months on end before reaching full mania. Or sometimes, I even returned to stable or depression without necessarily reaching full mania. Those sustained hypomanias were still problematic. My psychiatrist has even said in the past that mild hypomania is my baseline. I'm not sure that is true, but I can certainly appear as such for long periods. That's where I most like to be, mood-wise.

Q: Name something (project/accomplished) that seemed mostly possible as a result of a past hypomania/mania of yours.
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