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Originally Posted by BirdDancer
Hi bluebicycle. I think anger can be indicative of a mood state, particularly if anger isn't a more constant state for you (as if you had intermittent explosive disorder or similar). I don't believe one must have all symptoms of depression or hypomania/mania to be experiencing a mood state. I think that sometimes the "mixed features" are an odd mix of only a couple symptoms, or a person is having "mood lability", which may only include one or a couple symptoms."Mood lability" is common in bipolar disorder.
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Yeah, I'm not angry most of the time, nor do I have frequent short outbursts (e.g., in the case of intermittent explosive disorder). I just happen to have been irritable for many days straight and have no clear explanation as to why, other than I stopped my antipsychotic.
I don't know if my therapist was trying to say I was (hypo)manic or what. Or depressed. I don't know. But I do know that I normally don't go smashing things, damaging walls, kicking things, throwing things, etc.. It's been several years since I've done that.