I only ask because mine has been so bad recently. I'm 56. My hypomania last year was so intense it felt like i was another person and i wonder about DID. Then i had a crisis in October with anxiety so acute i was frozen with fear and had trouble eating and could only breathe shallowly. I'm mildly depressed now but i'm so grateful the anxiety has passed i don't really mind. I'm devastated at all the foolish financial decisions i made during my hypomania and ashamed at how horny i was, so embarrassing.

I had heard in my IRL support group that bipolar gets worse with age but i dismissed that, thinking surely you get better at managing the episodes. Now i'm not so sure.

Was this just a bad year, or a sign of things to come?