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#1
Feb 14, 2011, 01:19 PM
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Beeeep beeeeeeeeep! Sorry. I have just taken two tests on here, one was the bipolar test and the other was the manic or mania test, I scored pretty high in both (which is why I came to this forum/part), but.................... after reading up on some of the sympToms, and seeing that I don't have as many as is 'required' to diagnose True Bipolarrrrrr, seems to me as i am now veryyy confused??
I mean.. I have really truly 'episodes' out on the street when I can be truly crazy or nutty, but then when I walk away I can be 'normal' (??)-again!! Arghhh!!!!!! Oh...PLUS!!! Yep, plus!!!: I can also be extremely down, but at other times I can be VERY nutty. I don't have that 'cycle' thing, though. So I just don't know. Now I'm more confused than ever!!!!!!!!! |
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Feb 14, 2011, 01:28 PM
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I would go to a doc and get diagnosed. The tests on here are just guidance and not really to be used to diagnose. I tried some on here and they said one thing, but I wasn't what they said. lol
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#3
Feb 14, 2011, 02:12 PM
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Also if you keep a mood journal for a while, it will show a pattern and maybe you would see that what you are feeling really does follow a cycle. Sometimes in the midst of a mood episode, it is easy to miss what we are really feeling and even easier to forget it after the episode is over.
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Feb 14, 2011, 02:22 PM
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Okay, I'll try that, if I remember! |
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#5
Feb 14, 2011, 03:37 PM
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Hey Colm, nice to see you again. I'd keep a journal for a few days... I've started keeping one myself and it's helping.
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Feb 14, 2011, 04:43 PM
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Ah okay, and nice to see you again. (see.. now I've calmed down a lot. When I wrote the other post, I was ...err... as nutty and hyper as a chipmunk)
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Feb 14, 2011, 04:56 PM
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P.S. OK I need to add some extra info. I know, through talking to a Pysch Doc (more than one actually, and not at the same time)- that I have PTSD as well as depression (they have never told me which 'type' of depression, unless ptsd is also classed as a form of depression).
They- well at least ONE of them- have seen me when I have been 'Manic' or acting like I am on speed/uppers. And I know for sure that when I have filled-in their 1000-page Questionaires... that I have mentioned the manic epidsodes. BUT they have never diagonosed me with anything else apart from ptsd & depression!!!! Why? |
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#8
Feb 14, 2011, 05:05 PM
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do your ups cause you any significant problems? If not that why strive for this diagnosis?
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Feb 14, 2011, 07:47 PM
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Nope, they actually make me somewhat 'happy' (whatever that is)..... weird huh?
Oh and hey again venus. Last edited by colmnach; Feb 14, 2011 at 07:48 PM. Reason: forgot to say hello. heh. |
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#10
Feb 14, 2011, 07:59 PM
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well, if they make you happy... why view them as a symptom?
Humans aren't supposed to be flatline. We are supposed to have ups and downs. As long as one deals with them without consequences and doesn't suffer through them... what is the problem? (yes, being alive is a serious illness... but you can live with that one).
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Feb 14, 2011, 09:45 PM
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Being alive is serious, and it's always fatal.
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