[LogicandJeans]

Just interested in your experiences or if you can point in the direction of more information. Thanks. Seems like most information on Bipolar focuses on the standard type with just the high ups, then the low downs...

[sugahorse1]

I have rapid cycling bipolar II. All. Can say is that when one is not stable, this is not fun!!

It's very important to have a strong routine in place to try and draw out the cycles. Finding the right meds is also very tricky, but it can be done.
What else can I help you with?

[Odee]

It seems to me that there's still an incredible amount of variation within 'rapid cycling.'

Then there's this whole 'mixed state' deal. I'm convinced I'm either 'mixed' most of the time or because my 'ups' are anxious despair that I just can't tell when I cycled from one negative state to another.

[Moose72]

I was told that borderline personality disorder had rapid cycling. I don't have BPD or rapid cycling, but they were trying to say I might at the hospital the other day.

[Moodmuse]

Me, and it sucks! One min good the next p'od

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[LogicandJeans]

I'm not on meds. I had a bad experience on them when I was put on them for depression. They made me so manic and with really low downs too which made me suicidal. I was really weary of going back on them... but I don't know if it would be different with the mood stabiliser drug as well. Has anyone found that meds help?

Some days I find it so hard to think. My thoughts just race and it's hard to grab onto things and remember anything... Then sometimes I'm really angry for no reason really... And for short periods of time I slip into a bad depression and it feels like it's been there for ages and I've felt like that for ages, but then I get out of it and everything is good and I just stop seeing psychologists and think everything is fine again and I'm all good.

[Clinte89]

I do and at times it cal be terrible, one minuet fine the next off the chart in either direction. Meds have helped alot with these problems. As well as ect I think that has done the most good for me anyway.

[Bipolar mom]

I am diagnosed rapid cycling bipolar 2, and I have a lot of mixed episodes.

I'm un medicated right now, though I'm sure I should be. I had a lot of trouble finding meds that's worked.

I've had this diagnosis for 10 years now, I've always had trouble finding information on it.

I agree with sugahorse, a strong routine is good. When I have one I am much more stable then when I don't.

[~Christina]

Standard type of Bipolar??? hahaha yeah right

Everyone's Bipolar is different. So very very different.

I never get the " Yay WOW!!! I feel great and I can do anything I want" kind ups .. I tend to get the angry,irratated, annoyed,can't sit still kinda of "mania"

I'm Bipolar I . I do know if I take an AD I will flip right into an ugly mean mania in about 72 hours( learned that the hard way)

My T , Pdoc and I have discussed at length whether I am rapid cycling or mixed state .. Its a tossup, It use to real bother me, wanting to know exactly what it is, now I really don't care, either way won't change how I treat or react to it.

This site has been a personal life saver for me. The friends I have made here are priceless.

[BipolaRNurse]

Although my pdoc and I haven't yet discussed it, I suspect my BP is of the rapid-cycling variety because I've had multiple mood episodes this year alone. I think they're less intense now because I'm medicated, but they still happen.

The people I feel really sorry for are the ones with ultradian cycling---their mood changes several times within the same DAY. Talk about a roller-coaster.......I don't think I'd have the energy to keep up such an exhausting existence.

[Ash0198]

I have bipolar 2 and my ups are irritability and anger....but I can also feel great dispair which bring on anxiety. For the last four months I have been up and down from normal to depressed. But I also get psychosis (and this is where I question my diagnosis) I halucinate and have so called delusional thinking. I have just learnt that structure in life is a must!!!! I make plans or lists of the things I must or want to get done during the day. And when I have all of them ticked off it makes me feel so good! Haha . I also journal...I write down everything! Lists and how I'm feeling to things I learn during an outpatient day program I'm currently attending. The lists of things to do are like mini goals. If u start of small then the big goals will seem very achievable . . Hope this helps some what . Good luck to u and everyone else!

Originally Posted by LogicandJeans

Just interested in your experiences or if you can point in the direction of more information. Thanks. Seems like most information on Bipolar focuses on the standard type with just the high ups, then the low downs...

there aint' alot of information I agree with that....
only the rapid cyclist can provide the information....
most who do the "typical" informing are so good at it just because they aint' rapid cyclists...therefore there is not much information. ...the medical world...

ok first up...lets forget about calendars and clocks and tomorrow!

lets look around carefully in the meantime and panic alot about everything when I'm crap down and suddenly go somewhere in my brain because I smelled something...saw something likely heard something vaguely internal familiar,...internal intoxications from another world? the rapid cyclist is an energetic combination of volatile impulses, magical abilities, clown phantoms...electric fatigue and diabolical sadness!

hellish moments of total submersion and glorious moments of complete immersion!..and too often!....
welcome to breakdown land

he/she stumbles and leaps ...crumbles and creeps...sneaks!....just to get by

rapid cyclist...in the sunshine airborne unafraid ....then burnt bad can't find no shade!

the human day incorporates the night too...broken up into emotionally edible quantities and each is either an immediate failure or an expected achievement and the distinction is finality and alienation from the mind during the brief lapses of reason.

dm

I probably overdid that

[polar_bear1]

I´ve been rapid cycling/ in a mixed state for almost a year now... with anxiety and panic attacks as well...
Not one day off, no balance, good days and bad ones...mostly bad ones.
exemple for mixed state: hyper and anxious in the morning, irrateble, angry....a bit depressed during the afternoon and then back to hyper in the evening with racing thoughts and can´t fall a sleep. Rapid cycling- same thing but one day hyper, next depressed or few days hyper and some depressed.
It sux. I would give my left arm to get some days off, days of balance...

[Beachboxer]

Hi I'm on meds so at a low grade depr..and going down right now..think I was fairly normal for a few hrs the other day..I have had the up & down within mins & hours b4 but haven't had it back since I had ECT. I have had memories & PTSD happen recently so I am confused...but I really relate to how you feel - I went to hosp - had a med change & rest <3