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#26
Jan 19, 2015, 06:02 PM
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Rapid cycling means you have 4 or more distinct mood episodes in a year meeting the full criteria for length of hypo/manic
Being up and down or hypo then crying could be a mixed episode kinda thing going on Or freaking and not remembering it for a day then back to depression can just be the agitation that comes with depression sometimes Its hard trying to figure out the whole mood thing!
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Jan 19, 2015, 06:42 PM
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I think it's wonderful that your wife is able to separate herself from your rages and help you through them. I find, more often than not, I slip into an intense depressive state after these times because I feel very badly for having raged and without a way to make my target understand why it happened and how sorry I am that it did. |
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Jan 19, 2015, 07:00 PM
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[QUOTE=jacky8807;4219666]Rapid cycling means you have 4 or more distinct mood episodes in a year meeting the full criteria for length of hypo/manic/QUOTE]
I probably should have said ultra-rapid. I don't think I'm "ultradian", but I have switched moods pretty rapidly apparently. Like before an argument was over. Ever since I was inpatient the first time my mood states have lasted days and weeks a few times. I would say in the whole of last year I went from high to low probably 8 or 9 times. Bottomed out once and flew too high to the sun once. The manic episode got me my second trip to the hospital, almost 2 years from the first time I went in (originally diagnosed with MDD). Before I was hospitalized the first time I would be in different levels of depression with hypomanic episodes maybe 2 to 4 times a year. My therapist has pointed to a few times in my past that would put me high enough (and reckless enough) to be considered manic, and she's convinced I was manic most of the time I spent in the Army. I seriously thought the way I was is how "normal" people are...I was just a little moody. Looking back now I can see it went a whole lot passed "a little moody".
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Jan 19, 2015, 10:16 PM
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This describes me to a T. It takes my son or co worker (neither of whom know I'm bipolar) to say that I am racing and hyper or manic for me to see it. It is incredibly frustrating to go from completely depressed to agitated and extremely irritated (like rip your head off irritable ) in a day.
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Jan 20, 2015, 01:16 PM
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Jan 20, 2015, 03:41 PM
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I just saw my new dr. and thankfully I was able to add lithium to my current meds. Hopefully it will stabilize me.
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