Depression vs Mania (if you had to pick)

For me, I'd get rid of the depression. My depressions are always lower than my manias are high. It takes over my whole being, it's exhausting and sucks away my soul. My manias are mainly dangerous in that I become really sexually active but they aren't as bad as depression for me personally.

I would get rid of mania. I live with depression and hate it but mania nearly ended me.

I'd get rid of mania. I tend to go hypomania to mania to mixed state to suicide attempt. I've gotten really lucky that the attempts weren't successful.

With depression I just isolate and hate myself. I skip all the destruction of mania in terms of sex, relationships, jobs, family, money...

(And my meds seem to keep depression at bay more easily than mania.)

I think a lot more BP2 people would skew toward dumping the depression and BP1 people toward dumping the mania.

I would cut out mania.
My mania hurts me and other people very badly.
My depression mostly hurts myself very badly.

I would ditch the depression. It's severe and life threatening.

I would get rid of mania. I love being hypo but full blown mania almost destroyed my marriage and almost killed me. My pdoc said I had to be admitted to the hospital to be put me on meds or I would be dead within a month. Either from a heart attack or from the life style I was living ( living at bars and sleeping with strangers) I was even raped and beaten from 4 different guys one night) I have PTSD from that event and never want to live that way again.

I'd delete mania, as numerous others here have noted, its not safe for me, and its not safe for those around me. My depression is awful enough, but not terribly dangerous.

I'd lose the depression if I had my druthers. Mania makes me crazy but depression has threatened more than once to take me out for good. TBH, I'd rather have neither, but of course that option was taken off the table a looooong time ago.

I am in my first mania episode starting in middle of night. I got a lot done, cleaned kitchen, bathroom and living room. Took shower, did hair and got an appointment today to see therapist.

Depression almost did me in, more then once over the years.

So I would get rid of the depression.

I would always choose to keep the mania.

Mania is my favorite. I hate depression.

I'd get rid of the depression if I could choose. The hypo mania and mania are part of me part of my life but the depression BLAH!

Mania without a doubt

Id get rid of the mania, depression is so much more socially acceptable

Full blown mania is something I never want to go through again. Hypomania is ok. However, deep depression (like the one I have just had) is a hell on its own. Then there are the even more hellish mixed episodes – they are the worst.

Basically, it is so difficult to choose one over the other. Right now I would choose mania, but I just had a bad depressive episode. After a bad manic episode I would choose depression. How about stable? I choose stable.

Yes! This is a severe issue for me as well. I actually usually quite like mania, though I could to without the frustration and agitation. I am productive, sociable, motivated, and confident. Full mania is a bit too much though, especially to those around me.

even so, the depression is absolutely crippling. I can't get out of bed, and I am often times afraid that I may lose my job when it hits. All I do is sleep. I am plagued by fatigue, sadness, lack of confidence, and lack of motivation. That's when I pray to be manic again.