How "severe" are your MIs?

How severe (or not severe) are your MIs? Can you cope with them well?

Mine --

BP: moderate
ADHD: severe (or so I've been told)
GAD: moderate
OCD: very mild

Generally speaking, I can cope with my symptoms fairly well, except for the ADHD symptoms, which are currently not being treated.

My schizoaffective is severe on the bipolar front but mild to moderate on the schizophrenia front, and right now very well treated with the meds combo I'm on. It's my only diagnosis.

I don't think the bipolar is as bad as my dr does. I have a LOT more problems in my day to day life from the PTSD. But I guess between the two I'm pretty severe.

I have no problems whatsoever, so I guess it's quite severe or not at all. It's pretty much all I know, almost all I remember (I remember 3–5 years or so before onset, so I can't really tell: those were different times). Any stability may be mania/psychosis. How would I know?

They are just challenges and things just are.

That acceptance might be signs of great severity, but many with more severe and longer depression might be worse off, because they don't accept it as much.

It's a mix. One isn't necessarily better than another. I like mine, though it's hard. But when it's hard, suffering can become almost enjoyable.

Edit:
If functioning differently is a measure of severity, it's severe. But functioning differently can be very valuable and rewarding. It's just more of a risk.

Another edit:
Often paradoxically, it's not about the options you have, but those you see. That's why BP-II might in some ways be more severe than more psychotic flavours. But then anything more normal might be worse still.

Bipolar : very servere
Mostly controlled by meds.

I would say severe. My life has pretty much been dictated by my bipolar

Mine too. But it makes things easier as well.

Too many options may make one apathetic or neurotic.

In the past, honestly, my PTSD symptoms gave me more problems than the bipolar symptoms did, and the combination of the two was a mess. At one time in my life I'd say my mental illness was in the high moderate range. I wouldn't go so far as to call it severe as, with the exception of one or two brief instances of psychosis while I was in the hospital, I never completely lost touch with reality. The depression was on the low end of severe though. Severe enough to require hospitalization for my own safety I guess.

Currently though, I really don't display any symptoms of mental illness at all. I've been very stable and without symptoms for over two years now. Yeah me!!

Well, I don't think the bp is that bad.

But from my last moron doctor, jeez! I should be in a state mental hospital or something.

Anxiety, very bad. Always has been. I wish a doctor would take it seriously. Well one did, but she got me addicted to 4mg of clonazepam a day. That ended bad.

I think I'm moderate on all my diagnosis. Some are better, some are worse. I'm in the middle on a lot of things.

It's the paradox of BP. But just as much the greatest paradox of life, maybe.

In many ways, the less you know it, the worse it is. But is that bad?

I love life, BP, all of it. Such beauty, such suffering. I don't need anything else. Wow, that must be severe, or not at all!

Bipolar-severe
GAD-moderate to severe
PTSD-moderate (sort of mild/moderate after some really intense therapy)
OCDishness-mild

Bipolar 2: mild-moderate
OCD: moderate
GAD: moderate-severe

That's where I stand right now and on average, I'd say, too. My pdoc has my MI classified as "moderate complexity" on my check-out slip. :-P

BP 1: severe but currently under great control.

GAD: moderate to severe.

Before my bipolar diagnosis, I got all these diagnoses:
panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, insomnia, major depressive disorder recurrent severe, ADHD, borderline personality disorder

It turned out that all of those were just parts of my bipolar. The panic disorder, GAD, insomnia, and ADHD were my hypomanic symptoms. The BPD was my rapid cycling.

Rapid cycling bipolar II was the big picture that no one saw but that FINALLY gave answers to my questions and explained everything. Now I just say I have bipolar because it encompasses everything.

My bipolar II is REALLY severe. I've never held a job more than 7 or so months. Without meds, I would have been dead by suicide by the time I was 18. Without meds that work, I'm in a constant severe mixed state of bipolar, suicidal, having uncontrollable mood swings. Even WITH meds, I can't take care of my son, so he's in daycare full-time.

Right now with meds that are working and with summer, I'm still swinging a few times a week into moderate or severely disabling symptoms, but most days I'm doing fine and able to feel like myself, my REAL self, the me underneath all the mental illness. But that's with my son in daycare. If I had to keep a job and watch my son, I would suicide, without a doubt. I can handle barely any stressors in my life without a complete mental explosion because my bipolar is so bad.

If it wouldn't interact, it wouldn't be (so/as) severe. All these things should be kept into solitary confinement.

Bipolar: listed as severe but I really don't know
GAD severe

I'd say my bipolar is severe. and moderate on the adhd

Hey, I actually like it too!

God we're weird.

As far as the severity of my situation goes everyone in RL thinks I'm a lot worse that what I actually am. Geesh.

Might be a stupid question - but what is MI? Guessing it's some sort of test? Where can I find it?

My bipolar is severe enough to knock me out of the work force but i still manage to have a modest life anyways so i would say it's moderate.

MI stands for mental illness

Hmmm
In the past the mix of PTSD and BP was very severe many hospitals including two state hospitals

Now,
BP, well controlled
PTSD, cured or in remission depending on who I talk to.
Dissociative disorders, cured

BP - The new meds seem to be helping take me out of the low without crashing straight up. Feeling somewhat good. No, not good. Just....feeling. I like it.

PTSD - Not sure. This one is a confusing one for me. It was in remission. Which, I didn't even know it could do that. I thought it just went away. As it turns out, I knew very little of the illness. But then it came back after about ten years, when I started having children. And it was joined with some GAD. It has many of the symptoms as it did before, but not all of them effect me in the exact same way as it did in the past. For example, the nightmares. They used to be about the monster that hurt me. Now, in my nightmares, I become that monster. It's been explained to me by my pdoc, but I still can't seem to fully wrap my head around why this is happening.
These illnesses are so fickle.

My BP2 is mild/moderate. I can function well when I have things under wraps but I need to watch sleep, exercise, diet, meditation, and mindfulness. I have been in a creative phase for the last few weeks (looking for a new job, doing a lot of writing) and I've been pretty happy. I get squirrelly when I'm bored or unchallenged.