How do you experience Mixed States?

Icare dixit · May 23, 2016, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Gabyunbound

So it sounds like a kind of very very agitated depression sometimes accompanied by psychosis? I'm still confused, but regardless everyone experiences it (as all related to Bipolar) in different ways.

Or full blown mania with depressive features, though maybe that's the same thing?

But one thing is clear, at least from what you guys have responded, is that it's not an unending up/down state (which I have seen explained on another forum elsewhere) it's truly a constellation of of symptoms that are experienced simultaneously, which at least makes some sense DSM-wise (not that everyone neatly fits into the DSM).

Hope this makes sense, I have come down with the flu of the century and am feverish, etc. with migraines thrown in for good measure.

Thanks for sharing your experiences!

No it can be alternating mood states, maybe always is, but if it's very fast you lose track and thoughts belonging to one mood state merge with another mood state and anxiety clouds any of that anyway. Tiring.

BeyondtheRainbow · May 23, 2016, 10:06 PM

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I've seen descriptions of it that to me sound like ultra rapid cycling (up/down/up/down many times in a given day) and other times it sounds kind of like an agitated depression (or depressive mania, if that exists?).

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For me, take both of what you described, put in a bottle and shake. whatever comes out is mixed. Sometimes it's one, sometimes it's the other and often it is all of it at once.

I find it really hard to put into words and like BipolaRNs' description.

raspberrytorte · May 23, 2016, 10:26 PM

That's actually kind of the way it felt, icare. You're good at this! I've been trying to figure that ****ing whatever it was that happened to me forever. I guess maybe it was a mixed episode. Overall it still felt very bad. lol

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