[annmaria]

I have been going through depression cycle for months. I have had a very much improved couple of weeks. I thought I had come out of the depression but I am starting to feel unwell again as in low mood.

Is it common for this to happen I was hoping to be back to baseline. I had my high cycle also and ended in hospital and then have been depressed for months.

It makes sense

For me, depression fluctuates in intensity. Sometimes it gets really bad, then becomes mild, then becomes bad again.

When it's mild, it feels like the depression is lifting, but it could easily take a turn for the worst... So I'm a lot like you in that respect

I don't know how common it is, but I can relate. You're not alone

[Gabyunbound]

My pdoc told me that after a Bipolar depression you're vulnerable to another episode of depression for 8 weeks after returning to baseline. Maybe this is why you (and any of us) sometimes become depressed again even if it's after we feel better? Though I hope this isn't your case -maybe the low mood will change and you'll just go back to baseline, I hope this for you.

I wish you the best. What you're describing is actually starting to happen to me now, but it may be situational, not sure. Either way, depression is depression, and it really sucks.

[Fuzzybear]

[Skeezyks]

Hello annmaria... As your lovely Signature quote says: "... one thing at a time, all things in succession."

There is a author I'm fond of named Parker J. Palmer. In his book: A Hidden Wholeness- The Journey Toward an Undivided Life Palmer (who has also struggled with major depression in his life) wrote: "I don't know who coined the phase 'Every day in every way, I am getting better and better,' but he or she must have had a great fantasy life. In sixty years on earth, my pattern has never been onward and upward. It has always been up and down and back around. I follow the thread of true life faithfully for a while. Then I lose it and find myself back in the dark, where fear drives me to search for the thread again." (Pg. 90)

Your post, along with your Signature quote, reminded me of these lines. So I offer them here. Your post & your Signature quote, as well as these lines from Parker Palmer's book, mirror my own experience. Every time I think I've finally crawled out of the crater for the last time, I find myself unexpectedly sliding back in... I don't know how common it is. I suspect it is very common. It has certainly been my experience.

I send healing thoughts your way, with the hope that, even should you slide back temporarily, your trajectory will continue to be onwards & upwards...

[Daonnachd]

Originally Posted by annmaria

I have been going through depression cycle for months. I have had a very much improved couple of weeks. I thought I had come out of the depression but I am starting to feel unwell again as in low mood.

Is it common for this to happen I was hoping to be back to baseline.

I believe it is common, especially with bipolar II, if the literature I've read is accurate.

I wish you well.

[hopeless2015]

Hugs I understand 100%

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I hope you feel better soon.

[cincidak]

I hope your depression lifts very soon

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