Normal mood changes

Have you ever considered the possibility that our mood changes within a normal range but that we are so sensitive to these changes that just our reactions to them are more extreme?

Or is a mood always (caused by) a (psychological) reaction? What about emotions.

I think it's a bit of both, but I don't know to what extent it's psychological, not just an immediate, autonomous reaction or a state not influenced by external stimuli, but just more or less arbitrarily changing or purely based on previous mood states.

I'm not sure how the brain is affected by emotions.
I saw cat scans of depressed persons vs non depressed. Different brain areas were lit up.

I've wondered the same thing!

We would be pretty boring without changes to our moods.

Situation X happens , my husband and I might react differently, a recent thing that happened had him all kinds of freaking out and angry. Me ? I was like Meh.

Then there was me spazzing out. Was it Bipolar ? Nope it was a reasonable response on my part.

Bipolar is part of my life , yeah sometimes I come unglued and it isn't reasonable.

Having Bipolar means you can be happy or pissed off and it have nothing to do with Bipolar.

I think my EXTREME emotions are sometimes FUELED by my bipolar. For instance when I am manic I may cry more or be unreasonable and irritable.

But as far as regular emotions I think that's just being human.

I've thought somewhat similarly to this at times, but then the fact that I am a very calm and chill person most of the times and stuff just starts acting up at random and seems to drag on, has me convinced it's more than just being extra sensitive. I mean, unless we're super-duper-hyper-sensitive.

My normal fluctuations in mood make the people around me worried that I'm "doing the bipolar thing again"
Feck stigma.

What if we could just hand out informational pamphlets to everyone who says something insensitive or uneducated about bipolar?

Yes. I refer to myself as 'being allergic to my own emotions'.