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Apr 11, 2018, 01:49 PM
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Hello, my name is Evan and I have just joined this website today. I made this post to get some advice and opinions on my what I believe is to be bipolar but I have no clue if it is. So starting from the beginning, I have been deeply depressed since around 7th grade. I had a video game addiction and this really left me to become an outsider and socially awkward. I’ve been depressed ever since till about my junior year of high school. This is where things start to get weird: I was experiencing weird dreams, memories coming back from nowhere, feeling weird and strange sometimes. I feel like sometimes I was going insane. I also had panic attacks once a week. I got mad when I saw people that were happy and didn’t experience what I was going through. I had up and down moods, where sometimes I would get sad and other times I felt extremely happy, these moods would last hours to minutes. These are not so severe as bipolar mood swings where they would last days weeks or months. When I was depressed I would feel at my lowest point and when I was happy, I was just happy, I didn’t have the common symptoms of mania that people usually have. My sleep schedule was fine and I didn’t hallucinate or anything. I felt like I was the only person who has this issue and nothing could help me. I felt like isolating and sometimes I just asked myself is this real life. I felt sad about the past because I'm growing up. Our family has a really bad case of anxiety and we still struggle with it deeply. My family has no history of bipolar... “except” for my dad and I’ll explain why, his bipolar was brought up by smoking too much weed. I think (this is my opinion and yes, there is research on it, so it is proven) his bipolar was brought up by weed. There is a significant link between the use of cannabis and onset mania symptoms. His breakdown was met with full blown mania and was treated for mania. So for those of you saying “genetics plays an important role...” I don’t think that’s the case for me. I just want answers because I have been struggling 2 years with this mental illness, everything has been a struggle for me ever since then, I see my friends be successful and I’m just sitting here, contemplating life as it goes by. Please just help me. Thanks for your time and ALL opinions matter.
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Apr 12, 2018, 04:23 PM
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Hello Evan: I see this is your first post here on PC. So... welcome to PsychCentral.
 May I suggest you introduce yourself to the general membership over on our New Members Introductions forum? Here's a link:https://forums.psychcentral.com/new-...introductions/ We here on PC cannot diagnose you. This is a job for a mental health professional. Our purpose, here on PC, is to provide one another with support as well as to exchange experiences & information.  However here are links to some articles, from PsychCentral's archives, that may be of some help to you in trying to determine if what you are experiencing might be diagnosable as Bipolar Disorder:https://psychcentral.com/disorders/bipolar/ https://psychcentral.com/disorders/b...ar-depression/ https://psychcentral.com/quizzes/bipolar-quiz/ https://psychcentral.com/disorders/b...rder-symptoms/ https://psychcentral.com/disorders/b...er-fact-sheet/ https://psychcentral.com/lib/an-over...olar-disorder/ I hope you find the time you spend here to be of benefit. 
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Apr 13, 2018, 04:27 AM
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Sorry for not being able to read so many sentences together.
Welcome to PC.
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Apr 13, 2018, 09:54 AM
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Your symptoms could be the result of any number of disorders. It's important to see a psychologist or psychiatrist to get a diagnosis.
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Apr 13, 2018, 10:21 AM
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Hi Evan,
Welcome to PC.  I hope you find the information and the support you may be seeking. Please make yourself at home. Jump in wherever you feel led to do so. Your first 5 posts are approved by a moderator before they appear. After 5 approved posts, you will also have access to chatrooms and to the Private Messaging (PM) system. I hope to see you around the forums.  WC
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Apr 13, 2018, 12:05 PM
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Welcome to psych central
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 Eat a live frog for breakfast every morning and nothing worse can happen to you that day! "Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged Bipolar type 2 rapid cycling DX 2013 - Seroquel 100 Celexa 20 mg Xanax .5 mg prn Modafanil 100 mg 
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Apr 13, 2018, 01:35 PM
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Hello and welcome
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Apr 13, 2018, 02:29 PM
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Welcome to PC!
Your symptoms could indicate disorders besides bipolar, so an accurate diagnosis with a MH professional would be more helpful to you. |
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Apr 13, 2018, 05:40 PM
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Another Raven here....
Welcome to PC! This is a really supportive forum. Although your symptoms might point to something on the Bipolar spectrum, as others said, they might indicate something different. I hope that you get the help you need. A Psychiatric Evaluation would probably be best and will help you get the answers that you are looking for. |
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Apr 13, 2018, 05:54 PM
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Do you have health insurance? Yes, weed also causes extreme anxiety and paranoia.
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Apr 14, 2018, 12:55 AM
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Welcome to PC. Like others said we cannot diagnose you. Although, I understand your need to hear others’ experiences and see if you can relate.
May be you want to consider reading other members’ posts to see if there are any commonalities with your experiences? I was suspecting that I had Bipolar depression (v. Unipolar depression), so I spent a lot of time reading others’ experiences. It became easier to identify my own symptoms after I was exposed to the knowledge shared on PC. As others mentioned above, it is important and necessary that you see a doctor as soon as possible. While I used the information I gathered on this website I also found a new doctor to discuss my own suspicions and symptoms. And, my suspicions were correct as I was recently diagnosed with Bipolar depression. In summary, while I relied on the valuable information on this website, I also found a doctor to discuss my symptoms and struggles.
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