How can I tell if I have Bipolar Disorder?!
Question: How can I tell if I have Bipolar Disorder.?
A friend suggested that I might have Bipolar Disorder, I looked it up on the net but, I just don't know. I would really like it if someone with Bipolar could please help me out.
Im 22 and it all started about three years back, I started to have what I would call move swings that would change every few hours. I would feel grate, confident, and motivated, next I would feel down and upset, sometimes nearly in tears. I thought this was normal, it was only when I got a little older and realized that it was not normal to oscillate between emotions like this. I also find it nearly impossible to forgive people who have hurt me, I often find myself getting very angry at least once a day with these people even years after the event has happened, these mainly include past girlfriends. I tend to be a paranoid sort of person because I very much over complicate simple for example constructive criticism from friends.Health Question & Answer
Im 22 and it all started about three years back, I started to have what I would call move swings that would change every few hours. I would feel grate, confident, and motivated, next I would feel down and upset, sometimes nearly in tears. I thought this was normal, it was only when I got a little older and realized that it was not normal to oscillate between emotions like this. I also find it nearly impossible to forgive people who have hurt me, I often find myself getting very angry at least once a day with these people even years after the event has happened, these mainly include past girlfriends. I tend to be a paranoid sort of person because I very much over complicate simple for example constructive criticism from friends.Health Question & Answer
Answers:
Bipolar episodes don't change every few hours. Episodes usually last days, weeks, or months.
If you've ever been seriously depressed, you may have depression. You would have to have had manic episodes to be bipolar. Symptoms of mania are:
Increased energy
Decreased need for sleep (you sleep only a few hours and feel fine)
Increased talkativeness
Use swear words more
Hypersexuality (much more obsessed with sex than you normally are)
Making unrealistic plans (think you can do things that are actually impossible)
If this sounds like you at times, you may very well be bipolar. Some poeple, like me, have mixed episodes. Here is what happens to me when I get a mixed episode (mania and depression at the same time):
Increased energy
Decreased sleep
Feel horrible, worthless, stupid, ugly, hate myself, want to die
Hypersexual
The combination of hypersexuality and suicidalness has, a few times, led me to be obsessed with a girl and to think I will kill myself if I can't have her.
If you've never experienced anything like what I've described, you can rule out bipolar disorder. If it sounds like you, though, see a psychiatrist fast.Health Question & Answer
If you've ever been seriously depressed, you may have depression. You would have to have had manic episodes to be bipolar. Symptoms of mania are:
Increased energy
Decreased need for sleep (you sleep only a few hours and feel fine)
Increased talkativeness
Use swear words more
Hypersexuality (much more obsessed with sex than you normally are)
Making unrealistic plans (think you can do things that are actually impossible)
If this sounds like you at times, you may very well be bipolar. Some poeple, like me, have mixed episodes. Here is what happens to me when I get a mixed episode (mania and depression at the same time):
Increased energy
Decreased sleep
Feel horrible, worthless, stupid, ugly, hate myself, want to die
Hypersexual
The combination of hypersexuality and suicidalness has, a few times, led me to be obsessed with a girl and to think I will kill myself if I can't have her.
If you've never experienced anything like what I've described, you can rule out bipolar disorder. If it sounds like you, though, see a psychiatrist fast.Health Question & Answer
You do have some symptoms of bipolar disorder, but there may be some other issues, too. You should see a counselor or a psychiatrist for an evaluation and treatment.
Mood swings of bipolar disorder CAN be rapid, as you describe, and people with bipolar disorder often also have problems dealing with anger.Health Question & Answer
Mood swings of bipolar disorder CAN be rapid, as you describe, and people with bipolar disorder often also have problems dealing with anger.Health Question & Answer
Doesn't sound like bipolar to me and I suffer from it. But see a psychiatrist or therapist anyway - your issues can still be treatable. :)Health Question & Answer
go see your doctor!Health Question & Answer
i am unfortunate enough to be bipolar too and it doesnt really sound like it. the mood swings do to some extent but usually the swings are spaced out more. when your manic your on top of the world, unusually happy and think you can do anything (for me at least everyone is different) depressed you can barely get out of bed.
the fact that the swings happen daily makes me think its something else. sounds like you have some things in your past that you have buried and they're all coming back now. see a therapist get that stuff worked out of ya and i think youll feel much better. Health Question & Answer
the fact that the swings happen daily makes me think its something else. sounds like you have some things in your past that you have buried and they're all coming back now. see a therapist get that stuff worked out of ya and i think youll feel much better. Health Question & Answer
Bipolar, also known as manic depression is a mood disorder caused by the brain mis handling neurotransmiters. This causes 2 "poles" of mood, Depression and mania. Episodes tend to last weeks to months.....not one minute happy next minute sad like many people think. also, although most people understand what depression is, most dont understand mania. Mania is much more then"really happy" or hyper. It is period of very high energy that can be either euphoric our dysphoric. Euphoric feels really good, feel productive, get ideas of grandure, great plans that you want to pursue that to anyone else are unreasonable.....and so on. Dysphoric episods are more angry raging energy. also with both racing thoughts, excessive behavior, skewed perseptions and such.
There are also different degrees of bipolar.
Bipolar I- Mania and severe depression.
Bipolar II- Hypomania (slighly milder version of mania) and severe depression
Cyclothymia-Hypomania and milder depression
Bipolar NOS(not otherwise specified)-sometimes also refered to as bipolar III. Is the diagnosis a Dr would give to someone that has an illness that is obviously bipolar in nature, but does not fit under the full diagnostic criteria for any other the others.
All are a spectrum of the same disorder.
Rapid cycling bipolar is 4 or more episodes, depressed or manic a year......im a rapid cycler would typicly have around 8 episodes a year, lasting between 3-10 weeks and not much stable state in between. Ultraradian cycling is a much rapider, and does change within days......however that is VERY rare. Really more typical bipolar is less the 4 episodes a year, with periods of normacy in between.
The only way you tell if you are bipolar is if you are diagnosed by a psychiatrist. there are many other illnesses that share many of the same symptoms.
Doesnt sound like you have bipolar to me. Doesnt sound at all like the extreams of Bipolar.....depressed is not "nearly crying".....its dont want to get out of bed....dont want to go to work...possible suicidal ideation....and someone could feel "great confident and modiated" with no illness at all....that is not skewed perseptions that come with mania....its OVER confidence, feel like you know beter then anyone, can do anything, start making nonsensical plans that seem brilliant to you at the time, and over load of energy. Energy is one of the huge parts to mania.
Sounds like could possibly be borderline or something along those lines. Or just coping problems. And there are many other possibilitys.
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There are also different degrees of bipolar.
Bipolar I- Mania and severe depression.
Bipolar II- Hypomania (slighly milder version of mania) and severe depression
Cyclothymia-Hypomania and milder depression
Bipolar NOS(not otherwise specified)-sometimes also refered to as bipolar III. Is the diagnosis a Dr would give to someone that has an illness that is obviously bipolar in nature, but does not fit under the full diagnostic criteria for any other the others.
All are a spectrum of the same disorder.
Rapid cycling bipolar is 4 or more episodes, depressed or manic a year......im a rapid cycler would typicly have around 8 episodes a year, lasting between 3-10 weeks and not much stable state in between. Ultraradian cycling is a much rapider, and does change within days......however that is VERY rare. Really more typical bipolar is less the 4 episodes a year, with periods of normacy in between.
The only way you tell if you are bipolar is if you are diagnosed by a psychiatrist. there are many other illnesses that share many of the same symptoms.
Doesnt sound like you have bipolar to me. Doesnt sound at all like the extreams of Bipolar.....depressed is not "nearly crying".....its dont want to get out of bed....dont want to go to work...possible suicidal ideation....and someone could feel "great confident and modiated" with no illness at all....that is not skewed perseptions that come with mania....its OVER confidence, feel like you know beter then anyone, can do anything, start making nonsensical plans that seem brilliant to you at the time, and over load of energy. Energy is one of the huge parts to mania.
Sounds like could possibly be borderline or something along those lines. Or just coping problems. And there are many other possibilitys.
See a Psychiatrist or therapistHealth Question & Answer