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Default Apr 14, 2018 at 08:21 PM
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My old doctor says I’m not bipolar because I’ve never been manic. My new doctor is confused because I told him I’m not bipolar yet I’m on bipolar meds. So I was wondering, can you be bipolar without mania? Or are my meds working really well?

I have mood swings. sometimes my mood changes every few minutes. Yet I rarely show them. I can be really moody yet talk to people calmly and rationally to the point they think I’m just feeling normal.

I don’t know. Maybe I just have very good control over my moods.
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Default Apr 14, 2018 at 08:28 PM
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It’s hard to know. My understanding is that Type2 BP experience hypomania not full blown mania.
What meds are you on ? There must’ve been a reason you were put on them.

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Default Apr 14, 2018 at 08:32 PM
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Have you ever had a clear mixed episode? I think that's why I'm diagnosed bipolar.

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Default Apr 14, 2018 at 08:32 PM
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With bipolar 2, the mania can be more like irritability. That's what my Mom has. But sometimes they use anti-psychotics and mood stabilizers with depressed people to augment the anti-depressants. I'm not bipolar, but I took abilify for a while.
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Default Apr 14, 2018 at 08:34 PM
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I live in mania my mom says why you on a med thats for bipolar depression when your not depressed. Well the med works, and why mess with what works. Fact is i used to be depressed due to situation not chemically. Now not. Anyway, don't worry about it. Just do what works, if its not working than question it.

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Default Apr 14, 2018 at 08:52 PM
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Bipolar meds may be tried if antidepressants don’t work.

Do your meds help you?

Your new doc can order your records with your permission
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Default Apr 14, 2018 at 08:58 PM
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I’m on geodon and lamictal. I don’t know what a mixed episode is. My meds are working. But I’m not sure how well they work or if It’s just the mindfulness I use.

I was orginally put on these meds for mood swings and behavior issues that turned out to be undiagnosed PMDD. Once I got on birth control I made a lot of progress.

I’m not going to have my records sent over. My new doctor was so obsessed with my past and shrugged off how I’ve been the past 7 years. I don’t want him to diagnose me with something I may have had 11 years ago but not something I’ve had for the past 5 years.

Signing over my records would be a very bad choice.
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Default Apr 14, 2018 at 09:27 PM
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Who is really to say? Bipolar or not???

Only time can Tell. There is cycling to ultradian rapID cycling. There is also borderline personality disorder. Also DID aka MPD. Not much can be properly diagnosed 10 minute visit with an unqualified bio mechanic. Keep looking.
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Default Apr 14, 2018 at 09:33 PM
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What is an unqualified bio mechanic? It was actually an hour long assessment.

And keep looking for what exactly? Another doctor? Another diagnoses? What?
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Default Apr 14, 2018 at 09:45 PM
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The more research they do they are figuring out that it’s more of a spectrum than either/or. Someone can be mostly depressed with occasional mania or hypo mania. Many people never have an episode of full blown psychotic mania. I never have. I get really hyper and distracted though.

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Default Apr 14, 2018 at 09:48 PM
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....indeed.

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Default Apr 14, 2018 at 10:31 PM
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"Manic" can mean a lot of mood states. Hollywood shows manic as the textbook hyper-energized, no sleep, hyper-sexual, etc., etc. type of mania.

The truth is, irritability/anger/rage can be a mania. Severe anxiety can be a form of mania ("dysphoric mania"). And so on.
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Default Apr 15, 2018 at 02:13 AM
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The more research they do they are figuring out that it’s more of a spectrum than either/or. Someone can be mostly depressed with occasional mania or hypo mania. Many people never have an episode of full blown psychotic mania. I never have. I get really hyper and distracted though.
I’m never certain of what makes me more or less psychotic. I’m always in a low-level manic delusional state, though. I can feel depressed for a time (like now) but not so horrible as MDD.

I’m a pendulum.

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Yes. I have never been manic. (BPII)


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Default Apr 15, 2018 at 08:45 AM
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My PDOC said I have agitated depression which is a form of bipolar and I don't get manic. I have mixed mood swings between depression and agitation.

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Default Apr 15, 2018 at 10:07 AM
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Some doctors have a pretty wide definition of the bipolar spectrum. Some feel that some patients may be on the very lower end even without sufficient symptoms to qualify for cyclothymia or bipolar 2, let alone bipolar 1. The main thing is if moodstabilizers and/or antipsychotics give you more relief than antidepressants or antidepressants alone.
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Default Apr 15, 2018 at 04:56 PM
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I'm diagnosed with Bipolar II, but I don't even get the typical hypomania. It swings from depression to this agitated mixed state and back. I've had numerous different diagnosis because the PDocs I've seen can never seem to make up their mind. All they can agree on is there is some type of mood disorder going on.
I like the idea that Bipolar is more of a spectrum than just clear cut I or II.

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Default Apr 15, 2018 at 05:19 PM
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Everyone has their own unique soup of Bipolar.

Sure the DSMV has guidelines that can help some.

But everyone’s bipolar is different.

I don’t get happy puppy rainbow Mania I get the angry hate the world type.

My daughter has Bipolar 1 also but our mood shifts are very different.

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Default Apr 15, 2018 at 09:57 PM
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I live in mania my mom says why you on a med thats for bipolar depression when your not depressed. Well the med works, and why mess with what works. Fact is i used to be depressed due to situation not chemically. Now not. Anyway, don't worry about it. Just do what works, if its not working than question it.
I agree - I think it’s easy to hung up on the diagnosis but the most important part is your healing and if what you are taking works then that is a very good thing.

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Default Apr 15, 2018 at 10:00 PM
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If your moods fluctuate independently of life events that’s more of a bipolar thing than thr alternative where only life events trigger drastic mood episodes. However, life events can still trigger a bipolar episode the mood swings are mostly episodic. Did they propose another diagnosis if it’s no longer bipolar?

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