[ SECRET POST #2199 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2199 ⌋

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[Dragon Age 2]


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[Baby-sitters Club]


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[The Twelve Kingdoms]


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[Dangan Ronpa]


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Comments

Depression - a question

[(Anonymous)]

I am generally a depressed person. Just...evenly kind of depressed all the time. It's not a big deal. But now and then my mood just plummets to utterly suicidally fatalistically can't get out of bed depressed. It's awful. But generally after such a fast fall the next day or days I'll be hyper and happy nearly to the point of manic.

My question - is this relatively normal? I know outright it sounds like it hints at bipolar, but honestly the high extreme is never fully into what I would call manic, it's more just extremely hyper or hopped up. A hyper happiness that is more than normal "happy" and definitely has an odd edge to it coming right after the severe depression.

Does anyone else experience this at all?

Note: I am diagnosed with ADD - not ADHD as I do not generally have the hyperactive part. But I do get this manic/hyper mood like this relatively often so I'm trying to figure out if it's more connected with the depression and mood swings, or if it's actually more connected with my ADD or an odd mix of the two.

Note2: Sorry so wordy. It's a side effect of the hyper/high mood. Talk talk talk type type type.

Re: Depression - a question

[(Anonymous)]

Let's see. You sound like you could be dealing with AD(H)D and major depression (the latter of which I have), or potentially, depending on the sort of energy levels you have during the "mania", you could have Bipolar II like my sister -- she can't sleep or eat during her manic episodes, which last significantly shorter than her depressive ones (say, 3-4 days compared to 7-10).

Re: Depression - a question

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, this "hyper happiness" that you don't think is manic? It sounds an awful lot like manic, and you should see someone.

Re: Depression - a question

[(Anonymous)]

It was my understanding that to be truly manic it would last a number of days, whereas these moods I'm talking about are usually only a day, and sometimes only a handful of hours. There's also no negative urges like poor decision making skills or impulsive behaviors like shoplifting or promiscuity, which is often a major descriptor. There's no psychosis or hallucinations or anything "extreme" like that, which is why I hesitate to really call is manic. But I just don't know, can you have a low manic? Or semi-manic? I don't know.

I would love to see someone or be on medication or therapy, but sadly I'm not in a situation at the moment so I'm mostly just reading and researching. Hopefully in the future I can talk to an actual professional about this.

Re: Depression - a question

[biohazardgirl]

I suffer from bipolar exactly like that. Yes, there is low manic, called "hypomanic" and what you're describing is called rapid cycling. During bad periods my moods can shift from hour to hour or day to day and it's miserable. You need to get help asap, because you're playing with fire unmedicated.

I understand your confusion. Doctors had a hell of a time figuring out what was wrong with me because they don't look for rapid cycling and even many doctors have never heard of it.

There might not be hallucinations or psychosis now, but bipolar, especially rapid cycling, gets worse as it continues to be untreated.

Here, have some awesome bipolar resources that not enough people know about:
http://www.mcmanweb.com/index.html
http://www.psycheducation.org/depression/02_diagnosis.html

Re: Depression - a question

[(Anonymous)]

I suffer from major depression and I have rapid moodswings sometimes. My happy periods are usually feel a bit more happy than normal-happy just by virtue of the comparison to my depressive episodes. I don't know if it's the exact same thing you're going through, but I'm with the above anons in that you should talk to someone about if if you're able.