RE: What do you do when life gets you down
November 1, 2012 at 10:33 am
(This post was last modified: November 1, 2012 at 10:35 am by Edwardo Piet.)
@ apo and Faith No More.
I myself have bi-polar affective disorder and I was diagnosed at 18 (I'm 24 now), although I believe I expressed some symptoms at least 6 months before that. Who knows how long I've had elements of it.
When I've been depressed I really had no idea what I was feeling.... after all my emotions were a confusion and more than simply depression. All my episodes are kind of mixed episodes. But nevertheless it turns out that I was mostly depressed and I say 'turns out' because it is only looking back that I realize how truly low in mood I was. I was in a void of hopelessness and frustration but I was too confused to know what I felt.
When I've been manic, well, that's another story. It involved full-blown delusional mania.
I've had several more minor mini episodes but only 2 major episodes so far, although they were very major. The first one being very manic indeed and also with some mixed paranoia and the second one being severe depression with some mixed anger and attempted suicide. I was in hospital for 8 weeks during both those major episodes.
I myself have bi-polar affective disorder and I was diagnosed at 18 (I'm 24 now), although I believe I expressed some symptoms at least 6 months before that. Who knows how long I've had elements of it.
When I've been depressed I really had no idea what I was feeling.... after all my emotions were a confusion and more than simply depression. All my episodes are kind of mixed episodes. But nevertheless it turns out that I was mostly depressed and I say 'turns out' because it is only looking back that I realize how truly low in mood I was. I was in a void of hopelessness and frustration but I was too confused to know what I felt.
When I've been manic, well, that's another story. It involved full-blown delusional mania.
I've had several more minor mini episodes but only 2 major episodes so far, although they were very major. The first one being very manic indeed and also with some mixed paranoia and the second one being severe depression with some mixed anger and attempted suicide. I was in hospital for 8 weeks during both those major episodes.
