Bipolar? I don't know. Please Help?!
Question: I am going thru a lot these days & I've been thinking that its a pattern to my craziness. Just so happens that I am a student in college studying psychology. I thought to look into depression & see if I had a problem with depression. I am thinking maybe I'm bipolar. I have extreme highs and lows, my personality changes with the seasons. I have grand ideas and extreme plans that I think are going to make me a lot of money. I spent days and many sleepless nights working on my new idea only to totally lose interest in them & toss my ideas to the side. I constantly quit jobs. I have constant struggle with keeping my house clean. I will clean it up so well & then I can't take the responsibility of keeping it clean that I will allow it to become flithy & then I have anxiety and become depressed over the dirty house. I do the same thing with my money. I manage money well & then I blow it. I love my friends & then I can't stand them & their vile people. I don't understand. Am I Bipolar?
Answers: I am going thru a lot these days & I've been thinking that its a pattern to my craziness. Just so happens that I am a student in college studying psychology. I thought to look into depression & see if I had a problem with depression. I am thinking maybe I'm bipolar. I have extreme highs and lows, my personality changes with the seasons. I have grand ideas and extreme plans that I think are going to make me a lot of money. I spent days and many sleepless nights working on my new idea only to totally lose interest in them & toss my ideas to the side. I constantly quit jobs. I have constant struggle with keeping my house clean. I will clean it up so well & then I can't take the responsibility of keeping it clean that I will allow it to become flithy & then I have anxiety and become depressed over the dirty house. I do the same thing with my money. I manage money well & then I blow it. I love my friends & then I can't stand them & their vile people. I don't understand. Am I Bipolar?
Your mood swings do seem to be more severe than a "normal" deprssion. Although bipolarity is a possibility, so is manic depression, since you describe episodes of what could be termed "mania".
You should most definitely consult a reputed psychiatrist, and once you have some medication to allow you to be more stable in your emotions, find a counselor so that eventually you may be able to get rid of the meds.
Don't feel that meds are always bad - no one would tell a diabetic to stop taking insulin, and your brain is an organ too. It may need something it's not getting.
just a normal woman
Sorry to tell you ladycat, but bipolar is just another name for manic depression! But fantastic advice, bipolar is just like any other condition that is treated with medication.
But to answer the question it really does sound like you could have bipolar if things really are just like you say.
At least you admit you may have a problem, my boyfriend is always having grand ideas only to change his mind later and has lots of highs and lows. I wonder if he has a problem, but how can you broach the subject without losing him?
My advice is to get it checked out.
Good luck darl.
You're describing classic BP. Manic states < > Depressed states, with agitation as well.
Since you're in college, there should be some free counseling avaliable. That's a good place to start & take a look at your options.
As you may or may not know.. the swings do tend to increase in severity over time, but catching it early helps a great deal. One thing that has been benificial to me is www.crazyboards.org - it has alot of information.
go to the doctor-u might hurt yourself