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What I Know and Don't Know About Bipolar 2 - From Experience

By Marcia Purse, Health Guide Sunday, January 22, 2012
Everyone who has bipolar disorder has their own specific problems. And while I know quite a lot about bipolar, my personal experience is limited to occasional hypomanic episodes and a ton of depressive episodes. I've never experienced mania or hypersexuality. I've never had psychotic symptoms.  ...
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1/27/12 9:29pm

Thank you for echoing exactly how I feel at times. I am dealing with having to explain what racing thoughts are and the effects of them on me. I sometimes feel alone and am glad to read about someone who experiences the same thing.

2/29/12 10:14pm

Racing thoughts  Hum, it's when I personally have a thought that is noteworthy, and I can't get to the pencil and paper in the living room, before I loose it and it is gone.   I am going in  fast forward mode, much like watching a DVD on fast forward.  When my husband and friends tell me I talk non-stop and can't make sense out it. 

This is racing thoughts for me,

Aulpn

3/ 1/12 12:20am

You said it exactly as I experience it, experience is limited to occasional hypomanic episodes and a ton of depressive episodes!  That's me in a nutshell, with occasional racing thoughts.  I feel better now knowing I'm not alone. Thanks

3/ 1/12 12:20am

You said it exactly as I experience it, experience is limited to occasional hypomanic episodes and a ton of depressive episodes!  That's me in a nutshell, with occasional racing thoughts.  I feel better now knowing I'm not alone. Thanks

2/29/12 10:06pm

You know yourself very well!  My husband is frequently telling me that I critique my body and my Bipolar too much!  Not so, not so!  I critique my actions, friends on my team, and etc.  What I learn from them, I take seriously.  Like when my circle of friends kept telling me I was 'different'.  Boy were they right.  A drug reaction, left me unable to recognize, people, unable to understand the phone, computer etc. 

Now my husband and friends tell me little things, and write notes on the daily calendar I keep with my Bipolar notes etc.

Aulpn

 

By Marcia Purse, Health Guide— Last Modified: 03/01/12, First Published: 01/22/12