While full-blown manic episodes are what some of us fear most, many of us with bipolar disorder suffer more from long-term depression and rarely experience mania or even hypomania. Several members of my bipolar support group have suffered all their lives with long bouts of depression, and have found little relief from available medication. I, too, have always found the depressions much more debilitating than the hypomania.
The only times I ever tried to get help were during deep depressions....
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