Not sure if my self-diagnosis is correct i'd love opinions

My personal experiences are unlikely to be useful as a comparison as the symptoms and duration of episodes often differs between individuals. The mental health community is revolutionizing the way in which it recognizes and categorizes mental illness and as such in recent years different diagnoses and recognition of common co-morbidities have arisen to explain the large deviation of symptoms in individuals. Please continue to monitor your mood and actions to most accurately communicate your symptoms to a health care provider, regardless of what is causing of your suffering.

The average length of time for individuals suffering from Bipolar varies greatly, due to the many forms of the illness from ultradian rapid cycling (as often as a few hours) to "classical" bipolar in which episodes can last months or years and is normally characterized by periods of hypomania (average time for individuals with BP2 is t>4 weeks with highly varied lengths). Rapid cycling is more commonly seen in BP2 as well as longer periods of depression followed by euthymia.

I rarely experience mixed episodes, but my depressive episodes and the residual effects seem to last 2 months +. When I experienced mixed episodes prior to being medicated I estimated that they lasted roughly 2 weeks or more and were generally followed immediately by severe depressive episodes co morbid with anxiety.

Experiencing hallucinations is not necessarily a component of BiPolar and is associated with the Mania of BP1.

Since I experience mixed episodes I am probably a bad person to ask about personal experiences with hypomania as the manifestations of my symptoms may differ greatly with those of others and I am much more familiar with the depressive symptoms except I'm energized lol.

I would be sure to tell this information to your medical practitioner, particularly the information relating to your sleep cycle. Have you ever been examined for a sleep or neurological disorder?

Please take care and speak with a health professional honestly about your symptoms

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All these categories and types and classifications are really too much to take at the moment.

But regardless, yes don't worry I will seek professional opinion the first chance I get.
Have to say that Schizophrenia sounds terrifying, I'd wish almost anything over that, probably the reason why I hope it's BP.
In the end I just hope it's none of that and I'm just a person that happens to have abnormal but relatively stable behavior, relatively to schiz and BP.