For the women

Soooo, how do you know when you are moody around that time of the month whether it is just PMS, bipolar moodiness, or the bipolar causing pms? I have been in odd moods recently and it is pms time. Not nearly as energetic and hypo like I had been recently, and I did just go up to 900mg of lithium last tuesday. I am more tired, less motivated, slightly down, but still get some anxiety and a general attitude. The attitude doesnt have the physical adrenaline rush stuff with it, more I just feel like being a jerkwad sometimes and harping on people. So I dont know if i am still hypo and the lithium hasnt kicked in fully yet, or if it is PMS. Oh, also, my sensitivities to what people say has went up, more in that rather than react out in anger, I just get an attitude but am really more hurt and can see that I am hurt by whatever at the moment. I am guessing that has to do with other issues, like actually processing my insecurities rather than just acting out because of them. However, this anxiety I get when I put on my makeup, that can go. I never had that before and all of a sudden, everytime I go to put on my makeup I get all anxious. So not sure if maybe I have anxiety issues on top of the bipolar. Would they determine that based on whether or not the anxiety sticks around after the meds are controlling the bipolar? It wouldnt shock me. My mom has anxiety issues, used to have horrible panic attacks, and she said they started around the time she was my age.

I actually improve when the PMS hits.
It's like they cancel each other out.
I just get really horny... which is a problem in itself...
Damn men that don't believe in sex that week... It's not like you can't do it in the shower and it's fine.

I'm done ranting about last week now.

HAHA. I dont have that problem. But I know whatyou mean. I get horny that week as well quite often. But yeah, I definitely PMS. Before I said I PMS'd DMS's(during)and AMS'd (after) Kind of figuring out now maybe it was just symptoms with soem of that!

Still feeling weepy and sensitive though, almost like very mild depression. I swear to God If I am swinging again...normal for 4-5 days and then back into another mood. Its been lovely the past year!!!

I wish I had a normal.
I have a ME, but that really fluctuates...
Me can be bitchy, super happy, vicious... all sorts of things.

::shrug::

Interesting post

I remember reading about a link between PMS, ADHD and BP.
This is the link to the Harvard Bipolar Index: http://www.psycheducation.org/depressio ... yIndex.htm
which proposes that bipolar is a spectrum and things like PMS and ADHD increase the liklihood of having Bipolar.

Personally my mood drops usually just for a few days and goes back to normal again, but if it coincides with a depressed mood for any other reason (like now) it can go to a full blown depression

Usually I get really angry and irritable, which I am(things have been tossed and smashed rather frequently the last few days). Maybe I get weepy. Cant recall. I just know I am now, and I hate it because it feels so girly! I dont like wanting to cry over overly sentimental mush!!!!

Also my tattoo hurt like a *bleep* today. On my foot, already painful. I swear my other foot didnt hurt that badly!!!

Haha- I get like a 70-75 on that! A bipolar I level score. But I am BPII. I just have a very dysphoric sort of BPII, which is really lame. I suppose on a continuim I would probably get on the high end of the BPII spectrum. I just never quite make it to manic, but a few times I have wondered if I was borderline.