Your advice please!!

Hey all,

I just recently discovered this forum. I'm so glad I did because now I can finally chat with someone who can relate to what I'm going through. I don't know ANYONE that can even relate.
A little about my story...I was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder a little over a year ago. My docs spent 3 years of trying to treat me for depression and anxiety until finally they had right diagnoses. I went through 4 different gen. practitioners until I found the one I'm with now, who is great. We are working with a psychiatrist to find the right meds for me. I'm curious about a few things. My moods changes were extremely rapid when I wasn't on medication or they got worse on certain medications. I would cycle through being manic, depressed, neutral, and stable multiple times a day. Each would last for maybe an hour or sometimes more. Neutral means I have absolutely no thoughts in my head, don't feel ANY mood, and I don't talk to anyone. I'd feel content to sit and watch paint dry without a single thought going through my head. Does anyone else experience this?? I don't do this now as long Another thing is now instead of that rapid cycling I'm feeling angry, OK, depressed and everything you can think of all at the same time. It's like I go from crying to everything is fine to crying to angry etc within minutes. This is so frustrating and confusing! It's like I can't decide what to feel. There's no significant event that has triggered this. Is this normal??

Hi and welcome to the forum.

In terms of the very rapid switching in moods - it might be that you have some emotional lability as this can be a feature of BP. I think it is worth telling your team about it. I hope we can support you here - it is a friendly place and ppl look out for each other.

Hugs

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