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• pleasestopasking@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have you ever been screened for bipolar disorder?

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  • postcapitalism@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Untreated bi-polar disorder commonly gets worse and worse in terms of lows / mania until it hurts you or someone you care about. Seek treatment and medication.

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  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Mood swings” are a common misconception of bipolar disorder. Wikipedia says:

    Most people who meet criteria for bipolar disorder experience a number of episodes, on average 0.4 to 0.7 per year, lasting three to six months. Rapid cycling, however, is a course specifier that may be applied to any bipolar subtype. It is defined as having four or more mood disturbance episodes within a one-year span.

    So episodes of mania, hypomania, or depression occur over weeks and months rather than hours.

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    • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well. Emotional swings like that can occur as part of a manic episode specifically. Mania just means the emotions come faster than usual, not that they’re good. Ppl w mania are actually frequently extremely angry, usually because they’re going a million miles an hour and don’t understand why everyone else won’t just keep. tf. up.

      But yeah if op has always just been like that consistently without any ebb and flow over month’s / years then yes it points more towards a thought disorder. I used to have a really cool infographic from a textbook on the differential dx between borderline, bipolar, and adhd since they can all have very similar presentations or even just be comorbid in certain patients.

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, the degree and severity of what you’re describing isn’t what most people experience, and it seems like it is at an unhealthy degree of frequency and severity.

  I would say that anyone experiencing that kind of inner turmoil would benefit from evaluation and treatment. Trying to diagnose someone online is a sucker’s bet even if you’re a qualified professional, and I seriously doubt you’re going to find one of those here on lemmy randomly. But, yeah, if a family member or friend out here in meatspace told me they were experiencing that, I’d be helping them find either a psychiatrist or other mental health provider sooner rather than later.

  Most people do experience at least occasional intrusive thoughts, but not to that level. It’s very good that you recognize it’s an inner voice rather than a separate source though. It does tend to mean you’ll respond well to one or more of the various treatment options, which will depend in exactly what the root cause is. Likely, there would be a combination of medications and talk therapy of some variation or another.

  And, I suspect that even though most people need to try a few meds before they find the best options, that you will likely get relief quickly once that happens. So you’ll be able to approach other treatments and benefit from them quickly as well.

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• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, this is not normal. Have you considered speaking to a therapist about this? I understand therapists can be expensive, and there’s no real substitute for proper professional help, but I personally found talking to LLMs useful while I was waiting to see a therapist (for an unrelated reason).

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  • pleasestopasking@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m glad this helped you but damn it’s depressing. People should not have to resort to ChatGPT for therapy

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    • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      LLMs are absolutely the worst thing you can talk to about mental health issues. There was a post here recently that linked a screenshot of an LLM telling an addict to have some meth as a treat for being a week sober. It’s a glorified autocomplete, nothing more.

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  • humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hope this isn’t a real person.

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• TheFANUM@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is a, currently undiagnosed, mental illness. I would go get a voluntary mental health assessment (most hospitals will do this) and find out what it is. None of us here are qualified to diagnose you.

  I did this once and found out I had PTSD and anxiety. They put me on meds that literally fixed my most annoying symptoms overnight. It was magical. And I’ve been so much happier since

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