My Bipolar Symptoms Aren’t Your Symptoms: I’m More Bipolar Than You
If you’ve been reading me for a while, you’re probably familiar with the symptoms I typically experience as a bipolar:
- Fatigue
- Sadness / depression / tearing
- Hypersomnia
- Anhedonia
- Lack of motivation / concentration
- Slowness in thinking
- Thoughts of death
- Decreased need for sleep
- Excessive speed talking / thinking
- Increased productivity
Each symptom depending on the mood of the moment (blue being depression, yellow being hypomania).
However, did you know that someone’s list might look like this:
- Irritability
- Weight loss
- Insomnia
- Restlessness. agitation
- Feelings of guilt
- Indecisiveness
- More goal-directed activity
- Spending sprees
- Inflated self-esteem
That is totally different from my list, and yet we’re still both bipolar. The diagnosis “bipolar” is more of a big-tent thing. It’s the clumping of people with group of symptoms into a group called bipolar, but each person in the group is still unique.
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