is my friend bipolar quiz
Am i bipolar ? all my friends say i am and i have the results…but i dont like them.?
Okay so all of my friends say i am bipolar. everyone says i have a bipolar disorder. I do have mood swings and i find myself angry and depressed most of my time and i am hyper sometimes more then others.
Im only afraid to tell my mom about this. i took quizes ran tests and they all are YES and i do not like those results.
Please tell me how i can tell this to my mom.
You don’t. You tell your mother the symptoms that you are having that are bothering you and you get her to take you to your doctor. Your doctor will do tests to make sure nothing is wrong physically (hormones or thyroid) then if he can’t find anything wrong he can refer you to a psychologist. However…. the online tests are designed so that everyone that takes them comes up positive……….. Bipolar is much much more extreme than being hyper or angry………
People confuse mood with emotion….. mood affects everything about you. Your energy level, sleep patterns, appetite, emotional response (which emotions you feel and how strongly), your judgment, sexual appetite, etc……. Bipolar is not about being happy one minute then sad the next then mad, that is just having emotions….. The mood swings in Bipolar last a very long time, weeks to months to years and the average Bipolar only swings once or twice a year.
People never never understand the true severity of bipolar disorder. They also do not understand that for an “episode” to be considered Bipolar it has to last all day every day for a week……. That’s the minimum, in reality the episodes last for weeks or months or even years. There are cases where a person can have more than one or two episodes a year but it is really rare. There is such a thing as Ultradian cycling in which you cycle multiple times in a day but it is exceptionally rare and there are questiona about whether it is actually Bipolar but instead Borderline PD. Also you HAVE TO HAVE the mania (or hypomania) for it to be bipolar. Without mania it is just recurring depression.
The mood swings in Bipolar do not usually have a trigger, they are not triggered by getting pissed at someone or having something sad happen. They come and go very randomly…… If someone with Bipolar is depressed or manic there is nothing you can do to bring them out of their mood short of medication…..
This is what Bipolar is like for me.
Depression- to tired to get out of bed, shower, brush your teeth….. lie in bed and stare at the ceiling for days at a time, crying a lot, feelings of guilt, and self loathing, may be suicidal but are too tired to even consider planning it, sleep 16 hours a day or more, eating too much or not enough. I get very paranoid and think that people are staring at me and laughing. I feel like people know what I’m thinking.
Manic – over the moon happy or filled with uncontrollable rage, hypersexual (like masturbating 10 times a day or sleeping with numerous men, strangers, your cousin…….decide you are bi because then there are twice as many people to have sex with, decide you are into BDSM and contract to be someones slave for a week), spending your mortgage money on african violets (or some other useless things), driving your car 120 mph, grandiose thoughts (like thinking you can put a new furnace in your house by yourself, or thinking that you can be the president), quitting your job because you are buying lottery tickets with your last paycheck and you know you will win…… only sleep 2 or 3 hours a night and feel completely rested, can’t concentrate, racing thoughts (it sounds like 50 people in your head all talking at the same time), talk really fast and loud because your mouth can’t keep up with our mind. Drug or alcohol abuse is common.
Again, this has to last for a minimum of a week to be considered a bipolar episode. Everyone with Bipolar is a little different and at the severe end it includes hallucinations and delusions.
