Tell me about your experiences with Bipolar disorder.

This is a trick question right? I think every female is a psych visit away from being diagnosed.

You'll get more misinformation than anything here, but I do have a family member that has it.

bottom line, it's hell. total emotional roller coaster

If its a family member with it, best of luck. It will take a lot out of you over the years.

Dated a girl who had it during college.

After we broke up, she one night broke into my parents house (during summer and while they were gone and I was there alone). And threatened to cut herself in front of me with a fairly large knife.

We argued, and somehow I said at one point "frick this, I'm going to bed." And I left her downstairs. She came upstairs later and she did cut herself, just not on the wrist or anything.

Her breaking into the house was pretty damn scary though. She rang the doorbell literally 60 times. I should have called the cops.

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You're not an emotional roller coaster if you're on the right meds

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they aren't medicated

She sounds borderline, not bipolar

There's actually a lot of overlap and misdiagnosis

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Tell me about your experiences with Bipolar disorder.

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What Type are you asking about? They are VERY different depending on the Type.

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This is a trick question right? I think every female is a psych visit away from being diagnosed.

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My experience is that most people that make jokes like this have never seen mental illness, and they don't realize that bipolar is very different than being very happy and very sad.

I've seen people in manic states that didn't sleep for several days on end. Lots of them go out and gamble pretty frequently. They kind of lose track of caring about things they were supposed to do, but they're so focused on these other things that they "have" to do that it doesn't really matter to them. Usually they get the police called on them who bring them to the ER which ships them off to a psych unit. They'll hang out in a psych hospital until they come down, get back on their meds, and go about their way. They can be pretty normal people when they take their meds on a regular basis. But when they don't, it can be a pretty crazy ride. Mania is no joke.


ETA: I've come across a few that are more aggressive in their manic states than anything else. They just seem like real assholes and like to argue with everyone about everything.

Well shite. Im bipolar. All this time I thought I just sucked at golf.