I might be wrong, but that doesn't sound like bi polar disorder at all. From what I remember, bi polar has different phases (manic and depressive), and a phase usually lasts days, maybe even weeks or months. There are variations of bi polar, but even cyclo episodes last longer than three minutes.


By antisocial do you mean you just don't like social interactions, or that you are a sociopath?

To name some.

Aspergers Syndrome (I've taken to calling it Han's Syndrome), Some paranoia in social interaction (Properly paranoid I say ), and perhaps a bit of narcissism (in one of my more manic periods).

Quite possibly Schizotypal, and at worst might be considered to have Anti-Social P.D.

I don't like social ineractions at all and no I'm not a sociopath. Maybe I should research these things a bit more before posting next time.

my psychologist was cracked but ive been on the meds for years and never had an outburst
so i think the meds were more helping my mental anger

social phobia, ocd, depression and anxiety

According to an internet test I am certifiably average.

According to an internet test I should be locked away lol. I wouldnt trust those things... Theyre probably in on it too

Addiction. But I'm getting help.

AA has helped me a lot, I don't know where I'd be without it.

Yup, steelshot is right. Even ultradian cycling (extremely quick, quite rare) takes place over the course of a day, not minutes or seconds (and, SS, SilverEagle said "three seconds", not "three minutes"). Normally an episode will last at least a few days, and can indeed stretch into months if untreated. Highs, whether full on mania or 'merely' hypomania, are usually followed by a period of depression which will generally be longer than the high. People coming out of depression will sometimes overshoot 'normal' and end up hypomanic or manic, too.

Media portrayals of 'bipolar' are almost always either completely wrong or closer to borderline personality disorder, which is a very different illness. They do both have mood swings, but the causes, timeframe, and moods involved aren't the same (well, they both get depression, but even that is sort of different).


BTW, I will mentally dismiss any claims to illnesses unless the claimant has actually been diagnosed by a professional psychologist or psychiatrist. 'Course, even if they do I'll retain some degree of reservations, since this is the internet .

Mild anxiety, depression, the usual for me. It varies on some days. I'm moody.

so your both telling me,ive been on bipolar medication for 9 years for no reason?!

if he wasnt dead i would sue

No, I'm saying the incident you described does not sound at all like an example of bipolar affective disorder. Especially since you were a teenager at the time, and teenagers have plenty of hormones they can blame for such things.

If your diagnosis hinged on just that one event, then whoever diagnosed you was shockingly incompetent . Did you simply pick a bad example? Having a look at http://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/public/bipolardisorder/bipolardisorderexplained/index.cfm (reputable organisation, based in a university, that focuses on mood disorder research) might jog your memory .

Hopefully not, there are a lot of misdiagnoses of bi polar, so there is a chance. Like sam said, it could have just been a bad example you picked. If this overall was the reason you were diagnosed, I would find a different medical opinion. Don't go off of our advice alone though!

Antipsychotic medication is pretty powerful stuff, don't stop taking it now, but if you can avoid taking it it would probably be better (unless the doctor thinks you need it).

Who knows? I've never seen a professional so I've never been diagnosed with anything. That means I'm totally sane, yep.

I'm probably a schizoid though.

I've never been diagnosed with anything, mostly because I have never asked.

I am rather certain I have been going through vary-ing degrees of depression since I split up with my ex almost 5 years ago.

And there is an itsy-bitsy chance a professional might think I have a bit of a drinking problem.

50% chance to get http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzAPh2v-SCQ and die a horribly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCVO9c9q4tE death over the course of a decade. Cheers!

ADHD.

I think I also have some kind of disorder where the most insignificant of things piss me off. The sight of a car turning the corner down the stree, someone walking on the same sidewalk as me, and [censored] crowds. [censored] CROWDS.

... or maybe I am normal? It doesn't seem normal though, since I am the only person that gets as irritated as I do about it.

I actually made a thread about it a couple years back, but most people labeled it merely as Teen Angst. I don't believe that as much as I did back than anymore.

Asperger's (although might be recategorized as "mild/high-functioning/borderline autism" if the DSM-V revision eliminates the Asperger diagnosis as they say it will), depression, OCD, anxiety, one doctor also recently suspected that I may have ADD as well...

Tim (aka the Slipperman)

Like The.Z.Man, I think people are over-diagnosed (and over-medicated) these days.

I have pretty intense claustrophobia and some very slight agoraphobia. I used to get panic attacks, unrelated to the phobias, about two years ago, but I've now made them vanish. I'm all better!


I've always been under the impression that Asperger's and related conditions preclude any mental illness, other than, perhaps, "mild" anxiety-related ones.

Nothing severe, although I am a bit OCD and I've always been very anxious, but I think that's just my personality. You'd never know it if you met me. I mask my feelings very well.

Advanced delusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage.

Seriously though, I suffer from severe ADHD, but the social problems I was told I would have without medication, back when I lived in the states, had been greatly embellished by pill pushing doctors. Instead, I'm aware of the caveats, so is my wife, and my family, and they simply accept that I'm a bit more eccentric, that I'm rather quick to jump on patterns of behaviour rather quickly, and that having a conversation with me is bound to deviate into 5,000 varying sub-topics without finishing what was originally being talked about.

Borderline Personality Disorder, and it's rarely diagnosed in (straight) men:(

Inferiority complex, depression, megalomania... and a dozen more I don't know names for.

OCD tendencies have been flaring up something shocking with Skyrim. Been playing it A LOT but haven't finished the main quest because i have to restart the game if make the TINIEST mistake.

Spent hours a few days ago repeating the same thing over and over again because i was terrified my OCD would force me to restart if it decided i had made a mistake.