bipolar concept

it sure sounds like a delusion to me!

i’m not sure but i think while having a delusion is not possible to know that it’s false. but i always realize they are false when i stop having my episodes.

A lot of people can’t remember what they did during episodes, me included!

A thing that is really important in order to be diagnosed with any sort of mental illness is if it affects you in a significant way. He can have “symptoms” and not necessarily they will cause significant impairment of his activities, as your symptoms have caused.

aww i’m so glad to hear this :)

bipolar can manifest in a lot of ways and you are no less valid than other people

Bipolar disorder can manifest itself in different ways.

-Bipolar I: a person has at least one manic episode lasting at least a week. He or she also has multiple episodes of major depression. Time spent with depressive symptoms, may outnumber time spent with mania symptoms by about 3 to 1.-Bipolar II: a person has a milder form of mania, called hypomania, lasting several days or longer. Periods of depression, though, outnumber the time spent with symptoms of hypomania by almost 40 to 1 in many people with this form of the disorder. Because hypomania can be mistaken for ordinary happiness or even normal functioning, bipolar II may often be misdiagnosed as depression alone (unipolar depression).-Bipolar disorder not otherwise specified (more recently called "not elsewhere classified"), people have symptoms of mania or hypomania that are too few in number or too short in duration to meet currently accepted definitions of a manic or hypomanic syndrome or episode.-Cyclothymic disorder (sometimes unofficially called bipolar III), a person has hypomanias (as in bipolar II disorder) that alternate frequently with brief periods of depression. When present, though, the symptoms of depression do not last long enough and involve enough symptoms to define major depression as a full syndrome.

Hypomanic episodes are characterized by:

A. A distinct period of abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood, lasting at least 1 week (or any duration if hospitalization is necessary)B. During the period of mood disturbance, three (or more) of the following symptoms have persisted (4 if the mood is only irritable) and have been present to a significant degree: (1) increased self-esteem or grandiosity (2) decreased need for sleep (e.g., feels rested after only 3 hours of sleep) (3) more talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking (4) flight of ideas or subjective experience that thoughts are racing (5) distractibility (i.e., attention too easily drawn to unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli) (6) increase in goal-directed activity (either socially, at work or school, or sexually) or psychomotor agitation (7) excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences (e.g., engaging in unrestrained buying sprees, sexual indiscretions, or foolish business investments)"

The difference between manic and hypomanic episodes is that manic episodes cause psychotic symptoms (such as hallucinations).