#bipolar posting

need to form a fucked-up, unhealthily attached and codependent friendship with somebody right now‼️‼️

Something I’m very interested in is how people with bipolar experience “the switch”. I really rarely see it talked about, but surely it must be a pretty major part of it? I know that often there’s periods between mania and depression that aren’t specifically either, but that’s a switch in itself, and for me at least I do tend to get depression straight after mania. For me it often happens when I’m asleep, or maybe just gradually enough that it’s quite hard to notice. One particularly awful time it literally was just like flipping a switch, one second I was buzzing (though in that I’ve-been-manic-for-weeks-and-want-to-die way) and suddenly I was having what felt like a panic attack, I was hallucinating, and then I spent the next few weeks in bed bc of the worst depressive episode I ever had.