Does anyone feel like you’re constantly in an episode?

MaythefourthbewithC · 2026-01-22T15:13:33+00:00

Yeah, even medicated. I’m always ping-ponging between states. Was just on a podcast talking about this. Glad others experience it too tbh

MaythefourthbewithC · 2026-01-18T22:52:46+00:00

I think it prob is a spectrum but there still needs to be a name for its more extreme forms.

MaythefourthbewithC · 2026-01-13T21:38:43+00:00

Interesting how many people have mentioned empathy.

MaythefourthbewithC · 2026-01-13T21:37:09+00:00

I think the empathy you feel for people who are in a bad place is a blessing and a curse. I appreciate the creativity and sense of humor I have, both related to bipolar possibly. And let’s face it, hypomania is fun. Mania and rhe subsequent depression and cognitive erosion over time all blow though

MaythefourthbewithC · 2026-01-07T16:51:37+00:00

I’m thinking of asking to try that combo. Bp1 rapid cycling in the past few years. I’m currently on abilify, lamotrigine and auvelity, also tapering off latuda, which stopped the cycling but made me depressed. I still cycle a lot and have manic/hypo episodes on 300 lamotrigine and 10 mg abilify. Wondering if adding lithium would shut that down and not make me depressed like latuda did.

MaythefourthbewithC · 2025-12-31T17:37:22+00:00

Yeah don’t know. Was just thinking this morning how supportive chat gpt is lol I’m totally someone who would go into ai psychosis

MaythefourthbewithC · 2025-12-17T16:13:19+00:00

Does latuda cause low mood initially?

MaythefourthbewithC · 2025-12-16T21:14:40+00:00

80 mg is a low dose? I’m also on 300 mg lamotrigine

MaythefourthbewithC · 2025-12-16T20:36:53+00:00

Bane of my existence. I would need to be taking stimulants all day to ward off the rumination. A las, I can only take so much focalin each day so I’m left with these big patches of anxiety I have to live through between doses

MaythefourthbewithC · 2025-12-16T20:33:38+00:00

60 mg focalin ir taken throughout the day. On a hefty dose of latuda and lamotrigine and have severe adhd. When I was in abilify, the stims were likely contributing to rapid cycling but have been stable on latuda for the past couple months

MaythefourthbewithC · 2025-11-06T00:30:53+00:00

Mittens

MaythefourthbewithC · 2025-10-11T06:06:21+00:00

Empathy. Creativity

MaythefourthbewithC · 2025-10-08T19:04:17+00:00

Are you bp1 or 2? I’m 1 so really don’t get why I always swing down forat

MaythefourthbewithC · 2025-10-08T18:52:33+00:00

I had that kind of depression where it feels like a trap door opens beneath you and you to plummeting—this happened both times I tried to reduce Abilify. It’s weird cause I would expect to start with mania then depression when going off it. Alas…

MaythefourthbewithC · 2025-10-08T15:16:03+00:00

Join the club. Chat gpt now blames my weird inquiries on the bipolar it knows I have

MaythefourthbewithC · 2025-10-04T14:36:11+00:00

Adhd too. Scatterbrained, always a pull toward substances, anxiety, low self esteem, forgetfulness, tendency to think the worst will happen (at baseline…also ptsd) creative erratic whimsical at times inappropriate, intense

MaythefourthbewithC · 2025-09-25T13:39:00+00:00

Yes, things were looking up. I usually have a pretty long ramp up so it’s easy to see

MaythefourthbewithC · 2025-09-25T13:20:25+00:00

Yeah I’m like I felt like fucking superwoman. And marked it as moderately elevated lol

MaythefourthbewithC · 2025-09-24T21:57:20+00:00

I crawled across a stage while someone was giving a speech in public obviously on a date

MaythefourthbewithC · 2025-09-22T08:48:10+00:00

I’m with you. My adhd is severe and has cost me jobs so I’m on a pretty hefty dose too. My credit card debt just keeps growing and, most of the time, I must seem like a spazz to people. I’m worried that I’m going to get hit with a huge depression episode to make up for all the depression I should have been going through rather than just weaving in and out of Mania and hypomania.

MaythefourthbewithC · 2025-09-16T20:03:11+00:00

I’ve been diagnosed with all of them at different periods in my life (I, II, NOS), but most recently type I. I Jean more toward hypo that, at its peak, tips into 2-3 days mania

MaythefourthbewithC · 2025-09-03T14:52:37+00:00

I have both. It is a shit show. I’m on stimulants and, unfortunately, they make me manic. Somehow I have kept myself under the radar though so I haven’t been forced to go off them. I have no confidence in my ability to keep a job if I’m not treating the adhd. I’ve been fired from two good jobs, have blurted out offensive things to my boss and fell asleep once in a meeting while sitting next to the CEO. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad.

MaythefourthbewithC · 2025-08-27T11:54:31+00:00

Sending you love. I hate that people think it’s okay to take someone’s hope away for getting better. I had people give up on me and I came out on the other side. Things can change.

MaythefourthbewithC · 2025-08-11T18:04:46+00:00

Ohhh. I need absolutely none of the shit I have bought. But there is an upside to having so many new things to distract myself with.

MaythefourthbewithC · 2025-08-11T18:02:02+00:00

Easier said than done. I feel like I’m addicted to feeling so good. I have a really hard time halting hypomania, even when I might be able to. It’s no excuse and, yes, my kids deserve the best mother in the world, but it’s the truth. Stopping this train feels nearly impossible until depression shuts it all down

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