Are You Acting A Bit Bipolar?
Bipolar disorder is all about highs and lows. Sometimes, you feel like you’re the king of the world. Other times, you feel like you’re the grime on the boots of the king of the world. The way that a bipolar person behaves varies between the disorders various stages.
Bipolar behavior is usually characterized with emotional inconsistency not seen since PMS. In any case, two particular stages of bipolar disorder happen the longest, and they’re called mania and depression. Hypomania (either a burst of pure excitement and elation or, more rarer, a blunted feeling of apathy), also occurs, but is usually short-lived. During this time, the bipolar person is in his best behavior.
From there, the person becomes manic (hence the term “mania”); that is, he becomes very hyperactive and excitable. A bipolar may keep himself constantly in motion during this time, burning up hours with a myriad of tasks and activities with a sense of misplaced urgency for hours on end with inexhaustible energy, like a child going through sugar rush.
What follows mania, naturally, is a burned out bipolar sufferer. From here, the next phase enters the fray, which is the stage of depression. Fatigued and exhausted, the bipolar person soon avoids all social contact, withdrawing into his shell.
In the depressed state, the reclusive individual expresses loss of interest in sexual activity, shyness or social anxiety, irritability, anger, isolation and/or hopelessness, disturbances in sleep and appetite, fatigue and loss of interest in usually enjoyed activities; a gray rainbow of depressive emotions.
Once this down state ends, the person goes back to either the hypomanic state or the more dangerous manic state. This self-destructive cycle usually repeats itself until the person couldn’t take it anymore, often leading to suicide. This type of disorder should be acknowledged and treated as soon as possible, because without treatment there’s only one other way for a bipolar person to escape his see-saw of emotions.
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