• gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Never had full-blown mania. I’m a rapid-cycling bipolar with existential depression. I’m like a fucking metronome with a 4 week cycle and, yes, I know exactly what that sounds like.

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      1 day ago

      rapid cycling bipolar with existential depression

      Well there’s a label I’ve never heard before. I thought rapid cycling was when you cycled between mania and clinical depression, which sounds like an absolute nightmare. I mean being bipolar is hard enough as it is

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        22 hours ago

        That’s why I ground myself in Buddhism and Taoism. It’s just about the only thing keeping me here.

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      24 hours ago

      Losing hypomania may well be the hardest part of getting “stable,” outside of still feeling the cycle but just more muted. I’m sorry, friend.