Posted by amy_oz on October 29, 2002, at 23:24:07
Hi,
I was trying to explain my depression to someone recently. He did not get it at all!! So I asked him if he had ever had any consistent thoughts/feelings that he genuinely believed at the time but knew later weren't true. He said yes there have been times that he thought he was magical and all powerful (not drug induced!). This is a person who is constantly on the go and is not capable of sitting still. My instant reaction at the time was sounds a little like mania........but he's 50 and claims he has never has suffered from depression.So it got me thinking....Does anyone know of uni-polar mania or bipolar with far more mania than deprssion?? Doesn't seem to be anywhere in the literature. Every other form of mood disorder along the spectrum exists why not this one? Is the fact that its not reported because people are unlikely to go their doctor and say "hey I think I'm amazing can you help"?
hmm...... another thought maybe ADD or even GAD is kinda like a unipolar dysphoric mania considering that there is a massive overlap between GAD ADD and bipolarII and everything else that seem to have labels on these days...
and if unipolar hypomania exists where can I get some?? maybe I should stop thinking and get back to workoh well
Amy
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