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bipolar flare-up

Can a stressful environment at work with an extreme workload aggravate or bring about bipolar tendencies that were never diagnosed till now?
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337492 tn?1212458836
OH YEAH...absolutly.  Stress has always thrown my moods and I always wondered why.....when I got diagnosed it made so much darn sense!!!   If I had heavy stress I would have, at the time, hypomania to get it all done and then crash into a low spell.  When I started working a high stress retail job around the holidays, on top of attending college full time it went BAM, into full mania and that is how they found out I was not un-polar but bipolar!  
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432009 tn?1304749841
Good question - you might want to post this to Dr, Gould, the Medical Expert in the Mental Health Forum, too.
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