does anyones mania cycle cronic worry

[billgonz1]

does any one ealse have a manic state where thay worry constantly?   billgonz1

[Delusion]

Kind of both but what they call hypomania and depression i cycle between very very fast many times in the same 24 hours, real depression like in the past when ive been suicidal or hallucinating often lasts longer, i always seem to drop into bad depression after a bit of a manic high in my mind i always guessed it was just my head balencing itself out. I hate bp i wish i was just boring old normal

[SiberCats]

I haven't totally figured the coping part yet!  I also was recently diagnosed as BPII so I am still in the state of finally understanding my behavior!  It explains so much about me and my thoughts.  I am lucky that I think my "mania" is less severe than others.  

I still try to discern (actually obsess about it) what is actually my personality and what are the symptoms of being bi-polar.  I think mostly I am the same person but the bi-polar aggrevates some of my personality traits?  

I have been on Lamactil for 8 weeks now and it has definitely helped the depression, to the point that so far I have only had three bad days since I started.  But the mania hasn't quite lessened yet.  The only thing that helps is understanding it.  But I think understanding will eventually help me turn off the thinking when it happens.  Sort of like recongnizing the problem was 1/2 of the problem.  Hope this helps!

[billgonz1]

That is how I'm seeing things . How do you cope . I'm a newby . Today is first day I feel better since meds. started.

[SiberCats]

I have experienced hypomania where I can't get my brain to shut off.  I was originally diagnosed with OCD becuase of obsessive thoughts.  I also worry, I call it obsessing, about conversations I have had, what people think about me, and other things.  i can't seem to stop once I get something going in my head.   Sometimes I am agitated and feel like I have had too much caffine.

[PenelopeAnn]

Do you experience manic and depressive symptoms alternating, like you are cycling super rapidly, or do you experience manic and depressive symptoms simultaneously? Just curious. I feel them simultaneously. I do rapid cycle in a matter of 3 days up, 3 days down, where the symptoms are separate.

[Delusion]

Yep mixed states are roughly 50% of my life and time i would say and i do worry a lot, i cycle fast but its very rare for me to be 'normal' inbetween a high and a low, i find im mixed most of the time then completely manic out my mind then in tears or sometimes the other way around. Mixed state while not a very fancy name is much more descriptive and useful than agitated depression i think because it really is mixed.

[PenelopeAnn]

Yeah. I have heard this called agitated depression. I have heard it called a mixed state. I have heard the terms used interchangeably,  and I have heard them described as two seperate entities.

Sometimes when I am depressed, I worry, pace, fiddle and twist my clothes, ruminate and can't sleep, but I am not in a mixed state. For me, one form of mixed state is feeling the same racing of thoughts and the pressure to be physically active, just like when it is a euphoric state of mind like mania, but with the mixed it is dysphoric state of mind. In other words, racing thoughts, physically restless, but the content of the thoughts are very negative rather than positive. I also get mixed states that are the opposite, calm and slow and suicidal with a euphoric state of mind. Crazy, ain't it? It is not unusual to have anxiety with depression.

[jimgreg]

yes im the same as  lagatta..mine are usually thoughts that overwhelm me..and it everyday at some point of the day..sometime real bad ,some not...like i go see my new pdoc tommrow obsessing over being there...james

[lagatta]

Yup.  As well as bp2, I also have obsessive-compulsive disorder (mainly thoughts).  Usually my ocd occurs when I'm in a mixed, anxious state.