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butterfliess11
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The difference
Bipolar, Schizophrenia & Psychosis Support / by butterfliess11
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 September 8th, 2021
...See more Hey, can someone help me understand the difference between hypomania and general happiness/calm i am 28 and have suffered from anxiety and depression, my anxiety took a turn for the worse recently when researching google. I now am convinced I may have bipolar or the milder form. This is because I have weeks where I feel calm and able to control my anxiety and then I will have a period of time that I struggle and my anxiety peaks again , I worry about everything and can’t stop. This brings on feelings of sadness because I feel so anxious. typed up and down moods into google, it came up with bipolar, my therapist and doctor think it isn’t in fact are sure it’s not but I’m concerned they are missing something. What is the difference between feeling ok and happy to hypomanic? any one that can help me try and sort my head out would be appreciated. many thanks
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Anxiety and fearing
Anxiety Support / by butterfliess11
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 September 19th, 2021
...See more Hey all, I wanted to throw some of my worries out there and see what others think, maybe it can help me to get a prospective on my own anxiety a little better. I have struggle since a very young age with anxiety, in many different levels and at different Stages of my life. recently my anxiety took a different turn, I now have this extreme feeling that I have something worse wrong with me, that it isn’t just anxiety it’s something else. My fear started one day when I typed into google ‘moods going up and down’ the results came back with bipolar disorder, since then I have become fixated on the fact I have bipolar. I struggle with depression which goes hand in hand with my anxiety. I can have weeks where I feel ok, then suddenly I’m anxious again and my mood sinks. This lend me to believe that it is bipolar? Or maybe the milder form (can’t spell it 😂) im 28 and see a therapist weekly, she has told me she thinks it’s not bipolar and that I’m just very anxious . ‘My fear is are they wrong? Do I have something they are missing and if that’s the case will I just keep fearing this. I want to start a family with my partner, we recently married and it’s been my life dream to be a mom, I’m too scared to incase my ups and downs mean I am bipolar? I guess I should explain my ups and downs more. Sometimes I feel calm, like I have control over my anxiety and other times I can’t help but feel so anxious and then I get really down. My mood drops and I feel awful for a while. I wouldn’t say I go really high, or really low but it’s not nice for me. It’s enough to make me upset. maybe someone feels the same way? And can help me? i feel silly writing this but it’s ruining my life, I wake up and it’s the first thing I think about, then all day it doesn’t leave me. I spend hours googling it doing test online and trying to figure it out. Are are my mood swings normal and feel not normal because I’m over sensitive with the anxiety? I don’t know how to get myself out this loop, doctors say they don’t think it’s bipolar yet I’m scared again they are getting it wrong. Why am I so up and down? any help or support would be appreciated.
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