you are someone who knows someone with bipolar disorder, or have bipolar disorder, these are things that are hard to explain:
The amazing energy that comes from mania.
Why routine matters so much
The guilty feelings you get after a manic episode
How simple things can be overwhelming
The embarrassment you feel after a manic episode
The reason you can’t leave the house (while depressed)
How hard it is to do simple tasks like showering or cleaning the house (depression)
How your brain moves so quickly you can’t keep up with it
Why you are so irritable
How simple things can be overwhelming (depression)
How stress or anxiety can be triggering for mania or sometimes depression
How tired you are (usually depression) However, it is hard to sleep while manic often. We can go more than a day without sleep.
How hard it is to explain how much we wanted to do something else with our life
How we forget things we did while manic
Medication in general- Why it’s needed, why it needs to be adjusted, and sometimes due to side effects, can’t be taken
(Tardive dyskenesia and akathasia ****
The difference between hypomania and happiness
The importance of sleep
The rapid talking
Depression in general
How you can go from crying to hypomanic in minutes (usually mixed episodes)
How hard it is to be stable and how much we want it
Why we don’t want to be manic (Yes- we are happy and are full of energy, but there are so many repercussions afterwards it is not worth it.)
The anxiety of not knowing when the next episode will be (For example, not being able to plan a trip because you might be too manic and spend money and do things you regret)
The pity party for how our life could have been
How it is hard to even trust your own emotions
Being confused because of how much we forgot while manic and don’t know what to apologize for
How our brains move too quickly to keep up (often why we are talking so quickly
What else can you think of? Pls leave I’m comments.