hi i am new to this board? And just been told i have got cyclothymic disorder or bipolor 3 ? has any body got it as well?

Hi BTG

Glad you came over. What exactly is this disorder. Can you explain more ?

Lizzy XX

Hi lizzy thanks for repling?
It is when you have lots of mood swings which can happen over a few hours some times it is very up and down it is not nice.
And you do not no where you are from one mintue to the next it bad and that is why i wonder if any body else new any thing?
b t g

Hi BTG,

Cyclothymic disorder can be very frustrating. If your moods are fluctuating that dramatically in a matter of hours, for no apparent reason, you would probably want to have your condition stablilised. Are you being treated for it, and do you have a good support network?

Hopefully someone who suffers from it will come along and say "Hi", so that the 2 of you can compare experiences.

Neverhteless, most people here have experience with mood disorders of some sort, predominantly depression, so I am sure they will understand how you are feeling, and will be able to give you a lot of support.

Best wishes,
Chrys. http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/smile.gif

Hi BTG I was married to a bipolor lady(15YRS) and now I am living with another one(3YRS). You should be treated. I am sure you know that many famous people have been bipolar(search the net) This can be treated! good luck!

hi.....the others gave good advice as always http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/smile.gif i haven't been diagnoised with bi-polar but my moods change alot also but maybe thats just me. who know's.
i wish you the best of luck and your gonna get on the right medicine and do great http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/smile.gif

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I also have cyclothimia my moods are crazy right now I just cleaned my kitchen and my bedroom.. its a manic/bipolar is what I was told.. but something in me is changing I am not the same person I was I am totally awake and could not sleep if I tried.. hang in there and keep me posted..
Renee'

Hi, Im new to this board, but not to bipolar.
Cyclothymia is a version that lasts about 2-3 yrs and is less severe, but more frequent in mood swings. After 2 or 3 yrs, drs typically diagnose bipolar 1 or 2. Bipolar disorder used to be known as manic depression, but the name was changed because of misconceptions by the general public. Treatment is essential, because without it the disorder tends to become progressively worse. Treatment can be a difficult process however, because each individual differs in their reactions to the available methods. I hope that you will find your therapist and/or dr helpful in this process, and that both therapy and treatment will be a positive and easy step for you.
Meanwhile, keep posting here as adequate support can be invaluable.

thank you everyone, i feel really bad today i have not been very well.
i just feel like crying.
but at least i am sleeping

Keep your chin up BTG. You'll get through this. It's tough, I know, but you just gotta hang in there. Take each it day by day, hour by hour and minute by minute. Set backs and "down" days suck but hopefully tomorrow will be a better one.

Lilmissme http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/heart.gif

So I'm not the only one who gets compulsive sometimes?
I was depressed about a few things, so I cleaned my entire apartment, decided to look for pictures I put away, tore the whole place apart doing so, got frustrated & threw things, & then cleaned the whole place again! Overnight!! I just couldn't sleep. The sleeping thing doesn't happen often, but the compulsive "have to keep busy & clean" thing is on & off. I only spaz like that when I think about winning back my ex-boyfriend. He's the love of my life & it kills me to not be with him anymore.
I was diagnosed with bi-polar (Doc didn't tell me which one though) & part of my problem was that I spent money like it was nothing, I even spent money I didn't have. Too bad I didn't spend it on bills. Early last year I had my car (our only transportation) repossessed AFTER I filed bankruptcy, & I just turned 25 this Nov. We lived together so....unpaid bills? Someone had to pay them....(I feel awful about how I behaved) He had had it with the money & left me in Jan of this year. He said maybe I could have another chance if I cleaned up my finances & got myself straightened out. Now anytime I think about that I go ballistic cleaning, organizing & re-organizing, I'll write out cheques for bills WAY in advance (the ones that are the same every month), I'll clean out my fridge & throw out old stuff, go thru my clothes & throw stuff in a pile that I haven't worn in like 6 mos & do massive loads of laundry....etc.
I had wondered if this was normal. Is it?

Hello everyone,

I wanted to tell SilverWillow yes it is normal for now. I think you have to just give yourself a break and if you are going to clean all night that's okay for now. I used to stay up all night writing lists. I don't do that anymore. Please just know that one day it will be different. It took me a long time but am okay now. Are you in treatment? After I got off medications, ate the correct foods and got exercise daily I started living a normal life but it took a long time to get there. Please take care and keep us posted. pinkcat

I haven't been diagnosed with bi polar but I definitely know about the mood swings. I go from one mood to the so much that I don't know how I really feel.

Silverwillow, I do the cleaning thing also. I give so many clothes away that I hardly have any myself. I don't have the money spending thing though. Most of the time I don't even have any money to spend, but when I do I obsess over ways to make it last. I'm a huge budget freak. I'm also a list maker. I can't start any projects until I have a list made out with every step written down in the order that they need to be done. Crazy huh?

Larissa

i also was just diagnoised with cyclothmia recently im taking depakote and rispidual and sleeping pill.im am doing the pshciatry thing with medicines will see what happens they say doing both together is better for you.its helped so far with me.you know i had my first hypomanic episode other day yes it freaked me out it lasted for day and half hopefully i wont have one like that any time soon.

:angel: hi i am new to this board? And just been told i have got cyclothymic disorder or bipolor 3 ? has any body got it as well?hi there im new here too, i was wondering how old you are its just that we at present waiting for a phychiatrist to diagnose my 14 year old daughter with what we suspect is cyclothmia. its like bipolar but not as severe . my daughter constantly fluctuates between aggressive moods to silly moods to just a little down to confident back to moody to agressive and its hell . often she knows afterwards whats happened she just cant control whats hapening and why shes doing it . shes had mood swings and signs of depression for about three years now, and i just prey that we can get her help . the dsm manual is rubbish and should be outdated. children and adolecents should come into a special category when being diagnosed. i was wondering do you find it hard to keep friends and do you often get bored with activities and projects . id love to hear and compare notes with you . so releived i found this site . bless you seeangel:angel:

OK, I too am new, and I too have BP, I have read all the post and have seen mentioned a couple of times that with the right meds you can lead a normal life...... I haven't met or heard of that happening to anyone with BP (except one person who was doing their hardest to convert me to 'the cure' of BP, Christianity) At best their MAYBE a cure for some, in others it could of been and original misdiagnosis. Am I missing somthing ?

Trish.

hi, i'm new here and i was wondering if someone could help me with this too. when i read the symptoms of cyclothymic disorder i feel it explains a lot of my life and describes how i am, but then sometimes i think i'm making a bigger deal out of things and trying to see something that isn't there.

basically i have very high moods, where i'll be super motivated, confident, set unrealistic goals, be very creative, be very productive, deluded, hyper, have racing thoughts, have giddy, nervous laughter at really inappropriate moments (like in front of my class - i work as a teacher). then i'll get depressed and anxious and won't be able to face people, sleep all the time, hate myself, the world etc. think about death a lot. not really suicidal, but about dying being this great release from things, how i would choose to die.
i am really easily distracted, to the point that i become pretty much useless, get obsessed over stupid things like using the internet, watching a certain programme. but obsessed over stuff i don't really care about, just like i HAVE to do it. my flat is either immaculate or disgustingly dirty. sometimes i can be the life and soul of a party and be hating it, hating everyone there and thinking how stupid they all are.
sometimes i feel like i don't know whether the way i am is because it's ME or this 'other thing'. when i'm hyper i get really bad mood swings. i have a lot of times where i feel so isolated and think that no one could possibly understand this feeling i'm talking about. one minute i'm fine, the next i can't stop crying and it scares me because i don't know where this feeling is coming from. then i have times where i feel pretty 'medium' and 'normal'. i push people away and tend to start feeling like i hate them even if i really love them.

anyway it's just so difficult to talk to people about this here. could anyone tell me whether this might be cyclothymia? sorry this is such a long post. i don't know where else to turn, really.