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With the Changling, for me I knew about the depression, and accepted the hypo's with just being a "normal" day for me, I knew something wasn't quite right with the mood swings that I would go through, the rages coming on out of no where, etc.. as I tried to learn about the depression and what could be done about it, I kept coming across bipolar, the deeper I looked into the bipolar, I found that there were different levels of it, BP1, BP2, BPNOS, and lesser versions that fall more into the depression side of bipolar, cylmitha( not sure on the spelling on that one)and on down from there on the Bipolar chart leading into just basic depression caused by things that have happened, like a death in the family. Bipolar 1 didn't fit me, as I never have had the high mania's they talk about associated with the illness. Depression didn't really fit what was going on, even though most of my time was spent in depression, the bipolar 2, fit like a tailor made glove. If the person in question is aware that there is something going on, and they want to figure it out, then I would have to say yes, but for most they don't recognise that something is happening, until they are forced to face it, through hospitalization or something. |
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