Bipolar Support Group

I don't know which is the real me lets say i have a bad day with my moods for a week and then the next week I am happy and just think life is great in general and I am a good person instead of a bad person I still wonder is this real happiness or is it hypomania because I cycle between hypomania and depression. Who is the real me and what is my real personality like. I feel like I don't know i really am because I can't tell if I am genuinely happy at all

I understand how you feel. I'm so use to being miserable... that I feel normal life is miserable therefore that's a normal 'ME'. But, it all boils down to the fact that NO ONE should feel miserable this much... that's how I know this isn't who I am suppose to be even though being 'happy' is abnormal for me.

I think that this is completely rational. After I found out I was bipolar, I felt like this. Sometimes I still do.

How can you really know who you are until you stop cycling? Even then, the person you are is constantly changing throughout your life.

I guess that the bigger question should be, who do I want to be?

If I were you, I would choose to believe the happy you is the real you.

You know I think before we had the term "bipolar" people like us were just labeled "eccentric" "unique" and yes , a little "mad" but i think that is the real us we are both happy and sad. WE are just more magnified (feelings) than "normal" people. For me, I've stopped asking what is the real me, and just accepted that it's everything you see and don't see.