Acting a Bit Bipolar Are You?

Bipolar disorder is not a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated mood where you're feeling like the you're in Superman (clinically referred to as mania) and depression where you're feeling like you're the most worthless person in the world. These episodes are normally separated by periods of normal mood, but in some patients, depression and mania may rapidly alternate, known as rapid cycling.

Bipolar behavior is usually characterized with emotional inconsistency not seen since PMS. In any case, two particular stages of bipolar disorder happen the longest, and they're called mania and depression. Hypomania (either a burst of pure excitement and elation or, more rarer, a blunted feeling of apathy), also occurs, but is usually short-lived. During this time, the bipolar person is in his best behavior.

From there, the person becomes manic (hence the term "mania"); that is, he becomes very hyperactive and excitable. A bipolar may keep himself constantly in motion during this time, burning up hours with a myriad of tasks and activities with a sense of misplaced urgency for hours on end with inexhaustible energy, like a child going through sugar rush.

After this string of energy-filled activity, the person burns out. Then the next stage kicks in. When a person shifts to the stage of depression, all the fatigue that he or she should have felt in the mania days kick in. The person then behaves in a way of a loner.

In the depressed state, the reclusive individual expresses loss of interest in sexual activity, shyness or social anxiety, irritability, anger, isolation and/or hopelessness, disturbances in sleep and appetite, fatigue and loss of interest in usually enjoyed activities; a gray rainbow of depressive emotions.

Once this down state ends, the person goes back to either the hypomanic state or the more dangerous manic state. This self-destructive cycle usually repeats itself until the person couldn't take it anymore, often leading to suicide. This type of disorder should be acknowledged and treated as soon as possible, because without treatment there's only one other way for a bipolar person to escape his see-saw of emotions.

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Why do we sometimes feel a bit Bipolar? Are we just acting a bit Bipolar?

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