Are meltdowns just bi-polar disorder

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I haven't been diagnosed officially with anything, but I suspect my meltdowns are bipolar. I had lots of autistic traits as a kid. I have some still, love to rock in the chair, listen to music repetitively, poor social skills, but I can act! , I feel sad that I'm no longer a strict autistic. I'm a free spirit who is lost.

I used to hate attention but now I seek the truth in myself obsessively...

I like you, Magnus! I have happy outbursts and angry outbursts and sad outbursts nad anxious outbursts and mixed outbursts. Sadly, most of my outbursts have been unhappy ones, but some of them now are happy!

If you're not dependent on medication to prevent you from walking into the ocean and drowning, or breaking your arm with a car door, then you're not a bipolar.

A real bipolar is a tragedy. They're forever stuck on meds.

You'd need to ask a doctor to be 100% certain

They told me I'd be on my meds for the rest of my life and they also told my bf that he would be on his meds for the rest of his life, but me and my bf don't believe we will be. The thing is, I never attempted suicide or murder, I never self-harmed though Harry (my bf) did, the biggest things I did were things like vandalism and screaming in public and sexual indiscretion and writing 20 new songs when I was never a musical person in my 22 years of existence and thinking I was going to go cataqtonic if I slowed down so I had to keep moving (this was aggravated by the movie Crank).


Now they're diagnosing bipolar spinoffs as full-blown bipolar. This led to me being placed on 4mg of Risperdal, which doped me up so much that all I could say when I looked at my newborn son for the first time was "Oh."

Thanks Shareese. I am always embarrassed after I have a melt down. I had a bad day yesterday. Today will be a good day. Hope you enjoy it too.

You seem to be exaggerating...

Anyway, childhood meltdowns as I understand it can be caused by both and ADHD, and I dunno what else, probably adult ones too. I have at least bipolar, with traits of AS and ADHD as an adult (though not officially dxed with the latter two) so that pretty much explains why I had a meltdown everyday as a kid.

You need to try to release anger in healthy ways, even if you have to go all by yourself and have the meltdown, just don't pent it up forever or you will be in trouble.

I don't get angry during meltdowns, I get really sad. I generally don't get don't get angry. If I feel that someone has slighted me, I speak up and that makes whatever anger go away instantly and the situation gets resolved. There is no help for just being depressed other than waiting it out. Talking about things helps me. Writing helps more. Thank you for helping me here. Just listening to me helps tremendously.

Magnus, I get embarrassed after meltdowns too, but not because I had a meltdown or what I did during the meltdown. I get embarrassed about what the meltdown was about, especially if I had had a meltdown about something thinking I was right but then I turned out to be wrong and I didn't have to have that meltdown because what I thought was happening, whioch caused me to have a meltdown, wasn't what was happening; it was something else I didn't mind that was happening and I had just been confused... usually due to not paying attention.

Next time you have a meltdown Shareese, I hope you can find some humor in it. We are better off if we can laugh at life.

I am already starting to find the humor in them. Thank you, Magnus. I'm finding humor in my whole life now that I'm on the right drugs (legal, but not that it matters) and |I feel so much better than I have in YEARS. Possibly my whole life.