Any Bipolar Aspies?

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I was diagnosed with Bipolar II about two week before going to a psychiatric ward
I heard of a connection between Bipolar and Asperger's
Both family trees having both and an individual having both Bipolar and AS.
So anyone have both?
Have family with Bipolar?
Depression only?
Neither?

I only have depression but might have Bipolar tendancies because my bf told me I get angry off and on and then I'm happy and then I'm mad and I'm hard to reason with when I don't take my pills.

I'm bipolar and on meds.
I have lots of family members with bipolar disorder- we lost 1 cousin and and 2 uncles to suicide.

I have both AS and Bipolar II. I have a brother who is bipolar also. My dad is probably AS. Depression runs in my family and I lost a grandmother to suicide (before I was born).

I have not been diagnosed with Bipolar but I wonder if I could be. Sometimes I’m up on a high and two seconds later I’m down in the dumps again. I could just be depressed but I don’t know what the difference is between Bipolar and depression.

Here's a link to some general info on Bipolar Disorder
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bipolar.cfm

try the psychcentral test
or the black dog institute test
I find them helpful.
google either of those and maybe they will help.

Yup I'm Bipolar type 1

Asperger's has connections to pretty much every mental disorder there is, including Tourette's, OCD, Depression, ADD/ADHD and schizophrenia. (And other stuff I'm sure that I'm not remembering right now).

Meditation - second reference today. All this talk of the "mind" and its problems. Meditation helps strengthen the "muscle" where these problems originate.

http://www.mcmanweb.com/article-37.htm < -- one article.

If you are interested in an alternative method, outside of medications, that helps you, you may want to invest some time into this.

I will inform you that, during a time in meditation, I was severely depressed, even more so then before. HOWEVER, after sometime, I learned about a current problem and came out stronger and more "balanced" then ever. Its this "balance" that I think will MOST help aspies/other mental conditions

I haven't tried meditation but I have heard really great things about it.
I can't seem to get past the clear my mind stage ....let alone my major lack of concentration

I'm bipolar. Not on meds, but I should've been.

Most of my family have some sort of emotional problems, though I can't think of anyone who has an official diagnosis. I only know my father has epilepsy. He has problems with alcoholism as well and had an acute paranoid reaction to drink once which landed him in psychiatric hospital, so that my mother had to come and take him from there. My uncle (mother's brother) is an alcoholic. My grandmother (mother's mother) has a distinct histrionic personality and probably major hysteria. She's often manipulative and untrustworthy, imagines things that aren't there and comes to believe them herself, and I can recall her throwing hysterical fits where she'd roll about on the floor screaming.

My mother is extremely sensitive, has a somewhat histrionic personality and is prone to depression. When I was younger she used to shout a lot; it could get really disruptive, she'd start blaming me for things or twisting facts around to suit her perception. It's all in the past now, we've stopped fighting and she says she was very wrong to have behaved like that, and now that she doesn't it makes her feel better, too.

Bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder could be somewhere in here, too, but I wouldn't know (nor does it really make any difference).

My grandfather (mother's father) was a very kind, sensitive man, but he was exceedingly shy and apparently studied hard and willingly, avoided participating in noisy group events, and preferred to keep to himself. He had an overwhelming interest in yoga and oriental teachings that bordered on an obsession. He had many books on yoga; back then in the Soviet Union they were forbidden, so he had to find them through underground means (some of those that were circulating in Lithuania at the time were printed out by hand on a typewriter and then photocopied). He did yoga postures, including standing on his head, for a few hours every day during most of his later life, been when he was in his eighties. He was also obsessed with healthy diets, like eating only raw food or never combining carbohydrates with proteins. Every time we started to talk about food, like when I asked him if he could give me something to eat, he'd tell me how harmful it is to have bread with meat, or to eat foods like ravioli, and would explain why. It was impossible to convince him that it wasn't necessarily true and that there were many theories regarding this. Some people who knew him say he was "odd", though not in a bad way. (I sometimes wonder if he was an aspie or could've had a schizoid/schizotypal personality - not that it matters a lot )

My grandmother (father's mother) is also considered eccentric, has a very distinct and extravagant way of dressing, and is fascinated with philosophy, spirituality, esoteric teachings and other abstract issues. (Also schizoid/schizotypal, maybe?)

Also, my great-grandma (on my mother's side) is said to have had some mental illness during the whole second part of her life; I was told she "went insane", couldn't recognize anyone and was quiet, but out of it. (Schizophrenia perhaps?)

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I discovered meditation by accident. I would go for long bicycle rides, and as a result, I'd start breathing deeply and rythmically, and focus only on the immediate section of road in front of me. All of a sudden, my mind opened up, it was great. I think a lot of people do that without knowing it, I've heard that a lot of Aspies like going for walks and things like that. It's the same principle--deep breathing in a rythmic manner, and block out all the distractions in the world.

You don't have to sit in the lotus position with incense burning chanting "Ommmm" in order to meditate.

I am Bipolar along with HFA,anxiety/stress,and PTSD.


-SpaceCase

I have a feeling that I might be. When I'm up, I'm up. When I'm low, I'm low. I also have delusions when I'm up and I feel suicidal, when I'm low.

That really does sound bipolar....I hope you have or will soon talk to a doctor about those types of mood swings.