twisted moods in bipolar ii disorder?

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I've been diagnosed with bipolar II disorder, but I'm still having a hard time seeing it. However, one thing I've noticed that I experience is that when I'm thinking about something and have a certain feeling about it, I immediately start having the opposite feeling, and my thought process seems to get interrupted, and I end up with this really weird, twisted, contorted feeling. Since I've had treatment and have been put on Saphris and lithium, I've noticed that I can have a full feeling and actually follow something I'm thinking about through.

Does this make sense and is this part of bipolar II?

Mental health issues are not cut and dried, black and white. They run on a continuum with fuzzy boundaries. Bipolar Disorder Type II is very hard to diagnose because the symptoms are so subtle and integrate into normal behaviors. BPD people usually have some type of attention deficit disorder as well. Not sure if what you are describing can be attributed to BPD, but, since the boundaries are blurred on a continuum, I would think it could certainly be a component.. I am not a doctor, though. Are you working with a therapist at all? The best maintenance of the illness is through psychiatric oversight and continuous Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. If you are working with a therapist, I would talk with them about this. If you are not, then I might suggest you try it. All our perceptions, emotions included, are filtered through our subconscious mind. Perhaps your thought processes are being interrupted at this level. A CBT therapist would definitely be able to help you sort it out.

Cheers.

Yes, I have this problem since years(!), that it's not really clear if I have it or not.
But Bipolar is -how I noticed on others who have it- a general problem with the mood a bit. Rages and tamper tandrums occour more easily and so on.

I have a similar problem, but mine is more in relation to thought. If I have a certain feeling about something, my thought about it shifts and then my feelings about it shift to compensate for the changed thought. The disturbing thing about this is that my actual opinion about a thing can change from this thought/feeling disturbance. And then on another day, my opinion will change completely to something else. It's a constant source of inner conflict for me, making it difficult to trust any thought or feeling. My way of coping with this has been to not put much stock into anything I feel at any given moment. I wait for the feeling to pass and then examine the underlying thought and decide whether it's rational and logical-and safe, and then act accordingly.