bipolar and AS

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anyone here that has both bipolar disorder and AS? i've been diagnosed bipolar and suspect AS. looking for someone to discuss the complicated combination of problems this causes.

I know people with bipolar, and of course Aspies, but not both simultaneously I'm afraid.

I wonder if that's what I'm dealing with, because I'm up in the summer and down in the winter, every Bloody year.

I've been diagnosed AS and suspect bipolar as well. When I received the diagnosis the doctor reccommended I look into an organic cause for my depression, which had been sending me into psychosis, and suggested that it may be because of a schizoaffective disorder, but didn't think I was bipolar because they were having trouble finding where my "manias" were. Well, now that I've done some research and some introspection, I know that AS and schizoid conditions aren't supposed to coexist, and I've recognized an aspect of my personality that might correspond to the other aspect of bipolar disorder. For instance, when I wake up I tend to be very depressed, but when I'm trying to fall asleep I get racing thoughts and seem full of energy. Talking with my mom about it now, who's pretty severely bipolar, I'm starting to think that my dad, who raised me, was probably just unobservant when it came to this. It explains alot about how I react to different kinds of drugs.

it sounds like you're dealing with climate change

Cockney, I think that sounds like Seasonal Affective Disorder.

i can't believe you just made up the name of a disorder

She didn't make up the name. I have Seasonal Affective Disorder, myself. Wikepedia explains: "Also known as S.A.D, sufferers experience normal mental health throughout most of the year, but experience depressive symptoms in the winter or summer."

I find that I am affected both winter and spring. Light therapy helps.

Yeah, SAD is real. Those lightbox things are supposed to be good for that. Never tried them myself, I use the much less powerful (and expensive) full-spectrum lightbulbs and find them helpful.

I am soo glad that it's not just me. I've been getting weird looks and disbelief when i suggest the possibility that all of my problems are not caused by one condition alone. I wasn't even sure if it was possible to have two so distictly different disorders at once. I do get manias sometimes, though not as much as i go way down into deep and life threatening depressions. When i do get manic, i have racing thoughts and restlessness like u described, and unfortunately mine too is often at night. I was up until after 4:30 am last night unable to sleep. I was scared out of my mind too bc i had never been this manic. I felt like i was floating, and had strange urges to bust things and believed that i could overdose and not die. While i had the impulses, i was unable to move. Then i came crashing down quite suddenly and went into a deep depression and almost did die. All in one night. My mood swings have been more stable since being on a mood stablizer and an antidepressant. But things complicate the diagnosis of bipolar, in my mind at least. Sometimes my mood swings are caused by overstimmulation such as from sensory issues, or from too much stress by having to deal with social situations. The two feed off each other. When i am having mood swings i am like to be more sensitive. When i am more sensitive i am likely to get mood swings. My therapist and my parents have been trying to sqeeze my problems into one neat diagnosis but they just won't seem to fit.

And there's also Seasonal Affective Bipolar Disorder, where the person is depressed in the fall and/or winter and (hypo)manic in the spring and/or summer.
-OddDuckNash99-

this is my favorite lightbox result:

link here

Isn't biploar more rapid cycling than that? plus isn't the winter just depressing anyway? I'm always depressed in the winter and no lightbox is going to fix that. Unless it'll allow me to wear shorts and tshirts and feel warm in the bright sunlight while i'm at the beach sipping on tequilas with that girl from the lightbox advertisment

i'm thinking about moving to los angeles

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please elaborate

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Ah! Ha! Ha! Don’t take it serious. It was intended to be in humor! I have a terrible weird DRY SENSE of HUMOR (Upside Down)

To set the record straight for anyone I may have accidentally offended, I don’t think Aspies including myself are weak, And I surely don’t think Wrong Planet is really being monitored by Government Authorities, although I asked that in a question. Please forgive me if you think I was indicating anything other than good humor. I’m just trying to be funny to see if Alex himself will respond!! !!

My Strategy was
(To use the secret agent approach) or (The Shhh!! ! Conspiracy theory) or (I even thought of making something up about space aliens and Alex) “Laugh out Loud” LOL just trying to be in a good mood.

Well according to the responses, I guess I really am from a “Wrong Planet” H’mmm! If my Aspie sense of humor is not even funny to my fellow Aspie’s. Then I’m surly lost in the abyss of no Humor! I never was good at making jokes let alone friends. I was hoping other Aspies would be on the same (Page) Mental plateau, and find this funny. UH OH, I finally lost my marbles (Seen them?) I’m just lonesome looking for attention!

Later.
Malcolm.

See posted below, I tried to make it appear solemn. Must have worked hu, don’t take it serious….(Smiles)

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Curious?

Respectfully, this is not a put down to Wrong Planet in any way. So please don’t read anything into this, other than a simple Question!

I have been seeing a lot of changes in our Government, some changes not so good. I can’t but help think and notice, ALEX who is the administrator and originates from DC. I only want to know that this sight Wrong Planet is not being watched and logged by any form of Government Agency or International Government Agency in any way, for purposes of prospective Euphemism of the weak and sick such as Aspergers people (Aspies)? Please respond to this and ease the minds!

Sorry to have to ask this, but I am Perseverating on this, and must know in order to not worry and continue using Wrong Planet.

ALEX?

Thank you!
Malcolm.

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