weird emotional opposites

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for some reason the happier i am one day the further my sadness goes down the next

im not sure if its depresion or just chemical imbalances.

may i have your opinion?

unless you give us more information its hard to make a fair assessment.

lately i have been more apathetic than depressed or sad
then my friend invites me to birthday party
it was excellent and fun.
then it finished and i went home
my sadness suddenly went from
to over night.
i woke up could not even move for three hours
this type of thing happends every two week

and the counselours i go to all say different things (except they agree asperger's)
they said antisocial all the way to schizotypal im very

It could be anything. None of us are registered psychiatrists but it sounds almost like a Biopolar Disorder which can be a huge chemical imbalance from happy to sad. That's usually the big indicator for it. It also could be a Border Line Personality Disorder which isn't as severe as the Biopolar Disorder.

Again, no one can diagnose you it also probably goes along with your aspergers. You should get a diagnosis and see what they can do. Sometimes these things can get worse as years progress.

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It's not that bad for me, but I also feel like I get sadder after having fun. My usual amotional state is calm and neutral, neither happy nor sad. But it may then be replaced by a very slight depression (nothing serious, really). I return to normal first after that the "depression" have succeeded in making me forgot the happy feelings.

I don’t really know what the reason is. I always assumed that it having fun simply makes me aware of how depressing my usual life is. If there are any other possible reasons I would like to know.

That happens to me a lot. I sort of view it as an equation, for every quantity x I get of happiness, I get at least 2x of feeling crappy.

However, I've had a quite good last few weeks, oh no... Here comes the flood...eventually.

The powers that be think that I might be bipolar, but there is no diagnosis, and no medication.

Of all the sick combinations of "disorders" I think bipolar and asperger's/autism has to be fairly far up there. Severe mood swings combined with difficulty in recognizing emotion? AHHH!

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the reason i said chemical imbalances is
i seen the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know"

I feel the exact same way. I feel pretty good when I am around people, or away from home, but I instantly get sad when I know I have to come home, to my boring/empty/lonely/depressing life.

Hey dc, I think the magic word you are looking for is 'manic depressive'
I don't know how or if this is different from 'bi-polar' as I am only self-diagnosed
and have never mentioned either to a therapist on my two ten year apart single visits.



I definitely get most depressed returning alone from a successful social outing that
stands alone and leads to no continuing relationship!

I'm starting to think that the advice "you don't need to see a psychiatrist
because having Asperger's doesn't mean you are crazy"
is only correct up to the point where the consequences of having Aspergers
start to negatively impact your ability to survive, strive and succeed,
emotionally.

Comments, criticisms and opinions, everyone?

they are the same thing....

and i am very depressed right now at least i can hoap this very very deep depression will have a opposite... did i say DEEP

I sometimes get like this. Sometimes I can get really hyperactive and happy for no reason. I can be literally jumping around the room just laughing at myself or at the carpet on the floor (seriously). My mother once thought that I was taking illegal drugs when I was like this. The next day I can be completely different, depressed, impending doom and thinking that theres no point in moving and that I should just lay there and wait to die.
The majority of every month of mine is spent in depression and 1-2 days are spent being hyperactive and "up". On occassion I actually feel sane!

Sorry, I don't have any advice for you. I still don't even know what my own issue is.

If it were bipolar disorder it would be ultradian cycling or ultra rapid cycling bipolar disorder.

Rapid cycling bipolar disorder is defined by having 4 or more episodes in one year....so for instance two manias and two depressions....it can also mean cycles every few weeks....ultra-ultra (or ultradian) rapid cycling would mean distinct episodes within one or two days.....

I have bipolar disorder, but mainly the good old fashioned kind.....one to three episodes a year. However I am prone to mixed episodes (dysphoric mania) when you have features of both mania and depression at the same time....it would seem like I'm rapid cycling, but I'm just extremely irritable, very quick to anger, and just plain hostile at times. It would seem like I was severely depressed.....but really my thoughts are racing, I might be delusional, hallucinating, and I can't sleep for days at a time. That's very different from my depressive episodes...I feel just empty, flat and tired all the time. I have no desire to keep on living, but I'm too lazy to do anything about it.........

Mood swings can occur due to other disorders like ADD, even ADS's can cause instability in moods...sometimes I can feel manic, or depressed and I'm not sure if it's a real episode or just a normal mood swing from stress, or PMS, or a cup of coffee I shouldn't have had.....come to think of it...can I even have "normal" mood swing?

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thanks at least i am not alone...

Manic-Depressive and Bi-Polar are the same thing. Bi-Polar is just the newer term used nowadays, as I suppose it sounds less psychotic. I have mood swings as well, but I wouldn't say that it goes from one extreme to another...it's more like going from calm and not very emotional, to depressed, depending on my surroundings.

Thanks Jason. I didn't know that.
I guess I should take my own advice and go and see a psychiatrist
but I'm too depressed
My 'black dog' is pitch black at the moment.

you have a dog that changes colour?