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mumto6
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Cyclothymia - is "a chronic, fluctuating mood disturbance involving numerous periods of hypomanic symptoms and numerous periods of depressive symptoms." Simply translated, this means it is a long-term condition where the person's moods cycle between hypomania - a "high" that can be mild to fairly severe but does not include delusions, hallucinations or other psychotic features - and depression, also mild to fairly severe but not incapacitating or suicidal. ( Quoted from about.com)
Ok so this is what I was diagnosed with ?
I do have mood disturbances with numerous periods of high and lows
Highs do not include delusions , hallucinations - but I see , hear and smell things that no-one else around me can ? This happens daily. I also have strong urges to jump in front of moving traffic / to put my hand into a chip pan of frying oil etc
Depression is far from mild and suicidal thoughts are with me daily.
There hasn't been a Manic, Mixed or Depressive Episode in the first two years of symptoms; I suffer manic depressive and especially mixed episodes.
Everything I read about Cyclothymia just does not match me. How can I learn about an illness to try to be able to cope and understand it when it is mostly the opposite of how I am?
Does anyone else have this ?
Ok so this is what I was diagnosed with ?
I do have mood disturbances with numerous periods of high and lows
Highs do not include delusions , hallucinations - but I see , hear and smell things that no-one else around me can ? This happens daily. I also have strong urges to jump in front of moving traffic / to put my hand into a chip pan of frying oil etc
Depression is far from mild and suicidal thoughts are with me daily.
There hasn't been a Manic, Mixed or Depressive Episode in the first two years of symptoms; I suffer manic depressive and especially mixed episodes.
Everything I read about Cyclothymia just does not match me. How can I learn about an illness to try to be able to cope and understand it when it is mostly the opposite of how I am?
Does anyone else have this ?