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I wish you had better days.

I was diagnosed bipolar and I do not go up or down.
Before I was medicated I had mixed moods -- both depressed and anxious/up at the same time.
It was difficult and doctors really stink at fixing it.

Now that I am medicated I am less depressed and less anxious -- enough that I can act normal 65% of the time. The rest of the time, I need lots of quiet and down time.


Claiming not to remember and then remembering does not seem like a bipolar thing to me.
And I cannot remember exactly what being able to turn it off means. That means he has awareness and some degree of control of his behavior. And cannot remember what else.

Do his family members have mental illness?
Does he self-medicate with drinking?

Anyway, I am sorry for all that you have gone through with your own diagnosis.



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