I have BPD and I get the whole imposter "sad artist" troupe. I deleted my social where I would help others going through depression like me, stopped making any form of art like music just to be sure I wasn't lying to myself for attention or validation and yup, all the symptoms are still there a year later with or without an audience to talk to. Ironically I like staying off social media it lets me know what I am going through is real because there is no benefit socially from like what you said thinking I am subconsciously trying to be "unique" by dealing with depression. Thanks for the talk man helps me relate!
I really love how u open abt your mental health. It makes me want to go and see some therapist, i have a lot of unaliving thought these days cuz my life doesnt feels life anymore. Anyway, I like this daily vlogs, but please Reagan, take care of your mental health too.
I applaud your courage and honestly. We need to lift the stigma around mental illness and make it more normalized in conversations. Im curious if you have tried ketamine therapy for bi-polar? I have had great success with it for my Complex PTSD/Anxiety/Depression. Wishing you all the best. Day by day by day! ❤
Hi Reagan, you mentioned that you don't know the difference between Bipolar 1 and 2. The main and most important difference is that when you have Bipolar type 2, you experience hypomania, not full-blown mania like you do when you have bipolar 1. Besides that, there are only subtle differences😊😊 That's why you experience hypomania having Bipolar 2. And the word "hypo" in front of mania means "less than". So, the difference between Bipolar type 1 and 2 is about the severity of (hypo)manic episodes. You cannot get diagnosed with Bipolar 1 if you never have experienced episodes with true mania of at least seven days.in a row. People with Bipolar 1 can experience both mania and hypomania. I hope this helps clear things up A woman diagnosed with Bipolar affective disorder type 1
Hypomania and mania are different stuff. Mania is considered more severe because the person can have a psychotic break, meaning they go to a fantasy world, hear voices, see stuff that aren't there and so on. Hypomania is never like that, you can feel more energy, but it is usually more being irritated out of nowhere. I wouldn't say one type is more severe than the other, because bipolar 2 features a lot more deep depression and only when you go through deep depression you understand how debelitating it can be, when I am depressive I think about offing myself from the moments I wake up until sleep and maybe even when dreaming. Bipolar 2 can become bipolar 1 if you won't treat it. People with bipolar 1 have all kinds of crazy stories about when they are manic, I know a girl who flew out of the country and did all kind of crazy stuff without even letting her family and closed ones know she was out of the country, people thought she was dead or kidnapped, bipolar 1 is more like that sort of "energy". They can also be very paranoid. It is all similar to a person with a schizophrenia.
as someone who is also diagnosed bipolar 2 its nice to hear that someone else goes through similar struggles. Keep pushing fr. Also r u on any medication?
I'm going through the same thing. I'm in a depressed state right now. Do you ever have brain fog in your depressed states like I do? Caffeine doesn't even help.
This condition never makes sense to me, It feels like someone wanted to make up a new illness and impose it on us for the sake of discovery. Does it really exist? Don't tell me about sadness or anger ., there are millions of reasons to be sad and angry. Yes, some people are more sensitive than others, that is for sure. Listening to you, you sound like a very rational person to me. You don't have any issue, just my opinion.
totally get where you’re coming from, as someone who does generally function super rationally. although a bit of a misguided and (not in a mean way) just kind of an ignorant opinion. i can see how you wouldn’t understand how it feels if you’ve never experienced true depression or the highs of hypomania. yes there are reasons to be sad - with depression there is no reason. things could be amazing outwardly and inwardly, when all of the sudden a switch can flip in my brain that makes everything feel bad. nothing interesting & im angry at myself and angry at others for no reason. for a long time i told myself that i needed to just suck it up and be better. there’s only so far you can get with self work. my entire life ive felt like two different people at uncontrollable intervals of time. no amount of telling myself to be normal and suck it up and work through it has ever allowed me to push through. & i still try. but one random day - a switch flips and i’m either the second coming of christ or the scum of the earth. frankly it’s embarrassing at points. nobody knows who to expect when they see me. i don’t really care for a label on what i have, but it’s nice to have context to understand that randomly wanting to off myself after having an amazing week is not normal & i can point to reasons why it’s not normal.
I have BPD and I get the whole imposter "sad artist" troupe. I deleted my social where I would help others going through depression like me, stopped making any form of art like music just to be sure I wasn't lying to myself for attention or validation and yup, all the symptoms are still there a year later with or without an audience to talk to. Ironically I like staying off social media it lets me know what I am going through is real because there is no benefit socially from like what you said thinking I am subconsciously trying to be "unique" by dealing with depression. Thanks for the talk man helps me relate!
I really love how u open abt your mental health. It makes me want to go and see some therapist, i have a lot of unaliving thought these days cuz my life doesnt feels life anymore. Anyway, I like this daily vlogs, but please Reagan, take care of your mental health too.
you should definitely give therapy a shot if you have the means. it’s been good for me. stay with us friend
I applaud your courage and honestly. We need to lift the stigma around mental illness and make it more normalized in conversations. Im curious if you have tried ketamine therapy for bi-polar? I have had great success with it for my Complex PTSD/Anxiety/Depression. Wishing you all the best. Day by day by day! ❤
Hi Reagan, you mentioned that you don't know the difference between Bipolar 1 and 2.
The main and most important difference is that when you have Bipolar type 2, you experience hypomania, not full-blown mania like you do when you have bipolar 1. Besides that, there are only subtle differences😊😊 That's why you experience hypomania having Bipolar 2. And the word "hypo" in front of mania means "less than". So, the difference between Bipolar type 1 and 2 is about the severity of (hypo)manic episodes. You cannot get diagnosed with Bipolar 1 if you never have experienced episodes with true mania of at least seven days.in a row. People with Bipolar 1 can experience both mania and hypomania.
I hope this helps clear things up
A woman diagnosed with Bipolar affective disorder type 1
ohh interesting! thank you for clarifying 🤍🤍
I found my boys😂. Hello im from Philippines🇵🇭i have this too. But i like experiencing in bipolar is hypomania
Actually bro all you experience and what you said in this video all of it is experiencing right now 💯. It’s started when iwas 14 years old now im 17😂
We are the same experience in life bro 100% it like im you
Hypomania and mania are different stuff. Mania is considered more severe because the person can have a psychotic break, meaning they go to a fantasy world, hear voices, see stuff that aren't there and so on. Hypomania is never like that, you can feel more energy, but it is usually more being irritated out of nowhere. I wouldn't say one type is more severe than the other, because bipolar 2 features a lot more deep depression and only when you go through deep depression you understand how debelitating it can be, when I am depressive I think about offing myself from the moments I wake up until sleep and maybe even when dreaming. Bipolar 2 can become bipolar 1 if you won't treat it. People with bipolar 1 have all kinds of crazy stories about when they are manic, I know a girl who flew out of the country and did all kind of crazy stuff without even letting her family and closed ones know she was out of the country, people thought she was dead or kidnapped, bipolar 1 is more like that sort of "energy". They can also be very paranoid. It is all similar to a person with a schizophrenia.
I am also bipolar
as someone who is also diagnosed bipolar 2 its nice to hear that someone else goes through similar struggles. Keep pushing fr. Also r u on any medication?
thank you:) i was on lamotrigine but it didn’t help i was still cycling and had a lot of side effects. starting new meds soon
I'm going through the same thing. I'm in a depressed state right now. Do you ever have brain fog in your depressed states like I do? Caffeine doesn't even help.
yes it’s the worst. can’t think straight about anything sometimes just straight up empty brain. caffeine sometimes makes it worse in my case
13:35 Not worth the TH-cam demonetisation hahah
This condition never makes sense to me, It feels like someone wanted to make up a new illness and impose it on us for the sake of discovery. Does it really exist? Don't tell me about sadness or anger ., there are millions of reasons to be sad and angry. Yes, some people are more sensitive than others, that is for sure. Listening to you, you sound like a very rational person to me. You don't have any issue, just my opinion.
totally get where you’re coming from, as someone who does generally function super rationally. although a bit of a misguided and (not in a mean way) just kind of an ignorant opinion. i can see how you wouldn’t understand how it feels if you’ve never experienced true depression or the highs of hypomania. yes there are reasons to be sad - with depression there is no reason. things could be amazing outwardly and inwardly, when all of the sudden a switch can flip in my brain that makes everything feel bad. nothing interesting & im angry at myself and angry at others for no reason.
for a long time i told myself that i needed to just suck it up and be better. there’s only so far you can get with self work. my entire life ive felt like two different people at uncontrollable intervals of time. no amount of telling myself to be normal and suck it up and work through it has ever allowed me to push through. & i still try. but one random day - a switch flips and i’m either the second coming of christ or the scum of the earth. frankly it’s embarrassing at points. nobody knows who to expect when they see me.
i don’t really care for a label on what i have, but it’s nice to have context to understand that randomly wanting to off myself after having an amazing week is not normal & i can point to reasons why it’s not normal.