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Are there Any Rapid Cyclers in the house?

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the longest i have ever had one mood is close to three weeks. manic, depressive, hypomanic, mixed... any extreeme any time. some times 2 or 3 BIG shifts in a day. Because not all synptoms have to change at a time (ie. being irritable in manic is almost identical to frustration in depression) I hardley no when I'm coming or going. I never had more than a few minutes of "neutral" mood off meds, and hardly made it a day on. Does anyone here get what i'm saying? How do you cope?
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Yes, let's all join the Tour De France together....hahaha...how rapidly can you cycle StefanJ12?
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Stefan went to the store - hungry and our of food. Needed to carbo-load before the big race.
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I be a RCer
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I am ok one minute then screaming the next, or crying one minute and laughing hysterically the next. No one knows how to take me. Sometimes I find myself talking to someone and they have no clue what I've just said or asked. Sometimes I don't say a word to anyone past hello, then other times I can't shut up.
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Yep Tara471, that definitely sounds like rapid cycling to me. I know that feeling. Hang in there.
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yewp i am definitely a rapid cycler
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raises hand
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how did this thread make it back from the great abyss?
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Hey tara, are talking about that lost time memory thingy? I have that to. Lost 5 or so hours once. Couldn't remeber where I had parked. ; )
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here is the adress for a kinda cool article about RCing from the american journal of psychiatry: http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/161/10/1902
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In a weird sort of way (please don't take this the wrong way, I am not minimalizing rapid cycling bp), but I kind of feel as though we are better off with rapid cycling, because we don't have months and months at a time with depression. I mean I really don't think I could handle being really depressed for 10 or 12 months straight. In that sense, I feel like it is better to be rapid cycling.
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supposedly RCers have earlier onset and more drug resistance. I started Constant cycling at 13. still working on meds.

how about yall?
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I used to be diagnosed as a rapid cycler but that was a long time ago with my first pdoc...now I'm just bipolar I or II I can't remember.
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I used to be before they started to treat my insomnia now I am mellow and stable.

I get sick when I try to stay up past 3am,

and it is not medical sick, my body and brain is yelling at me.
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Bump and then crash.
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