I Think I'm Bipolar

It's hard to explain. Obviously I'm not going to diagnose myself, I shall maybe see someone if it gets worse. However, I can have certain episodes where I completely shut off, I zone out of nearly all conversations I am in and I just end up feeling genuinely down. This can happen for a few days up to weeks.

Then I'm suddenly happy and motivated for a couple of day to a week. I'll do my work, tidy around the house. Maybe go outside with friends and actually speak more to people.

Then I have random episodes where I'm sad and snap at people or I can be happy and then easily irritated.

However I'm fully aware it can easily be confused with depression, that's what I thought it was. But it just doesn't seem right to me

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Mercury500

You make too much sense to be bipolar and i haven't read anything that is just like - What the hell on you on about ?!? Those who are bipolar do not usually have the self-awareness you do and aren't usually the first ones to recognise it in themselves. They also have periods where they have the most inflated ego and have the most phenomenal plans. So little is really known about mental illness though, as compared to the physical ones.