What does being bipolar feel like?

As a bipolar myself, it feels really frustrating. One second I am the happiest person alive, the next I am thinking of dying off somewhere. My sleeping and eating schedules arent the greatest either... Lets just say it isnt a pleasant journey sometimes c:

It's a bit like a soap opera. The good things are really good. So good that you get high on them. The bad things are really bad. They can send you to bed for days or make you want to take your own life. My average day involves both poles. When the meds are working for me I am usually experience less extreme mood changes but tend to average out on the depression side of things. Having support from family and friends, a good therapist, a good psychiatrist and being on the right meds makes all the difference in the world

it can feel like you're at the top of the hill, everything feels lighter happier better and you feel there's nothing you can't do. The downside is literally feeling you can barely do anything, it feels like a cage a prison and you don't know how much longer you will feel so numb, lost.. Bipolar owns you controls you so much it can either weigh you completely down, wear you out or energize you so you almost feel high. You're either ecstatic over the moon happy or utterly miserable. Some days everything is done swiftly full of energy and then there are days you struggle to even get out of the door. Bipolar is a curse and a blessing.

I don't know if i have bipolar or not but we will find out. Imagine that being bipolar feels like you are up and down up and down high and low low low and high high high and low and high and low and high.

Think of your worse moment and then think of your happiest moment.. imagine instantly feeling one way and then the other for no real reason.

It feels like you cannot control your moods and sometime you'll feel like outburst of feelings and sometimes you will be unable to feel anything at all.

When you first learn that you are bipolar you feel betrayed by your own brain. You wonder if all the decisions and feelings and relationships have been based on faulty wiring. You feel as if you have no control over your own brain. If you get so manic that you go to delusions it is scary and you hope you never go there again. However, if you are one of the lucky ones whose bipolar is controlled by a simple lithium pill, in time you learn to accept that you will be alright. You will remain in control as long as you stay on your medication. A medication that is literally life-saving. Finally, after years of living with the disease you do realize it is just like any other chronic disease. If you are lucky like me, once lithium starts working your life is pretty much "normal".

Bipolar is a rollercoaster of intense emotions. Extreme highs that are usually brief followed by unbelievable depression that lasts for months. Sometimes years. It hurts just to exist when you're that depressed, but with meds, therapy, and coping skills it's possible to lead a normal life.

It feels really amazing and really terrible sometimes. It truly does feel like the highest highs and lowest lows. The depressive episodes feel like nothingness, and the manic episodes feel like the lack of inhibition when you are drunk.

Like your on a roller coaster you can't get off and the weather keeps changing at the same time so you don't know what to do