What does being bipolar feel like?

Basically, sometimes you're overwhelmingly sad. You have no energy, you sleep all day. Everyone says you're being lazy, and even when you try your hardest to do things you just can't. Then other times you're invincible. Everyone thinks you're charming and funny, and doing seems natural. Suddenly you're convinced you can do anything, and you have the kind of energy that makes others believe it to. Then it's back to being depressed again and all you want is to die, and you hate yourself and everyone else don't understand why you suddenly "stopped trying" and why you have a bad attitude. Typically the depressed periods last for months and the manic one only a couple of weeks. That's my experience at least. I'm sure others have different.

My bipolar was a roughly 6 week cycle of going from the deepest most hopeless depression through a normal middle time and on into a manic period over and over until I went into remission about 22 years ago. At 67 years old, I am thankfully stable with no manic or (depressed) hopeless episodes but the fear of same is still there occasionally, especially when I get really tired mentally. I am totally blessed but I never take it for granted that I am totally cured.

That depends on the type of bipolar disorder. it can be torment between feeling energetic and lethargic, between times of high risk and times of just hiding in bed. Or it can be a mess of feelings jumbling in to each other and making it hard to pinpoint if what's happening is because of outer sources or because a switch's been flipped over in your brain. It can be very clear and easy to diagnose. Or it can be tough, because it's a mess and hard to see. Either way, it's stressful, sometimes dangerous, and no matter what phase is currently going, it's tiring to stay in control.

Been bipolar makes you feel like crazy ,you feel like you can do anything until later you feel like the world is the worst.Sometimes I feel like dying because I feel like I am not worth it in life ,what’s the point leaving here.But later minutes past and I am like soo happy I don’t have any idea how this happen its crazy .Sometimes I feel like I am crazy because I can not control myself and the worst people see me and maybe they think I am crazy.why is soo hard to control my feelings?? I don’t know and I will never know . Sometimes I cry soo much I can not stop and then my mood changes and then I feel soo happy ..yeah and I don’t like anything sometime nothing makes me happy is the worst part .

Bi-polar is an mental illness that for some is very confusing. you are unsure of your feelings, your thoughts. one minute you could feel all okay and the next you want to just flip. it is something, that you yourself cannot control.

It feels like a hurricane sometimes. I feel like my emotions are in all different directions and i cant controll it. other times its like im completely numb to everything

It feels like being locked in your own head. Like your mind is a cage and you can't get out. It's like feeling hopeless and empty. And at other times, useless. Like nothing will get better.

I would describe it as heavy emotional weight bearing down on you as you try to gain footing. Mania is always on go mode, there is no stopping, and I feel like I could take on anything at 'any cost'. The costs that follow are usually from outbursts, hard distrust, sometimes even cutting people off because they feel like a burden. When the depression seeps in, then a lot of my mistakes I made during manic episodes come back like demons siphoning my life. It's probably a little more descriptive than I need to be, but it's more than just "being sad" it's more like being so weighed down by the smallest details, that you feel you need to drag your life to get going. To summarize: I feel like manic episodes are setting a garden on fire, and depressive episodes are slowly the burden of regrowth at such a slow rate the effort feels useless.

Being bipolar without medication feels like being on a runaway train that never makes stops. With medication you still have a few ups and downs but it's not anything like trying to function in society on your own.

It's inconsistent haha. Seriously though some days I feel down in the dumps and some days I feel on top of the world. One common symptom for me is grandiosity.. I'll get these surges of great ideas and suddenly I'll have the belief that I can change the world with this idea. The grandiosity usually goes hand in hand with impulsivity, which then causes me to act on my grandiose idea, causing me to male bad decisions. Physically I feel my head get warm when I'm manic, and a different kind of sinking warmth when I'm depressed..