What does being bipolar feel like?

There are several forms of bi-polar disorder. The most severe of these are the types that make a person sometimes feel they can do superhuman things and often act out in extreme ways. This is a 'high' they don't want to come down from, but in time, what follows is a severe low where they can't even leave their bed. The length of time and extremity of severe highs and lows vary with everyone, but most have difficulty managing medicines because balancing emotions isn't as fun as the 'highs'. What is important is to realize that the 'highs' are often dangerous and cause bad choices to be made that cause 'lows' to become more unbearable. It's important to control the emotions and do whatever helps to equalize thoughts, feelings and actions.

Bipolar is characterised be mania, and depressive and sometimes mixed episodes! Mania feels as if you are on top of the world, other things that happen is not needing as much sleep and risky behaviours! Sometimes if someone is manic for too long they can deal with psychosis. And depressive episodes are what depression is basically, so things like loss of appetite, sadness and loss of interest. Mixed episodes and either be both at once or rapidly changing between the two

To me, being bipolar feels like your emotions are constantly on a rollercoaster that either goes really up in the sky, or falls really fast to the ground. You have no control over it and you either feel like you can own the world and accomplish anything, or like nothing ever goes the right way or makes any sense. And when you're aware that you have that problem, you can identify it. However, your mind tells you to snap out of it, but your heart does whatever it wants.

Being bipolar is fairly frustrating. For example, you could be in a argument and be very angry, and then find yourself not feeling the need to argue anymore because you're no longer mad.

bipolar is like not knowing how your mood is going to be from one day or one minute sometimes to the next sometimes yo can be positive and make goals somedays acheive them have energy and motivation. other days feeling you have no energy dont want to get dressed get out of bed wash go out do anything. sometimes you cry and feel in a rut unable to cope everything feels on top of you.

Being bipolar often feels like you are a walking paradox. It's hard to find a happy medium, and things are always black or white..there is no in between.

Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder that is defined by extreme emotional highs and lows. This could include periods of deep depression, low activity, thoughts of death, a change in eating. As well as periods of extreme joys and feeling manic, during these times you may need less sleep, become very talkative, feel invincible or euphoric.

Your mood becomes periodically mercurial, ranging from a state of extreme excitement and energy (among other things) to a state of lethargic depression (among other things).

It can feels like we are having difficulty in regulating mood. We experienced mania, which includes racing thoughts, irritability, increased energy, decrease need for sleep; and depression, which include lost of interests, appetite, energy, concentration and even suicidal thoughts.

It feels scary at times, I feel alone and sad, but after say a week or two of that, I'm really magic, hyper sexual, risk taking and hyper. It can be hard to handle but, as long as I listen to the right people I'll be able to get though it