Rapid Rapid-Cycling
Just how rapid does rapid cycling get? The official criteria to qualify as a rapid cyclists are:
- You must experience 4 or more distinct mood episodes in a year*
- Your mania must last at least one week; depression two weeks*
Well shit, if that's the case then I usually qualify in the first quarter of the year.
As for Sunday - I was like a bloody YoYo. YeeHaaa in the morning, Pretty Shitty by lunch. etc. etc.
In retrospect though, I gotta admit that the YeeHaa was only very temporary. I've been hanging to screech out a YeeHaaa on audio-blogger for some time now, so excuse me if I seized the opportunity a little prematurely.
Today? Probably...
I always wondered who those "rapid cyclers" were who had episodes four times a year. More like four times a day for me. If I only had two weeks of depression and cycled four times a year, I wouldn't even bother with meds, I'd ride it out.
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My cycles are generaly tighter than that too. days rathet than weeks but there are times when the manias run over about a 9 week cycle...just now coming off one of those. I hate looking back over all the things I do over those times or worse the things I don't do....
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