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Well I was diagnosed years ago with it actually haha. Though it was never this severe. The way it manifested back then was far more emotional, it usually never fucked with my motivation or energy this hard, I would just have a week or two of awful venting and bad sketches, then all was well after that.
For a good 2 years I had no symptoms at all, and I had stopped taking the medication a little before that since I felt that it wasn't needed?
Anyhow it seems really odd for it to come back in a completely different, and somehow more debilitating way.
Bipolar disorder generally gets worse with time, it's a degenerative illness
That's fun to know haha, I always thought that it was constant and some people just had it worse
Some people do have it worse, that's true.
But each episode increases the risk and potency of new episodes, especially when unmedicated
Source on both of those, please?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7524411/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36435402/
Yeah in that case I would go back to the doctor who first diagnosed you. Sometimes the brain just needs a bit of help to regulate itself properly, just like any other organ.
Maybe also have a look into adhd, itβs getting commonly misdiagnosed as bipolar