05-27-2017, 08:16 AM
Day 45 (A1) - Bipolar? - I started thinking about the fatigue and mild depression I have experienced over the last several days. I went through a similar depressed stage during days 14-19ish as I have currently experienced 42-45. I find it striking how the 2 episodes are 28 days apart exactly. Over the past several years while doing subs, whenever I went through a depressed period I always assumed that it was resistance but now I am no longer leaning that direction. During the manic periods I am simply better and more effective at everything. Work, women, athletics, socially, everything. Luckily this makes up the bulk of my life. The depressed period is not dibilitating for me I'm just fatigued and change from an extrovert to an introvert. But I all of the sudden also become somewhat socially awkward. Basically I don't read body language and non verbal ques as well. I'm so effective during the manic phase that quite frankly I would rather deal with three to five days of depression each month as opposed to being evened out by medication. Now that I think about it I've had these episodes from High School forward. I am just beginning to explore this part of me and have only scratched the surface here. I plan to use this journal to not only track dmsi and my sub usage but also status of this possible disorder. The only reason I'm figuring this out now it's because for the first time in my life I've been keeping a consistent Journal which enabled me to track these ups and downs.
Grit