Posted by Dragonslayer on March 30, 2003, at 15:09:14
In reply to ATYPICALS:Mood Reactivity--how it differs from BP?, posted by Jack Smith on March 30, 2003, at 14:27:34
If I understand your question correctly, it may be a question of the degree of extremes of the emotions. Low, Low and High, High and the rapid changing of the two. Everyone has ups and downs, as we all know. My own personal experience with a friend who is BP is that these mood changes are EXTREME and quite noticable to an observer. They also have certain behaviors associated with one extreme to the other - total isolation and *shutting down* to extreme *high as a kite* and spending sprees. My friend is classic BP. I understand there are degrees and gray areas to
the disorder. There are many here who can probably answer this much better. Just my two cents worth of thought on it.
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