What is Cyclothymia?
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- “Cyclothymia or cyclothymic disorder is a mental illness which causes people to experience mood swings which, in turn, affect their ability to carry out everyday tasks. Cyclothymia is often thought of as a mild form of bipolar disorder.”
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In this video I will be talking about what the illness is, what the causes are, who is affected and how you can be helped.
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Gem
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Welcome to my RUclips channel where I’m hoping to educate people on the different types of mental disorders to provide an understanding and learn ways to cope. I also vlog about my own experience of living with mental illness, as well as sharing other aspects of my life. I want to raise awareness of mental health problems and mental illness, so I hope my channel helps you and others.
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I was just diagnosed with Cyclothymia last month, but I’ve had it for over 30 years. The doctor told me most psychiatrists don’t catch it. She knew I had it right away. It feels good to have a true diagnosis and be on the right medications for it. Ive always been wreckless with money, so it’s good to finally understand why. Thank you for this video, it was very helpful. Take Care
You've explained my (self-diagnosed) Cyclothymia to the T. I'm not sure when it started for me, but my guess would be mid to late teens. Nowadays, I pay very close attention to my moods and while the low times really suck, the high times are actually really awesome! I can tell which mood state I'm in by how I feel when I wake up in the morning (crawling out of bed vs. jumping out of bed), my overall need for sleep (7-8 hours vs 4-5 hours), and the type of music that I want to listen to throughout the day (dark and sad music vs light and uplifting music). On average, I'd say that I cycle at least once or twice a week, with no rhyme or reason to it, it just happens. The brief period of "normal" days for me are simply a waiting period before I hit the next turn on the rollercoaster. When I'm "normal" I know that either I'm soon to be headed up, or down- and it's usually down because my "down periods" are many times followed by hypomanic "up periods". I don't want to take meds, I just want peace, or at least a constant hypomanic state (that would be cool, I think)! Sorry for the long comment. Great video!
your just decribed me. (7-8 hours vs 4-5 hours) (crawling out of bed vs. jumping out of bed) i got no idea why ive got all the energy on the low amount of sleep week anyway, my cycles about 1 week.
ive been either having a 1hr nap during the day on up week or going back to bed for 1 - 2hrs after been up for 3- 4hrs over night with some success.
This is literally as if i had written it to explain to family ir friends! I'm self diagnosed but getting formal one today! Im looking ti medicate bc in combination with my adhd im miserable.
@@RQsuperglue I hope everything goes well with your appointment and that you’re able to get the help you need.
Cyclothymia can be harder to deal with because it is easily overlooked. People get diagnosed with Bipolar quite easily by comparison, and yet the consequences of Cyclo will take quite a toll over the years. All the while, the person may simply not understand why they can't seem to get their sh*t together.
I was diagnosed with Cyclothymia over 20 years ago when I was in my late 30s .. but my merry dance with depression and hypomania began when I was about 21 following a series of traumatic events. I'd argue that I'm bipolar 2 given my long periods of depression, my periods of hypomania or mania and other indicators.
I could probably write a book on my experience with it .. because it doesn't fit neatly into the explanation of it in the DSM 5 .. it has caused me lots of heartache and challenges over the years sadly .. thank you for your video x
I’m glad you have a British voice.
with me the worst thing is racing thoughts which stop me from sleeping.
Sugar, refined foods, carbs, processed alcohols; stick to anything truly organic & non gmo. (Coffee is cited - but make sure it is organic/freetrade & mineralized. American coffee is tricky. Thank You for this video! xoxo #EatCleanAlways.
You're looking really well. I've had a really low week, don't know why sometimes it just hits me like a tsunami. It's the hardest when I don't know the trigger. Really great video
Sorry you are having a low week, that must be hard for you. I totally get how you feel and it feels like nothing will ever change but it will. Not knowing what triggers it makes it even harder. My heart goes out to you my friend. I hope your week improves and things get easier for you. Take care. Massive hugs x
You've explained this so well! Thank you! There is a whole Reddit community on this if you want to do more research, all sharing their experiences and very specific symptons :)
I was diagnosed recently at 34. Looking back I probably had my first episode when I was 20. It was rough living like this for so long. Lamictal is working for me so far, so that's good 🙏🏼
Hey Gem, as always love all your videos. Are you able to explain the difference between cyclothymia and criteria 6 (intense mood swings) of borderline personality disorder? Lots of love ♥
I used to have periods of mania but now it's mostly depressive. I am being swallowed up by it and see that it is worsening as I'm aging. Frightened to think of what the future is going to bring to me.
Great video really helpful
I have it, and whatever fancy language the psychs dress it up in, it's basically manic-depression lite. As for "treating" it, it's probably better to be aware of it, and learn to live with it, maybe adjust your life to take it into account, not so very differently from the way perfectly healthy young women take account of their menstrual cycle.
I can't imagine how a human being can function without some level of mood swings. What would make them embark on new, audacious projects, or reflect soberly and regretfully on the ones that failed? Oh-but-right, petre! Vast swathes of humanity apparently do neither. You wanna be like them?
I don't mean to trivialize our condition. There are days when I book a plane ticket to the other end of Europe, just because I think it would be fun to go there, and the next day I find it challenging just to walk to the end of my street. My mood swings have caused me a lot of pain, but have also brought me many opportunities and much joy. True hell for me would be the "flat mood" which seems to be the goal of anti-bipolar medication.
I don't understand any of this (including my own experience) better than anybody else, these are just random thoughts which could be either sagacious reflections on the human condition, or the expression of my own illness, take your pick.
A word for those whose job is in any way creative: I write music, and a bit of (controlled) hyper (and obsessive) is kind of essential to that. I take the inevitable "down" when I've penned that final note as "part of the job".
For the record, I'm on my way up at the moment, just passed Midmood Central. One of these days, I must get off the train there (maybe when I retire).
dude i'm ngl i didn't read this all but yes, the flat mood, you ever been there? they gave me mood stabilisers once and, sweet lord, the only emotion i could ever feel was boredom and it's the worst thing ever
Happy to have found this. I dont know who I am without the swings.
One thing I worry about is how I relate to other people when I'm too up or too down. I always feel like they can tell and worry about me.
So glad to hear this. I have had consistent cycles of depression and outgoing days. It started it since mid/late teens. There are many days I disappear socially and can't commit to duties. Days I feel like I could do so many projects. I think this is me and it's totally "normal" although I would like to have more control over it as lately my symptoms have worsened due to recent mourning. I can't imagine my self without my feelings and mood swings. They have done so much for me. I just want to get more consistent at thing. I can tell you that with time you can do more things by learning how to manage it.
@@ellen9664 i think the only thing worse than the flat mood is the force smile meds. They are a nightmare. Zoloft put me in this state where i couldnt be unhappy. Like i would start getting mad at someone and then id start smiling and i would feel my mood start to lift which pissed me off but it wasnt real anger it was lile the meds were forcing the emotion on me. It was a nightmare
What about the people on the recieving end of your mood swings?
I have this disorder I was only diagnosed two years ago I am just coming out of depression side after learning about my mum is dying
Good video gem x
Thanks Anthony. Hope all is ok with you. Hugs x
I bought 90 cans of sardines on a single trip to Aldi about 9 months ago. It added to my stash of other canned food and other non-perishables. This is symptomatic of the ups and downs and their resulting behaviours which I have experienced all of my teen and adult life.
Drinking heavily to try to manage my low self esteem, depression and hypermania eventually only resulted in even greater extremes of mood and reckless behaviour.
I'm 4 years sober and the cyclothymic extremes have diminished. Nevertheless the underlying predispisition remains. It's just that I have got better at recognising the symptoms, monitoring my thought patterns and regulating my behaviour. I'm not on medication and feel I can cope well enough without such chemical assistance. But after my condition contributed to the ending of my long term relationship I'm wary about getting involved with another woman and even trying to make new friends. But knowing there are other people out there who understand these things through direct experience does help me feel less isolated and less of a 'weirdo'.
Just been told i might have this by my dr
My brother was diagnosed with bipolar! I’ve always felt depressed as long as I can remember . Recently I saw a psychiatrist and she said on my first visit it was too soon to diagnose me as bipolar but she did start me on a mood stabilizer lamictal! I do think that this is what I may have I don’t think I experience mania but I do have time when I talk a lot and spend money recklessly, I have moments when I wanna do things , millions of things sometimes all at once what do you guys think ?
What about the Jackel & Hyde mood swings, rages, short fuse and bad temper that sufferers of cyclothemia go through?
I may have this. I take phenibut to help with my autistic anxiety and ADHD, but it also seems to center my overall mood and thoughts.
You guys should give it a try.
Thank you for the video. Do you know if paranoia is present during the hypomanic phase?
Hi, thanks for your question. I'm afraid I need to do some more research on the subject, but from what I have learnt so far is that paranoia is more associated with mania rather than hypomania. Sorry I couldn't help you more. Take care. Gem
Hi! I have this diagnosis, and i've been in denial about it for like 2 years lol but i'm going to my gp next week to try and get a bit of support so that's cool i suppose. One thing that's been bothering me about the diagnosis is that I was diagnosed and treated for major depressive disorder for a few years and a lot of the info on cyclothymia i found stated that as soon as you hit mdd it becomes bipolar II, but i'm starting to think that is a DSM thing and not an NHS diagnostic criteria? amirite? anyway if you're curious about this stuff and how it feels etc hmu on twitter @sad_gal_69 i'm a really open book i'll answer anything and i won't get offended
Hi did you ever find out a answer for this iv been actually diagnosed with this exact thing today but already have a mdd diagnosis from years ago and presented with with a good few times which lead me here! Gave me ssris sent me into hypomania for a month but now iv been up and down really rapidly since then and liturally just been diagnosed with this today but how can it be when I clearly have MDD 🤷♀️
Okay iv just been diagnosed with this today now what gets me we thought bp2 but because I haven't presented with mdd and only been midly depressed with hypomania during the 30 day mood diary but have a major depressive episode in the last 6 months but the bad mania has been a more recant thing after ssris over a month straight hypomania but then now been up and down rapidly over last month and got this diagnosis. How can I have this while still being hypomania and mdd at the same time?
Hi Gem...don"t know how to send a P.M. so will ask a question here: As you probably know, marijuana is legal now in Canada. I was just wondering if you have any knowledge or info about cannibus or CBD oil for anxiety/depression/insomnia? Maybe a video in the future would be great. do you know if there can be interactions with SSRIs? I bought some CBD tablets in the hopes that it will help with insomnia and I would no longer have to take benzodiazepems.
thanks
Will
Hi Will, hope you're ok. I think that's a great idea for a video, but it will take some research. I'm still learning about it myself but it would be an interesting one for discussion. I don't know how they interact with SSRIs I'm afraid but it's something I will look into. Let me know how it goes. Take care x
Thanks Gem.....your the best !
Hi Gemma, I have this condition and the highs are worse than the lows , ive literally just booked one way flights to Spain, Portugal and just walked around talking to people and often ended up in hospital, very sexually active and you dont care what you look like ,
Could you have rapid cycling bipolar 2 or 1?
that sounds more like bipolar 1
What the name of the song at the beginning
I need help with how to support my girlfriend who has this. Please!
I have to say all the cyclothymia posts are so outdated and behind the times on my disorder, which is progressive, which is lifelong I’m almost 60 it’s not bipolar I don’t have depression. I absolutely have episodes of manic, hypo manic, that I have to medicate now n maintain life routines and progression ima let you know, leads to social anxieties n isolations to avoid social anxieties n grocery shop in last hour open so no ppl… but I’ll talk to everybody but now I’m not doing it in socially acceptable ways, join other convo n don’t even realize doing it n embarrassing and it does standalone by itself now and the DSM-V n dsm7 desk top that’s been out Lil over year or 2, that VA neuropsychologist and the a Mayo Clinic, all real big shots in field, but it is now theorized that a chemical imbalance in the brain that occurred from either a serious deep episode of depression (not my situation) or serious Manic hypomanic exposure to situation, which in the 80s as female in navy I was assigned on five different aircraft carriers for short terms to let boot pilots get final quals n expected to assimilate as female and I did, now you tell me that didn’t set a chemical brain imbalance for manic hypo manic 18 hours a day and standing up for the women who now are allowed to be assigned on aircraft carriers but back then me n a couple others were trial runs and it started as necessity but it never stopped After that. I did not have it when I joined the military, or I never would have passed my MEPS physical n there is no family history. I had no signs or symptoms before, but after four years of being a white shirt, final point checker on catapults one after another creating That bring me another one intense energy, one right after another for 18 hours when your pilot on the deck never went away and I am now being recognized as not bipolar. I have no depression. There’s always a happy ending, always a fix. It’s like a skittles volcano in my head n my brain but I’m a positive upbeat, happy person, but I have lines in the stand and when somebody stepped over my lines enough times yes I will come up and stand up for myself and that’s kind of what I’m doing just looking at some of these, RUclips things that are years old and years ago five years ago they try to put me under a borderline personality cause the old docs had no way to diagnose and classify me. I didn’t fit anywhere, well fast forward in modern times. I’m not a unicorn but I have a rare thing and now the psychological neuropsychological, professional big shot world has realized it does stand alone. It’s not bipolar that it is serious manic, hypo manic, and their is theorized n I support a chemical reaction caused by episodes in exposure of intense manic hypomanic exposures in a lifetime which I had. it is Progressive so hold on and it is a lifelong n it is a VA recognize disability n also by the mayo clinic and I have been approved for my disability Social Security ministration without question because of 10 years with is the VA doctors and treatment n I’m trying to figure this shit out, plenty of records and now I’m driving for the cause of why because I need the Nexus or the connection to my military service to get any military disability for it. Yeah you crazy yeah your focus is gone you can’t stay focused. Yeah but what the VA standing on is how do you know it’s caused by your military past??? you guys are so outdated and so are incorrect and all old history cause it’s way way more studied and a lot more clinical papers and studies on it and everything You guys are saying so outdated n incorrect with evidence based studies now n I couldn’t stomach to listen to any them n could not be more incorrect and I’m sorry, but y’all need to go back and do some homework, some current homework. 0.4 - 1% population has n usually presents in adolescence with disruptive behaviors but I’m living proof all the VA docs confirmed, I had none n no family history, normal growth stages, till bout 30s when it was wearing me out. Friends jus say I wish I had your energy your house always clean … n me- yeah but it’s exhausting too. Now 60 yrs old, focus strays n cannot work in my career field cause that n can’t sleep without seriquil n gabipentin max doses day control n Lil cannabis for the bursts thst happen n social anxieties the VA recommended a emotional support dog I adopted a wonderful older lg Breed n his job to socialize n keep me from isolating n ima tell ya, he gets me out the door now where I used to cnx everything at last min cause I’d find reason n defend as I don’t need to go now anyway.., but truths, I did need to jus anxiety I’d act hyper n not so appropriate n ppl not knowing me looked at me like crack head cause rapid speech n hyper interactions but ima tell ya, I got almost identic memory n absolutely able to talk n listen at same time n ppl freak cause I’ll respond to comments supposedly not supposed to hear as said when I was conversing with another but surprise I do not miss nothing, even back field convo when I’m convo with complete different ppl n caseworkers who not above board, I catch liars quick n call that shit out as lying my biggest pet peeve when involves me or mine n unkind lies to try to create inappropriate labels they think I should have to keep me down n they want unjust powers i have, educated n liked by all know me they aren’t n hate. Everybody that knows me says Sean talks to everybody so if Sean don’t talk to you something is wrong with you and I have noticed the BA people who know me watch when I shine on past one I have had it with and put them in permanent time out and Other employees everywhere at Boudet will see that and start the whispering something wrong with them. Sean didn’t talk to him oh, and guess what there is things wrong with them that I had politely and professionally and persistently tried kill get them to correct but didn’t and I just cut them out of my life then refusing to be there drama and lies about involving me because I am a drama free zone and those creating drama I leave and avoid and refuse to engage in their bullshit. Stupid things they try to start with me because negative attention is better than no attention and people who fake they’re real get no attention And I refuse to let them get negative attention with me and I will walk away and nothing they can do as I absolutely leave them standing there with their shit in their hand and they’re jaw on the floor looking like an idiot and everybody sees because I am not the one and way over there is where they can go with their arguing bullshit, when no solid basis for their positions they want to stand on like it’s gospel when it is not.
my on and off boyfriend just confided in me and told me he has this disorder. instead of running away from his mood swings I wan’t to help him and encourage him by feeding his strength and happiness. PLEASE i’m at a crossroads. willing to take advice whether good or bad. I love him, but I’d be lying if I say I don’t suffer. is there a fix? or should I RUN? we have no kids together and live in separate homes. sending love to everyone because the human experience takes resilience and grit. 🤍🌪