bi-polar disorder?

Question:

doesnt everyone get depressed sometimes and then really happy other times? how do you differentiate between "normal" and the symptoms of being bi-polar?

Answers:
the mood swings in bipolar disorder are severe, not just changing from happy to sad, more like going from ecstatic for no reason to being suicidal for no reason. It interferes with the ability to live a normal life. The moods swings happen suddenly and quickly and for no apparent reason. On an upswing you have grandiose thinking.....like going out and convincing yourself that you can afford to buy a 500,000 dollar house when all you make is seven dollars an hour. On a down swing, it is too much to even get out of bed to go to the bathroom. It's all in intensity.

Ohhhh my roomate was bi-polar. The thing is, they switch from happy to MAD instantly. They can be perfectly fine and then you say one "bad" thing and they just fly off the handle. The next day they pretend nothing happened.

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