Self-test for Bipolar

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I have found another selftest:
Mood Disorder Questionnaire:
http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Mood-Disorder-Questionnaire

Part 1: 7 or more Yes responses.
You responded Yes 6 times

Part 2: a Yes response
You answered: Yes

Part 3: a "Morderate problem" or "Serious problem" response
You answered: Moderate problem

hm!?
I have allways one point less.

I think this is good advice, although you have to be very careful with depression meds if you are actually bipolar because SSRI's can trigger manic episodes. It's better not to be on anti-depressants if you have bipolar as opposed to unipolar depression.

(manic episodes can also present as rage/irritability, not necessarily just euphoria)

I think I MIGHT have Bipolar II (it's hard to tell for me, because I also had a trauma 2 years ago, who is getting better, but I had the mood swings even before, but in this period they got a lot worser). Right now I feel really good and still a bit bad at the same time.
I was never manic, that's for sure.

Yes, you have to be carefull with SSRI's, but I read that the worst you can take by a possible bipolar disoder are SSNRIs and espessially tricyclic antidepressants!

If you have bipolar in my opinion you shouldn't be on SSRI's at all, you should be on a mood stabilizer. If that is not enough to fully counteract the depression, you can go on something like lamictal which works like an an anti-depressant but it doesn't trigger mania or hypomania.

The mixed episode (feeling good and still somehow depressed at the same time), is this typical for Bipolar Disorder, or can this phenonemone also occour by depressions?

Okay, well:

Total score of: 17
(10-17 Possibly Mildly Manic, or Hypomanic)

"You appear to experiencing some symptoms commonly associated with mania or hypomania, but which are also often common amongst the general population. It is unclear whether or not you suffer these problems severely enough to need to seek further diagnosis and treatment.

If you would like to take this psychological screening test again in the main CounsellingResource.com quizzes section, just click “Mania Screening Quiz: The Goldberg Mania Questionnaire”. Alternatively, please read on below for additional information on how this test was scored, for notes on limitations of this and other such quizzes, and for links to other related resources."

i did the self test three times and got 46 every time, but my doctor doesn't believe me when i tell him about my mood swings and evrytin that comes with them

Why not?
What does you doctor believe?

Maybe you take the testresults with you.

i don't know nd i've had two different opinions from two doctors so far, 1 saying borderline bipolar the other a personality disorder, but no diagnosis as of yet, i think i'll take the test results from all the different tests i've done online as all of them have the same result of symptoms of bipolar. i should add that my health visitor is convinced that i have bipolar, however i now have to see a councillor again, the 18th 1 since the age of 14

That's similar to my experience. I am not Autralian so I couldn't take the test. I am diagnosed with schizo-affective assuming: bipolar type and also adhd. I do not hear voices on medication nor do I have marked delusions, and I handle stress fairly well. My psychiatrist recently asked if when I went home I still heard voices or had problems, and I said no I haven't ever really on the medication. She seems to think that may be the difference between Bipolar and Schizoaffective. I am still confused. Because, it's about basing the illness on the past experiences, meaning before it was treated. Then, of course, if the medication is working too well over five year period of time, then people may forget what the onset was. I think my first episode may have been a manic episode, but they just called it Psychosis. People tend to think I was misdiagnosed and have Bipolar. The problem is I also have relatively stable moods, for the most part, on medication as well. So it's really hard to know what my real symptoms were, being effectively treated over long periods of time. And a lot of subjectivity due to interpsonal problems or just growing up, going to college, and stress?

Well, I can understand the need for a correct diagnoses, but I really think if it's stable most of the time it's not that important if you have Schizoaffective or Bipolar.
They are really close together.

It's not like:
Bipolar or Borderline
for example.

34...I think I have type 2 bipolar, how would I go about diagnosis?

Also, do you think it is worth forgoing medication to use the lows and highs for more creative artwork?

38, bad test and I am Bipolar.

I mean I had already lost concentration by question three, had to go back to see if it was covered in question two, roflmao, true story. It was. I went on and found it profoundly...off, but so are Aussies ;p

(with other things)

Last edited by postpaleo on 24 Aug 2012, 3:16 am, edited 2 times in total.

It's only a problem, if it is a problem.

Kind of unfair, but I took it for my family member.

They don't believe they are bipolar, except that they were diagnosed at a younger age.

I tried to explain to them that it doesn't go away.

Explain.