I think I have cyclothymic or something?

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I'll feel worried and depressed about nothing for a long time. I can feel irritable and the. It be gone and I'm happy and hyper. I lost interest in stuff I enjoy, and something I don't know what to some with myself. I get anger easily but I don't express my anger. I find I have a really hard time my own desions, also have a hard to putting together my thoughts. Something I feel like I can do something if I just sit down and do it. But my restlessness stop me.Something my thoughts just race. I go weeks without getting a lot of sleep. My depression something leads to deathly thoughts.

I don't have all the symptoms but enought to concern me.

I'm making app to talk to a doctor about this, this week.

I was just wondering with people who have this what are they symptoms?

I go through periods of depression where I don't feel like doing anything but sleeping. I've been taking Risperdal these days so it seems to help. I'm still kind of down but not suicidal.

Believe me, as someone on the bipolar spectrum, it can be a doosey getting a diagnosis or figuring out what you have/your history,. The best thing you can do is journal/track your thoughts over a period of time for as long as possible; start tracking whatever ups and downs, lack of sleep, etc and all the details you can remember RIGHT NOW. It will help your doctor figure out the best course of treatments and exactly where you lie on the spectrum. You could very well have cyclothemia, a mild (doesn't mean it isn't serious, it is just "less severe" compared to full fledged bipolar) for of bipolar disorder, more closely related to bipolar 2 which has hypomanic (elevated) episodes and depression.

Cyclothemia usually has rapid cycling episodes of hypomania and depression; bipolar usually will have your ups/downs last for a period of months before you shift. There is a lot more to it, and only a medical professional can tell you where you lie. But also, diagnosis can shift, as can your brain chemistry with age. All I know is it is better to get help now before you get older; I was told by my doctor that because i neglected treatment for so long I might be bipolar 2 as opposed to cylothemic. Had I been managing my disorder instead of ignoring all the warning signs and what I was told years before I got medicated, I might have avoided that fate. But you can't know.

Also, do you have any siblings? Do disorders of this sort run in your family? It can make it easier for the doctor to figure your case out if you do have a pre-existing family condition and knowledge about the details of that. Telling the doctor about my brothers bipolar disorder helped to narrow the medication field and how I might react to something.

Didn't mean to ramble so much there; Just trying to be thorough! I was so freaked myself, I know it can suck when you don't know where your thoughts lie. Racing thoughts; always fun.