{"id":780,"date":"2009-06-15T16:20:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T16:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/cyclothymia-a-milder-form-of-bipolar-disorder\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:01:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:01:17","slug":"cyclothymia-a-milder-form-of-bipolar-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/cyclothymia-a-milder-form-of-bipolar-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclothymia- a milder form of bipolar disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: large;\">What is Cyclothymia? <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cyclothymia is harder to diagnosis for sure- I suggest that you start a mood swing chart where you chart your moods every night- it&#8217;s easy to do. I will do a blog on it soon with a link to a download mood swing chart- there is one in the back of my book Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder along with one of my charts- the book is all book stores- so you could look at it and start your own.<\/p>\n<p>I have charted my mood nightly for the past seven years. It has been invaluable.<\/p>\n<p>Cyclothymia can be so hard to diagnosis as it is often seen as moodiness- the depression is easy to spot- though it can be seen as negativity which further compllicates things! The problem is the mild mania. This is harder to spot- which is why charting the mood helps.<\/p>\n<p>Cyclothymia is cyclical- thus the name! It means that your moods will eventually form a pattern. The depression form of cyclothymia is called dysthymia. That&#8217;s what my mom has- lamictal has helped immensely. Be careful of taking anti depressants as they can cause the mania to get worse!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great that you&#8217;re exploring your moods and finding out what works for you.<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Cyclothymia? <\/p>\n<p>Cyclothymia is harder to diagnosis for sure- I suggest that you start a mood swing chart where you chart your moods every night- it&#8217;s easy to do. I will do a blog on it soon with a link to a download mood swing chart- there is one in the back of my book Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder along with one of my charts- the book is all book stores- so you could look at it and start your own.<\/p>\n<p>I have charted my mood nightly for the past seven years. It has been invaluable.<\/p>\n<p>Cyclothymia can be so hard to diagnosis as it is often seen as moodiness- the depression is easy to spot- though it can be seen as negativity which further compllicates things! The problem is the mild mania. This is harder to spot- which is why charting the mood helps.<\/p>\n<p>Cyclothymia is cyclical- thus the name! It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/cyclothymia-a-milder-form-of-bipolar-disorder\/\">[ Read More ]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11983,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/11983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}