Cyclothymic disorder

Looking back, I think I had **cyclothymic disorder** (a sort of preliminary bipolar, to put it extremely simply) for many years before I started presenting symptoms that finally got me diagnosed with BP1. But once I had a psychotic episode that hospitalized me, it was a pretty quick and easy diagnoses. So you could say years, or you could say not long at all.

Many people have expressed feeling like they are on an emotional roller coaster. Some individuals dealing with chronic pain mentioned feeling like they could be getting better one week and heading towards disability the next. Others experiencing anxiety and mental health disorders described their emotions as a constant roller coaster, feeling overwhelmed and numb at the same time. People with chronic depression also likened their experience to a roller coaster of emotions, going from feeling perfectly fine to wanting to shut out the world suddenly. Those with **Cyclothymia** described their symptoms as exhausting physically and mentally, with rapid cycling between depression and anxiety.

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