Bipolar II- anyone find yourselves to be mostly depressed with episodes of quick to anger?

Bipolar II- anyone find yourselves to be mostly depressed with episodes of quick to anger?
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answer:I’m also bipolar. Like you, I rarely get manic episodes. I tend to get depressed more often. I don’t have problems with anger now, but I have in the past. I think learning to be calm helped that more than anything. I learned to be calm by exercising regularly and by learning guided visualization, a kind of meditation. I recently went through a difficult time of depression and am just barely coming out of it. How? The doctor gave me a new anti-depressant. He’s giving me a low dose, because some medications can flip a bipolar person from depression to mania. It’s a difficult thing. One of the greatest things I have learned in dealing with my mental illness is that I have to tell my doctors and therapists everything. I hold nothing back. This gives them the best stuff to work with in determining my course of treatment.
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