question about bipolar disorder

[kisikiki]

After the recovery period of major depresive epizode, how long it may take to the next one?

[Alex_X_18]

its hard to tell when your next depressive episode is mine normally happen when I'm going in and out of being manic but that is kinda of unpredictable

[zzzmykids]

Dear kisikiki,
Most of us "try" to manage our stress but unforseen things come up.  Like deaths,  Loved ones letting you know exactly how they feel about your disorder.
I try to do an energy smoothie daily, but have been out of the habit for over two months..gotta get back.  
Journaling is a great way to track your swings.  I found out years ago I hit the beginning of Nov and go through late March in a serious depressive state....most of the time.
I try to walk more and destress in general more.
Music.  Calm, some haunting but mostly instrumental and escape with my eyes closed to created places or actual places and their smells.
I don't know if a place called Lee's ferry is a .com but the beauty and the smells experienced there for over twenty years is undoubtedly the safest place and calmist place I can mentally go..it is at the base of Mead and the beginning of the boats that go down the colorado.
Cuddle time with husband or grandbabies is calming.
Not taking one drink of alcohol when on psychitrops is a no brainer and needs to happen if you want to stay "tracking" in the safety zone.
I also have calmed my life down and no longer have the hectic life style I used to have.
Adrenalin is a rush and I was its junky.
My kids miss the do everything Mom, but both are grown and just need to understand.
Hang in there, I read my Bible for solitude and inner piece, music, drawing, journaling, sun exposure for the vitamin B and D, in the summer playing in the dirt in the mornings and evenings and soon will harvest tomatoes, lettuce, corn, onions, bell peppers and all my roses for beauty in every room and share them with friends and neighbors.  I thought I had thirty roses, but recounted and have 50...so lots of roses of all kinds.
zzzmykids

[Fallen_A]

I'm ultra to rapid. I have done some sort of tracker but as dairy notes instead. So I have pretty good idea of when. I'm more seasonal and my depression are bit longer then a day or two. But hypomanic are more some hours to max two days in a row, here and then, the more funny part that all of this are like more at the same day every year.

I can go in hypomanic state when I'm stressed or strong angst.
I often get depressed after a very stressed period.

So the tracker a very good, a way to get to know yourself.  

[sleepsound]

I rapid cycle so have no idea when my next depressive episode will be all I can be sure of is that it will be soon hours to days ..nor do I have any idea how long it will last ....the same is said about my hypomania...I live a life of total uncertainty.

moonrise

[kisikiki]

Thanks for your answer.... I don't know whether I am seasonal... but I have not survived any stress lately. How you cope with your stress, any formula to control it?

[zzzmykids]

If you are seasonal, till the next season.  Keep a journal, see if there is a pattern to your depressive episodes.  Sometimes stress triggers it.
Me it is seasonal and stress. So I watch the stress in my life, which is high right now and I get plenty of fresh air and sunlight.
zzzmykids