Yep. The bipolarism I exhibit has a similar path.
Working myself into sickness has been a common occurrence over the past few years and while I struggle to maintain balance with it, I'm acutely aware of the issues now.
I've got no health number or ID so it makes going to a doctor a tad more difficult than I'd like to admit.. Yet another thing in my life I'm trying to get rectified.
Appreciate the share of your friends situation. It's all too eerily similar to my own.
I thought I had it because I sometimes felt very motivated and sometimes very unmotivated, I say “to tick it off the list” because in my case the doctor, after following and monitoring me for 2 or 3 years (healthcare here is not expensive) said:
“nope, you are fine you just overthink it, what you think are episodes are just you feeling normally up or down and happens to everyone”
Ah, yeah that makes some sense. Over thoinking can be brutal.
Was diagnosed with Manic Depression at twelve years old.. I'm well into my thirties now.
They don't call it Manic Depression anymore though. They call it Bipolar. Gift and a curse.