One thing that sucks about being bipolar: Looking back at pre-diagnosis times when I felt absolutely, almost overwhelmingly happy, completely in love with the world and everyone in it, super energetic, journaling a TON (almost compulsively) and just feeling incredible in general, more so than I’d ever felt before...and realizing now that I was probably having a hypomanic episode. Does that take something away from the validity or meaning of that good memory? Sometimes I think so, because it’s like the happiness wasn’t “real.” I think back to other times when I felt happy and question whether it was plain old regular happiness or my brain short-circuiting and manufacturing it...but then that feels like a really unfair thing to do to myself. What do you think about this?