Whether your history includes stretches of unusually high energy, less sleep, and riskier judgment — and a drop afterward. Not a diagnosis.
About this test
The Mood Disorder Questionnaire (Hirschfeld and colleagues) screens for a period of elevated or irritable mood plus symptoms such as less need for sleep, pressured speech, racing thoughts, distractibility, increased activity, and risky behavior, along with impairment. Bipolar-spectrum research treats those episodes as distinct from ordinary happiness and from a single good day. These items are original and ask about episodes, not about your personality. A high score means the pattern was familiar. Only a qualified clinician can sort bipolar disorders from sleep loss, substances, medications, ADHD, or a joyful week.
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What this test asks
There have been stretches of several days when my mood was much higher or more irritable than my usual self, not only glad about one clear event.
In those stretches, I needed much less sleep and did not feel tired the way I normally would.
I was more talkative than usual, or I felt a pressure to keep talking.
Thoughts raced, or jumped so quickly that other people had trouble following me.
My attention was pulled to unimportant things, and it was hard to stay with one task.
I took on more projects, movement, or social plans than my ordinary week could hold.
I did things that were riskier than my own usual standard — spending, sex, driving, or decisions I later did not recognize.
My energy and need for sleep stay in a familiar range from one week to the next.
During a high stretch, it caused problems, or people who know me said I was not myself.
After a high stretch, my mood dropped well below my usual baseline.
Those stretches were not explained by a substance, a medication, or one obvious celebration.
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