Perusing this sub has made me feel like I’m some sort of fraud. This is nothing against people with more extreme mania, this is all my insecurities I know that. But I see people talking about how they started a business while manic, went to college and dropped out, did all these massive feats while manic even if they never followed through because mania. Meanwhile all I do is decide I’m going to do a million different things like get a bunch of certificates and learn Spanish and become a home coffee roaster and never actually do anything. I’ll impulsively have a bunch of unprotected sex or harass my partner with my hyper sexual ass. I’ve never been hospitalized but I’ve wanted to walk into traffic 10 times last week. I’ll order food and other things I don’t need. But my mania seems so tame to everyone else. It’s so dumb but it makes me feel like a fraud. Especially when people I know with bipolar I have told me that bipolar II just isn’t really that bad compared to them. I’m struggling to feel like my problems are enough for the community. Enough for me to feel like my struggles are valid