No, I think she was acting like how a first time pregnant woman would act. My friend said some of the stuff Abby was doing/saying was how she felt when she was pregnant.
And after all the shit with Maggie and Eric I don't think they would have Abby be bipolar. At least I pray they won't.
Well, the writers might not, but I imagine it's given shippers and fic writers some material to ponder.
She might not have the kind of full-blown symptoms her mother and brother suffered, but we've had *years* of foreshadowing -- Abby does have recurring, fairly fast-acting deppressive moments, and she has been self-medicating with alcohol -- and bipolar can manifest in someone prone to it after a major life change.
I guess we'll wait and see, but it's given me all kinds of ideas...
My mom said the same thing during the episode... but I don't think the writers are actually going to go there (because they never continue with any storyline that would be interesting, or one I would actually want to see...).
nah, abby's not acting manic, she's just giddy and nervous because it's just really hit her that she's having a baby. (my mom is bipolar, so I have a very finely tuned sensor for these things.)
actually, I was thinking more about how, in the last scene where neela and gallant are fighting about him wanting to return to iraq without her, she says exactly what abby said to her when she told her she was getting married-- that is, that she didn't really know him. now seems like a good time for neela to go running back to abby for comfort...especially since they've made it quite clear that abby and luka aren't planning on getting married or moving in together, or anything...
but, on the other other hand, when abby was babbling about baby monitors and luka said that both of their apts were too small to need one, and she said "maybe it's not for this apartment," coupled w/ her talk about nesting, I got the distinct impression that she's thinking about asking him to move in w/ her in a bigger place. maybe they're gonna go suburban, get a
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She may not be manifesting full-blown mania, but she's definitely manifesting some kind of high-energy phase, regardless of how understandable it may be.
You can have symptoms that are in agreement with a kind of "mini" or "mild" bipolar for years or decades, bubbling under the surface, and get them pushed up into more severe symptoms by a major life change. I'm pretty sure the writers wont go entirely in the direction I outlined above, but if this were real life, and she was a personal friend of mine, I'd have told her to check her mood changes some time ago, and I'd be asking her to at least get some kind of handle on how energetic she's feeling, given her family history.
smokin' dr. albright Yes! After Abby, she would definitely be my first choice for Neela. But since this is an Abby/Neela list, we need to find someone else for Albright. (Bring back Elizabeth, perhaps?) And we need a first name. Totally off the topic of this entire post, but I really hope we get more of her character. She interests me.
I don't know about "too old". A symptom free person is really unlikely to develop symptoms out of nowhere after about 30, and decreasingly likely with each year after that. However, she's had sub-acute symptoms pretty much the whole time we've known her, and very probably since before then. Major events can kick "personality" into "disorder" with a lot of illnesses, including bipolar. Even if her symptoms don't get bad enough to cross that "disorder" line, they do seem to have been getting stronger and clearer over, well, the last year certanly, and really the last couple of years.
I am telling you guys, this is not manic behavior. believe me. the difference between biploar people and "regular" people is the intensity of the mood swings, not the mere exsistence of them. everybody has phases; it's just a question of how deep you go in either direction. like sunny octoberus said, abby hasn't been making any questionable decisions lately; true mania is charaterized by large, spontaneous decisions (for example: deciding out of nowhere to start a business, and then immediately printing up 1,500 business cards before realizing the idea isn't feasable without a lot more long-term planning, leading to a push into depression which shuts the whole idea down...or, telling your 13-year-old daughter as you're walking down the street that money is very tight right now, and we have to be very frugal, and then seeing a 4-foot-tall statue of liberty in a store window and deciding right then and there than you MUST have it, and when aforementioned daughter reminds you that you just said you didn't have any money, you say, "oh, it
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It's manic. It's just not at the point where it's severe enough to indicate a manic *disorder*. Personality doesn't become disorder in the blink of an eye, though
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And after all the shit with Maggie and Eric I don't think they would have Abby be bipolar. At least I pray they won't.
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She might not have the kind of full-blown symptoms her mother and brother suffered, but we've had *years* of foreshadowing -- Abby does have recurring, fairly fast-acting deppressive moments, and she has been self-medicating with alcohol -- and bipolar can manifest in someone prone to it after a major life change.
I guess we'll wait and see, but it's given me all kinds of ideas...
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actually, I was thinking more about how, in the last scene where neela and gallant are fighting about him wanting to return to iraq without her, she says exactly what abby said to her when she told her she was getting married-- that is, that she didn't really know him. now seems like a good time for neela to go running back to abby for comfort...especially since they've made it quite clear that abby and luka aren't planning on getting married or moving in together, or anything...
but, on the other other hand, when abby was babbling about baby monitors and luka said that both of their apts were too small to need one, and she said "maybe it's not for this apartment," coupled w/ her talk about nesting, I got the distinct impression that she's thinking about asking him to move in w/ her in a bigger place. maybe they're gonna go suburban, get a ( ... )
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You can have symptoms that are in agreement with a kind of "mini" or "mild" bipolar for years or decades, bubbling under the surface, and get them pushed up into more severe symptoms by a major life change. I'm pretty sure the writers wont go entirely in the direction I outlined above, but if this were real life, and she was a personal friend of mine, I'd have told her to check her mood changes some time ago, and I'd be asking her to at least get some kind of handle on how energetic she's feeling, given her family history.
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Yes! After Abby, she would definitely be my first choice for Neela. But since this is an Abby/Neela list, we need to find someone else for Albright. (Bring back Elizabeth, perhaps?) And we need a first name.
Totally off the topic of this entire post, but I really hope we get more of her character. She interests me.
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