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Originally Posted by Confusedinomicon
I don't think it is smart to devalue your human experience. When you say an emotion is "fake" you're denying the experience that it's giving you. When you start to equate any form of "happiness" to "mania/hypomania" you're preventing yourself from enjoying that moment. Over-thinking it isn't good, either. You should be able to recognize what is a phase and get help if necessarily...however that doesn't mean you need to seek help for every "symptom".
That is the crux of a person who has been diagnosed with a disorder.
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I always like to compare happy moments while manic to happy moments while intoxicated. When you go to a party with friends and have fun... nobody would say the fun "doesn't count" because you had few drinks so it wasn't you.
If you can handle hypomania without much lasting damage... enjoy it. It IS you after all. You feel it at the moment.
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