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Mar 07, 2013, 08:52 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2013
Location: USA
Posts: 1,486
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Originally Posted by Miguel'smom
My husband was jealous when he was considered mdd. He use to tell me at least I know it'll go away and replaced with "happy fun time" (euphoric mania) for weeks. All he can look forward to is a couple of "good" (hypo-manic) days. We only realized the euphoria as mania everything else we considered depression.
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I get confused when people describe mania as 'happy fun time.' For me there is the euphoria aspect, but I experience it as just way way way too much, I'm literally jumping out of my skin, it's 'fun' in a way but also horrendous at the same time. I don't mean to invalidate the fun aspect of it people can experience, but then I think that if that's all it was then it wouldn't be a disorder -symptoms/experiences cross over to becoming disorders when they negatively affect you in very big ways, and I don't just mean the aftermath/in retrospect. Or maybe it's a matter of the difference between mania and hypomania? Or at the end of the day everyone's experience is different. I definitely do not look forward to manic states, whether I'm currently depressed or not -one reason amongst others being that the fact that no one else can think at the lightning speed I do/can in that state irritates the cr - ap out of me.
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