Hi, Thickntired.

How have you been otherwise? Still leaving all drugs aside as you have been doing? I
hope so. That's a real plus for your feeling tone in the long run, as you know much better than I.

Since you know how your manic attacks affect you, you are going to be better and
better as time goes on in calling a halt to it right in the middle of it all when you stop and make yourself think about what you're doing. Try to tell yourself "just STOP it".
I do that to myself and it seems to bring things into better perspective and slow
down the activity--whatever it is that is being intrusive in our natural calmness.

Time for the "lemon thing" (lol), Thickntired.

I'm sorry this has hit you; you've made such good progress over the last several
months. Ask for a tweak in meds if you need it temporarily, and watch your diet,
please. That alone can cause problems of inflammation that make clarity and
calmness less able to manage.

Keep in touch; have missed not seeing your posts recently. Maybe this thing had
been building over some time. Try hard to catch it in mid-stream. So many go
with mood tracking that alerts them; have you tried that? (I was never good at
it, but I think it can be enlightening when you look back at the records a day or
two afterwards.)