I feel pretty questionable about my mania at the moment. My mom keeps bringing me up, but I feel fine, and usually for bipolar that really doesn't mean you're fine.

How I get through my mania is through reasoning, which apparently is very hard to do when bipolar, but my dad taught me how to effectively reason early on as I grew up. I think through every decision I make and weigh the pros and cons, but sometimes I get so overwhelmed trying to make a decision. And obvious signs of mania is being impulsive. Like today, when I decided that instead of saving my money I spent it on scratchers even when I knew that I was borrowing money from my camping fund. But I know that even when making a major decision while manic, I am always making sure that I am weighing the pros and cons.

Right now I am really jacked up about going back to college. It's a little scary because I got all D's in my classes while heavily medicated, and I took a year off to stabilize. But now I am healthy and though I might seem a little manic, I am making sure I don't overwhelm myself by taking too many classes. I've never taken four classes before, but I think I can handle it. I just have to retrain my brain and learn how to study and put effort into it.

How do you guys get through your mania?