Hi,

With my latest rise and fall, I've curtailed most of my pursuit of goals to take a clear eyed look at just how these swings work and how I might heal myself of having them.

I guess this thread prompts me to post my own on success-triggered mania. Not every success leads to my mania, as this table show:

Group or team success — no mania
success @ work — no mania
success with project with partner — chance of mania
success at a private, personal goal — high chance of mania

While manic, I wing myself away from safety thinking and grounding in what is going on inside and outside of me.
Then some mistake, breakage, or fall happens and boom! Crash! and then it's a long, long time to recover even normalcy. Then to repair the damage if possible. Lots of doubts during this recovery time, with frustrated sense that I will never get free of this pattern.

Revu2, Seattle