I'm not diagnosed but I have believed to have been dealing with this for a while now. During my possible hypomanic episodes, I:
-Am more creative and inspired (most of my songs/poems get written during this period)
-Make lots of lists and goals
-Many, many new ideas and it becomes hard for me to work
-Increased quality in everything I do
-Decreased tiredness and need for sleep
-More social, sometimes even feeling a pressure to talk and talk
-Happier in general (although irritability may also be present)
-Increased motivation, doing more things that I normally would, those things being odd (rearranging my closet, cleaning the house for Mom, etc.)
-My thoughts speed up, not extremely fast, but enough to have a bit of trouble grasping and comprehending what they are (as they can be weird or nonsensical.)
Those are the main ones. Sometimes, I can get a little paranoid, but that may be anxiety (which I'm also dealing with.)
I've had a long-term partial delusion (as I call it) but I don't think that's directly related to my hypomania.
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"Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say." -Kristin Hersh
"The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth." -Serk Tankian
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