This has bothered me for a while. I was told I was manic by two different people because of the things I was saying, but I was sleeping at least 6 hours the whole several month period.

My mood can get very high at times, but the last time it happened and was hospitalized, my cognition and perceptions were significantly altered, and I appeared grandiose because I was enthusiastic about my revelations. My overall energy, appetite, and ability to sleep didn't change much, but I was focused on writing and refining my way of going about enlightening the world for most of the time--keeping to myself and not talking about it much.

The only time I miss sleep is during depression or have rapidly fluctuating moods and stress.

Maybe I was only hypomanic, but my subject of focus made it present as more severe, and my bp1 diagnosis gave them no reason to question if it was mania or hypomania.

Maybe...sleep disturbance isn't a manic symptom for me? Is that even possible?

Maybe all that focus put into writing kept it from intensifying much, whereas it could have gone a different direction and I wouldn't be here questioning it now?

Maybe I'm just a weirdo?

Thoughts?