I could have written this myself, except I haven't completely chalked it up to me being hypomanic yet. I honestly, especially in college, thought that I was just this awesome, super talkative, friendly and hyper person. I thought that the fact that I was away from my home life allowed me to be my "true self" and it became so common that my friends weren't even surprised by my impulses to do something random like run down a hallway, jump on a bed, hang on the couch upside down, want to go out and dance/party during an unlikely time, buy a large quantity of food and only nibble at each piece and be done, hug everyone, have full conversations with strangers, etc.

Now i'm finally beginning to realize that while those thing are normal for me, they're not exactly "normal" in general. T has pointed out somethings that i've done that we couldn't pinpoint where but resulted as a result of "impulsiveness", not to mention I flip into "talkative Teal" and become very funny/jokey.

The last day of summer school I found myself in a hypomanic frenzy where I was up all night and late for finals, ran in the room (literally out of breath), was the last to sit down and the first to get up - finished my hundred question test in ten minutes (if that), made a hundred and had so much crap on that paper it looked like a mad woman was on it, I was flipping it around and over, drawing tables and stuff to get all of my ideas out and get the right answers. Needless to say my teacher (also a T) looked at me with a sense of confusion as i'm more of the quiet, sit back and observe/smile type.

I'm convinced i'm likely in a hypomanic phase right now. In this latest burst of hypomania isn't really the same though. It's more of the constant jitters inside (as if i've had too much coffee except because I know how jittery I am i've stayed away from caffeinated products for now). I'm confident again in my abilities to do anything I choose, but I'm finding that despite my best efforts, i'm not being very productive with anything - just a lot of starting and not finishing.