Hi BWR,

After a shattering experience where a string of successes led to mania led to a devastating mistake I did some research and uncovered a string of research papers on a sub-set of mania called success-triggered mania.

Once I read through several academic papers and reflected on my life events I could see the pattern fit my experiences. I could also tally up many of the high costs of having it.

I've written some posts here on how I've been going after healing it. There is a way to see Revu2 posts on the forum or try google: site[colon]psychcentral.com revu2

One annoyance is now 7 months later I feel like I've got a stronger inner self to avoid successes triggering me, the external life is all a mess from the last crisis, and may be for a long, long time or even never fully reparable. I now toggle tween some hope that working to repair all this is worthwhile vs despair because nothing is guaranteed.

One bright spot is I've learn a whole lot in the past 210 days and am willing to share but only if you are genuinely interested. I've paid a high price for this and don't want to waste anyone's time.