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Old Aug 14, 2014, 05:42 PM
Anonymous45023
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Originally Posted by sui generis View Post
I'm interested in hearing peoples experiences when they're hypomanic. Specifically with actions, things you did, somatic symptoms, not so much in feelings as I've heard plenty of people describe what they feel when they're hypomanic.
Electric with energy (which can let loose in either negative or positive ways). Random examples….Jumping up and down in place (can NOT be still). Bouncing across the bed, "Get up! Get up! Get up! Hahahahahaha!!" Talking a mile a minute on several different things, but all mashed together (I'm told it's very hard to follow, lol). Having inappropriate responses, like giggling when someone is talking about something serious, because I just can't stop smiling and laughing. At nothing. Entertaining myself out loud speaking more than one role in the "conversations"(which is something I do often, but usually without laughing so much thinking I am soooo freaking funny.). Cleaning like a thing possessed (ummm, right up to trash, recycling and compost carts that aren't even mine(!) Riding a bike around only standing up. Basically, like a kid on a sugar rush, can't STFU (and no filter) or stay still. Except that it can go on for days or weeks and I'm quite a few decades older than that. I can be extremely amusing (almost as much as I think I am, lol!) and/or annoying.

Or…. it can get ugly. Random examples….Screaming at and wailing on my car because it is stuck in the snow. Then continuing with a tirade against the general population. Screaming at strangers because they are jerks or are stepping on my last nerve with some noise. Kicking hole in wall. Breaking down door because I forgot my keys. Throwing myself into the wall. Almost (TG not) leaving work immediately after getting there to hop back on my bike to chase down a giant RV (lol, there's a visual for ya!)because the old guy driving it pissed me off. Saying exactly what I think. (Undiplomatically, which is uncharacteristic.) Walking over and telling a customer that they needed to leave because it might get busy(!) (Aaaand -- they did! PO'd, they were…) Flailing, throwing and thrashing things when frustrated. I've even bitten my own arm before I knew what was happening(!) (WTF?!!!) Putting speakers in windows blasting punk at neighbors who were having a party, because they had music I couldn't stand, one lady with a super-annoying laugh, and a guy who never STFU (ironic, eh?) It was the combo that sent me and I couldn't shut it out at all.

Things are just sooo amplified. There is waaay too much energy to contain. (I only just barely manage to keep from throwing myself on the floor and writhing because someone is taking too long saying something. But I will be squirming wherever I am, unable to entirely physically hide it.)

Yikes. It's a bit much to see even this much written all together(!) Pretty embarrassing really, but there you have it. (Some of it anyway.) Actions and physicality galore, really. Characteristically, I'm generally shy, unobtrusive, and keep to myself. Can scarcely make even fleeting eye contact.

Last edited by Anonymous45023; Aug 14, 2014 at 06:13 PM.
Thanks for this!
bipolar angel, sui generis