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Old Feb 16, 2015, 05:32 PM
TRNRMOM TRNRMOM is offline
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Originally Posted by bpfighter250 View Post
For me, any little blip in my ability to fall asleep and sleep soundly through the night is my first sign that I may be entering what I deem "hypomania".

Last night I found myself awake two hours after going to bed. (Normally I take my Seroquel right before bed and it kicks in right away and I fall asleep quickly and soundly until the moment my alarm rings.) I need sleep in order to function in school so I took an Ativan to get me to sleep, which helped.

Anyways, I am going to try and avoid this from happening again. Normally I exercise in the evenings, but for me the goal of exercise seems to be avoidance of depression. I started exercising more frequently the last couple of weeks after a mild depressive episode and maybe I overdid it (5 days a week of fairly intense exercise). I like to spin which gets me sweating pretty good. Maybe exercise wakes something up in my brain and gets me back into the up mode.

Ugh. I just want to stay at an even keel. Does anyone out there have any advice?

my diagnosis for more than 35 yrs. bp2; i have hypomania only…no depression. i'm female, 68 yrs. old and retired but i have been exercising daily for about 30 yrs.; since i no longer have a job i can choose the time to exercise but over the years i found exercising in the morning works best for me; i do a lot of cardio on the machines or take a spin class; use high energy music which to me burns off some of the mania i have yet never listen to those songs for the rest of the day; i work out hard but still need 1/2 seroquel nightly to sleep; otherwise i have racing thoughts and cannot sleep w/o a med.
Thanks for this!
bpfighter250