That's an interesting suggestion; that exercise is making your mania worse. I've never heard of that before. Every doctor I've met with say exercise is good for symptoms. But hey, it's possible, right? Exercise does release chemicals in the brain similar to drugs, so why not.

As for the self-mediation with exercise, I get that. When I cut back on the boozing a few years back I threw myself into exercising. Shoot, I need to do that again, I'm so far gone these days.