After a manic or hypomanic episode, how do you deal with feelings of guilt over your behavior during that time?
I made some pretty bad life choices during my last hypomanic episode that definitely hurt my husband. At the time, I "knew" (cognitively) that what I was doing was inappropriate and that I was in a hypomanic episode and shouldn't act on the impulses I was having... but I justified it to myself and I did anyway. (Because I was hypomanic, obviously...) Now, I can feel myself cycling into a depression, and I feel like a total sack of s*** over some of the things I did. So much guilt, shame, anger at myself... how do you guys do it? How do you live with the guilt?
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