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Old Feb 06, 2017, 05:57 PM
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Last year I was hypomanic for several months. I had pleasant energy, I had tons of ideas for stories, and I felt good. Then it turned into jagged mania, and that blew. I like hypomania, but it always escalates into mania, and then things get ugly. Bad energy, nerves on fire, jumbled up thoughts and lots of pain in my head. I once described this as, "The illness sank a well into my skull and fracked my brain."

As to your situation, enjoy it while you have it. Have you experienced this before? Does it always turn into mania? If that is the usual run of your symptoms, I'd nuke the crap out of it with your medicines, and make a strong effort to bring it to a halt before it escalates. Next time I get hypomania, I'm running straight to my psychiatrist and demanding she drop the bomb on the illness. A few months of pleasant sensations are not worth months of unending pain.