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Originally Posted by palerefraction
I started Lamictal (the generic, whatever it is) and it yanked me right out of my mania. Tried to explain to my boyfriend of the time that I kind of missed the hypomania, all the energy and focus and productivity I could get out of it! He did not understand.
I had my own kind of mourning period for the hypomania and have just been trying to work forward and find my own "baseline"
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I've had a similar experience just trying to explain it to my husband. He struggles to understand it but tries. I used an analogy that finally made sense to him.
Analogy: Imagine that you can be a multi-billionaire, but then some people come along and say that's not normal and they drop you down to middle class. There is nothing wrong with being middle class, but you know what its like to have more, so you want to be a multi-billionaire again. The problem is that you can't be that. Everyone tells you it is okay to be middle class and you will get used to it. That being middle class is the normal thing.
To throw in the lows in the analogy, I said that in what you had before you could be a billionaire for weeks to months at a time, but that sometimes you be middle class and sometimes you would be in poverty. In my world, you were okay with the poverty because you know that soon you will be a billionaire again.