My mother had two manic episodes about 15 years ago. She was going through menopause at the time and also some very emotionally draining circumstances. She had to be hospitalized due to the psychosis each time. She has been healthy ever since and she has never experienced depression. She is not on meds. She was diagnosed as bipolar, but I wonder if they got it wrong. Likewise, I experienced psychosis during an emotionally heavy time and I've been stable on a very low dose of meds ever since. I have also never been depressed. My doctors now do not think I am bipolar. They said I experienced brief reactive psychosis and the cause could be adrenal or hormonal. I am personally very sensitive to all chemicals like my mother, so it makes sense we would both react similarly to a shift in hormones exacerbated by emotions. It is scary to know my body can betray my mind so severely and there isn't much I can do to control it. I'm very grateful though to not experience mood swings thus far.

Do you hallucinate when manic?