Mania is defined as 7 full days of hypermotor activity, grandiose thinking, pressured speech, loosely tied language, extreme behaviors in spending or sexual activity, no need for sleep, alterations in perception like changes in perceptions of color and sound, frantic energy. There's more. Mania is destructive, life threatening, and in need of intense psychiatric intervention. If someone is concerned you are manic, only your psychiatrist can determine what your treatment should be.

Never let mania go untreated.