Ok, so let me describe this. Tell me - does this sound anything like a manic or hypomanic episode?
I do NOT get really happy or elated or high. I do NOT sleep less. I do NOT talk any faster or have racing thoughts or any of that.
I do, however, get really irritable and angry...almost like PMS but 1000 times worse. The littlest thing will set me off.
But my moods change very quickly, very drastically. One minute I'm depressed and nearly suicidal, the next minute I'm screaming at my husband for not putting a dish in the dishwasher.
I never really get "happy" at all. Just angry and irritable, and extremely depressed.
However....here's the kicker. I do get very impulsive. Self-destructive risky behaviors that I know I shouldn't be doing but I do anyways. Binging like crazy on food. Spending money with nothing to show for it (but the most I've spent was maybe $3,000). And worst of all...the sex stuff.
So....is that manic? Hypomanic? Or not?
It doesn't last weeks or months, it's usually only hours or days.
And then immediately afterward...I get extremely depressed again.
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