So, maybe mania contributes to your crazy sleep schedule? I wonder if that's a biological side effect of mania? I read online that a bout of insomnia can trigger a manic episode. Has that been the case for you, bpcyclist?
Since I love research, I found this online about the link between bipolar disorder and insomnia. Don't know if it will be new information for you or even helpful, but here it is:
http://www.antoniocasella.eu/archipsy/Harvey_2008.PDF
Quote:
Sleep deprivation in bipolar patients. A small handful of experimental studies and case studies have reported that induced sleep deprivation is associated with the onset
of hypomania or mania in a proportion of patients (e.g., reference 33). In a study of 206 depressed bipolar patients, Colombo et al. (34) treated patients with one night of total
sleep deprivation followed by either a recovery night or one of several medications (lithium salts, fluoxetine, amineptine, or pindolol). The results indicated that 4.85%
of patients switched into mania and 5.83% switched into hypomania. It seems possible that with more than one night of full or partial sleep deprivation, the proportion of
patients relapsing might be much greater.
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Have you ever been diagnosed with delayed phase sleep syndrome? Can you see a sleep specialist at all? If you have, did they suggest anything helpful?