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CANDC · Mar 31, 2022, 11:51 AM

@Silver_Eagle in my experience, mania can easily lead to a psychotic break. The person can talk about grandiose plans of changing the world but does not follow through with actions. They can talk incessantly and be up all night. In my opinion, mania is the worst phase of bipolar in terms of managing or helping another friend or a person. I have talked until I am blue in the face and not made any progress. The only good thing about mania that I have seen is the person can be so detached from reality that they get hospitalized involuntarily. Professional help seems to me to be the only way out of mania. Another problem is people in mania can put on a good show and can get released too early and wind up in the same situation again.

Here is another more in depth explanation. Mania | Psychology Today @CANDC