has anyone ever just described the feelings of hypo and depression?
in an effort to understand it?

that's what this board is for, right? support and understanding to better deal with it?

for me, the hypo starts like an adrenaline rush. tingling over my whole body, a sense of well being. almost like I was powerful. it gets my brain working in overdrive. suddenly, the impossible seemed not only possible, but I could easily tell someone step by step how to do it! I can't sit still when it happens. I HAVE TO act on it. the tingling is short lived, only exists in the beginning.

I am one that gets agitated and angry when I get hypo. people just seem to get in my way with all the advice of me doing too much and telling me that I am acting differently. that I should sleep more. that I should eat.

I get resentful of those around me, like they are holding me back.

I get myself overwhelmed too, with my new found knowledge of everything and I try harder and harder, just to fail at everything that I started doing.

I would try and take things further and further than what I originally planned. there is no limit to how far I take things when I get that way. A desperation almost, to do just that.

It always ends up in a big mess, at least it used to.

the biggest key to me learning to handle my hypo.... was not to fight the hypo at all. nope, I just accept that I know what's happening and put it out of my mind the best I can. I know that there is nothing I can do about it. no, the key for me is to handle the desperate feeling of needing to push things more and more. I have learned to deal with those desperate feelings and that has made all the difference in the world. now, when I get hypo, I don't take everything to the extreme, and therefore I co exist with the world around me a lot better. my symptoms don't show much, so I don't have to deal with the people around me about it hardly at all. I just say that I am going through normal emotions and by doing so, I am left alone to deal with it alone, staying within my comfort zone and not resenting those around me for exposing it.

maybe this can help others?

or am I out of line?

I have not been diagnosed with Bipolar, I will start there. However when I get back from a trip I am planning I am going to seek out someone to help me figure it out with the right credentials. Although I am almost 99.9% percent sure after doing hours and hours of research and talking and listening to others.

That's my preface and disclaimer:

Here is what happens to me. I will wake up one morning be having me coffee or my first smoke on the porch, and I get a feeling In the back of my throat. I do feel a kind of tingling, now that I think back, but very very short lived like secounds if that. Then that seems to be it. I am off to the races. I shower play music loadly as I am getting ready typically rap songs about wealth or success. ie Foerever, feat Eminem, Drake. cause I love to sing along the quick lyrics are awesome. I put on my best clothes, I mean looking sharp. I feel kinda like you described above and beyond everyone else. I get driven I smooth talk customers, make amazing sales, honestly... I go shopping I buy the nicest stuff I can find, but can't afford. I call up old friends I haven't talked to in months and chat. People I would normally run away from in a public setting. Then I too get Idea's starting up a busniess, thinking I am going to make millions. Just awesome almost God like feelings. Then it goes to far I get to shakey, I start thinking I wont live long enough to realize all these things, I pounder my own mortality. I get tension headaches, anxious, dizzy, foggy, then finally hunger seems to set in. I start getting really really down, but I still have racing thoughts, but negative ones. Then eventually I eat, and finally get a full nights sleep. Then I have gray days, no real thoughts atleast not racing ones, my ego has totally deflated. I realize I ain't no thing just a 26 year old who blew to much money... then I sleep I may not go into work If I do I will sleep at work and sometimes I can get very very depressed last time was three days straight in bed (not to bad that time). Then I start to feel kinda normal just going to and from like everyone else, but I gotta tell you I do look forward to that rush again and when it hits for the first bit I love it! I used to drink when that rush came along and drink when the down came along or use drugs mostly downers for a long long time (been clean and sober for a long time now). I don't mind it all that much, but the depression really really sucks and it's super hard to keep friends.

I left it out but I also get very aggravated, by people moving to slow or holding me back by not doing simple tasks correctly.

I don't think you are out of line at all. I think PC is what you make it! isn't that the point?

[Cocosurviving]

Hypo for me consist of talking to complete strangers. I go so far as to sit down next to them (did this in Starbucks). I shopped for things I did not need and used bill money. I had grand ideas abt things I could do. My ego was huge, you could tell me I wasn't fine. I began thinking ppl were talking abt me, I would confront them.
I started having road rage, I was very impatient and would get frustrated w/ drivers.

Depression is a b**** I wouldn't wish it
on a enemy. I cry abt anything no matter where I am. I start practicing poor hygiene. I stop cooking, eat out or frozen meals. I spend most of my days in bed. I spend my weekends in bed. I stopped attending things that require socializing
(haven't been to church in 7 weeks). I stopped going to the gym.

[Cocosurviving]

Originally Posted by dumbfounded

has anyone ever just described the feelings of hypo and depression?
in an effort to understand it?

that's what this board is for, right? support and understanding to better deal with it?

for me, the hypo starts like an adrenaline rush. tingling over my whole body, a sense of well being. almost like I was powerful. it gets my brain working in overdrive. suddenly, the impossible seemed not only possible, but I could easily tell someone step by step how to do it! I can't sit still when it happens. I HAVE TO act on it. the tingling is short lived, only exists in the beginning.

I am one that gets agitated and angry when I get hypo. people just seem to get in my way with all the advice of me doing too much and telling me that I am acting differently. that I should sleep more. that I should eat.

I get resentful of those around me, like they are holding me back.

I get myself overwhelmed too, with my new found knowledge of everything and I try harder and harder, just to fail at everything that I started doing.

I would try and take things further and further than what I originally planned. there is no limit to how far I take things when I get that way. A desperation almost, to do just that.

It always ends up in a big mess, at least it used to.

the biggest key to me learning to handle my hypo.... was not to fight the hypo at all. nope, I just accept that I know what's happening and put it out of my mind the best I can. I know that there is nothing I can do about it. no, the key for me is to handle the desperate feeling of needing to push things more and more. I have learned to deal with those desperate feelings and that has made all the difference in the world. now, when I get hypo, I don't take everything to the extreme, and therefore I co exist with the world around me a lot better. my symptoms don't show much, so I don't have to deal with the people around me about it hardly at all. I just say that I am going through normal emotions and by doing so, I am left alone to deal with it alone, staying within my comfort zone and not resenting those around me for exposing it.

maybe this can help others?

or am I out of line?

What's the shortest and longest time you've been hypo?