What Do You Do When You're Manic/Hypomanic?

I get really reckless and I have poor judgement. I do all kinds of drugs and drink too much, when I normally don't even drink. I get convinced that I'm on some sort of spiritual path, and that I am fighting demons to keep my soul. That thought gets fueled by drugs, and I start talking really fast and explaining it to people. I send long, inappropriate emails, sometimes to people who I really shouldn't professionally. I get really promiscuous, and do some high risk things. I spend too much money. It might start as hypomanic, but it usually turns mixed, so then I get extra reckless and nihilistic. Hypomania feels so good, it feels intense and like I'm more fully alive, but the depression or mixed state that comes after is terrible. Even more terrible is the consequences of my actions. The last episode I had turned into a total disaster. It was 2 years ago, and my career and friendships still haven't fully recovered.

My diagnosis is officially bipolar II, but I think it should probably be bipolar I. My last hypomania turned into a mixed state and landed me in hospital for a few weeks. Since then it's been mostly depression or neutral.

I usually just get motivated more but not always in beneficial ways. Like starting a locksmith course, then quitting half way thru it, or buying a pick up and snow plow and make no profit, or investing in crazy schemes. I'm great at starting things, but not so great at finishing them.

Haven't really been seriously manic in a long while, but the last time I had hypomania I mostly just kept forgetting what I was doing as the day went by, while leaving random items all over my house. Not bad.

I drive fast, listen to everything as loud as it can be, drink, and clean. I also tend to make lists (what classes i need to take, how to spend my money, why we should move to a different state, etc.). And of course, I barely sleep.

During my manic periods I sleep about 2-4 hours a night. I stay up all night and start craft projects. I will drive far distances to get things at stores for no good reason. I spend lots of money on small, useless items. I also become very agitated during these times, which can be a huge pain.

Understood. I've even been de-friended by a couple of family members on Facebook.

I don't really know what is hypomania vs what's just me? Like, I don't even know if I've been hypo for the past few months or if that's usually how I am. I was diagnosed mild bp ii based on my sleep patterns. The only time there's a big change, aside from less sleep and being productive, is when I'm adjusting to medicine. I get angry and pace and it feels like I can't slow down. I don't want to do anything I have to do and I want to do everything I shouldn't lol

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I love being hypomanic so so much. I clean, I cook, I read, I sing, I dance, I actually have energy to see my friends and go places, I do a way better job at work.
On the negative I talk constantly and annoy people, I push romantic partners or family away because I feel so strong like I don't need anyone in my life who causes any amount of strife, I don't eat or sleep properly, I come up with and start projects that never end up done. But I still love it so much. I would do almost anything to stay hypomanic.

i run, party, do ridiculous amounts of school work while doing something that keeps my body moving (i.e. cleaning), i can't get the thoughts out of my head fast enough so i'm constantly talking. i don't sleep. when i lay down i just start thinking about all the awesome things i could be doing. one thing i have noticed is that even my manic/hypomanic episodes don't help me pay attention in lecture. sometimes when in class i feel as if I'm literally going to spontaneously combust if i don't get up and run out.

I have BP 1 and I shop, become talkative, more assertive than usual and I'm very impulsive -get tattoos and piercings. I've also been hospitalized twice bc I became manic homicidical.

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I'm bipolar 1 as well and I realize this post was a long time ago but I just want to add to it anyway. I write more than usual, go out and drink and it's like everyone I meet is so EXCITING and I love them and they love me and we are all best friends and it's all smiles and I work harder and clean more, cook more, but eat less, sleep less and feel prettier, sexier and like life is more exciting more beautiful, colorful and like I want to experience everything all at once and I know that I can if I just try. It's like everything that I want to do is possible. I believe in myself and especially in everyone around me. I love being around other people and when I'm depressed I love being alone.

I talk to people more. I start messaging random people on Facebook. I stay up all night. I never feel tired. I do a butt load of school work. Want to clean. Those are basic ones.
When I was younger, I stayed up for two days straight thinking a demon was trying to possess me. Craziness.

When I'm manic I destroy everything in my path. I've gone through countless friends including here on PC, and terrorized my family. I'm so ashamed when it's over. I just put a T.V. in my bedroom so that I can stay in my room for weeks if necessary to protect my loved ones. I'm a monster..

First off I have a bad habit of putting more fuel on the fire by drinking tons of coffee. This is a good warning sign: if I can't stay out of coffee shops! Coffee just makes me feel even more wonderful. I get so many artistic ideas that I juggle at once. I binge buy books off of amazon and don't read them because I can't focus long enough. I get really interested in books about the scientific theories of time travel and the idea of chronesthesia and episodic memory and think I have no time to do things because I keep time traveling mentally, when I really just can't focus long enough to get anything done. I exercise a lot and stop eating because I forget to eat. I get more social and drink more. When depressed I don't want to see anyone when hypomanic/manic I love everyone and how could they not love me because my self esteem is through the roof. I sleep less, sometimes not at all but still feel well rested but eventually burn out and crash hard. I skip work and other responsibilities because the world is too wonderful to miss out on.

I think a better question would be what don't I do.

Hypomania positives:

• I write a hundred poems and various stories—some get finished; others go unfinished.
• I create art of various mediums—painting, sketching, crocheting, knitting, sewing, quilting, embroidering, etc.
• I binge watch Netflix TV series or binge read a new book series. Half way through either, I get more inspiration to write and stop in favor of doing that.
• I get more physically active. Even though I may be out of shape, I feel ready to run a marathon.
• I get less sleep and wake up ready to run that marathon every day.
• I feel smart and confident and capable of taking on anything.

Hypomania negatives:

• I get overly sarcastic and my brain filter is gone. I begin to process all my thoughts, no matter how inappropriate, out loud.
• And to be completely awkward now ... well, let's just say hypersexuality can definitely be a part of it and leave it at that.
• My thoughts race and race and race. There's always background noise. A song. A poem I'm composing. An image. You name it, I've probably thought about it in the last ten minutes.
• I get less sleep, and sometimes it makes me cranky instead of happy.
• I battle old addictions—it takes every ounce of inner strength to stay sober.
• I have all the motivation in the world to do the things I don't need to be doing and no motivation to do the things I ought to do.

Mania positives:

• I feel so euphoric, I no longer feel pain. When I was last hospitalized, I couldn't even feel the IV entering my arm.
• I'm optimistic as hell. It might be the worst idea ever, and yet I'll tell you exactly why I think it's brilliant.
• I feel like the most intelligent human being alive. I can see everything in the universe crystal clear. I'll feel like I've had conversations with gods, and I'll start to feel like a god myself.
• Colors are brighter. Sometimes it feels I'm on LSD.
• Sleep no longer required.

Mania Negatives:

• I try complete all the tasks I do hypomanic, but my attention span is worse than a hyperactive toddler's.
• I frequently forget what I'm doing. I've near overdosed on sleeping pills. I'll take one and then forget if I took it or not, but since it feels like it's not working, I'll take another. And another. And another.
• Racing thoughts overload. I can't even put words to what my thoughts do. It's indescribable, and I don't think anyone could understand how surreal it feels unless they've been there themselves. I read an article once that talked about entering the Twilight Zone, and that's the most accurate description I've heard.
• Hallucinations. Thank you, no sleep. My dreams and reality are intertwined. I don't know if I'm dreaming or awake.
• Inappropriate outbursts of anger. I don't know where they come from, because I'm feeling so good, but at a moment's notice, I could be cussing up a storm.
• Everything and everyone is moving too slow and generally pissing me off.

Sometimes I can tell when I'm hypo, sometimes I can't. I guess after 2 years I still haven't really learned to recognize my triggers/moods. So anyway, I recognize so many of the things already mentioned. I figured out I was hypo the other night when I decided to start writing a novel while I was trying to go to sleep. I wrote 2 chapters and haven't picked it back up since.

Jump from task to task to task, achieving... absolutely nothing, zilch, nada in the process.

Hey ive done that one too.. wow.!!!

I will go jogging during wee hours of the morning after no sleep. Read the Bible constantly and pray until I'm high as a kite. Donate large sums of money that we don't have. Drive extremely fast with no inhibitions. Sometimes drink (which I don't normally do). Drive for hours. Dance like an ignorant fool. Crave sex constantly. Do housework. Start speaking in tongues, casting out demons, asking to pray for strangers, and laying my hands on others to pray. A couple of those things I believe are real but I would NEVER do them when I am not manic.

Hi all !

decided that the experts had missed the cure for bipolar so spent days and weeks going through everything bipolar on the net. this was dial up so it cost me a fortune.

Bought about one hundred books on mental illness but never read half of them.

spent loads of money on bass guitar gear coz I wanted the biggest rack of
equipment ever.

Spent about 2k on mens designer aftershaves coz I wanted the whole set !

designed and had a builder put Victorian walls and railings out side my house.

renovated my Victorian house. (energy to burn)

Built a Victorian greenhouse at the bottom of my garden (started work at
5am each morning)

I love hypomania its ggggrrreeaaaaaaaaaattt !

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Read, write, clean, organize, exercise, work, craft projects (most go unfinished), spend money I don't have, sometimes talk a lot

A BUNCH HENNA TATTOOS, no sleep, write pages of a random story I will never finish, start biking like crazy (10-20 miles a day) along with exercise routines, and become obsessed with my weight and trying to lose a certain amount that is still in the healthy range for my height, eating correctly, but not too much. I believe that I can jump out a window and fly, I am invincible, that people are watching me and the government will be coming soon and take me back to the hospital. I also have hallucinations with my worse being a man coming out of my mirror and choking me... Freaky stuff!

What do I do? Well I don't sleep. I think I know the answer to everything. I write reams on saving the trees and the world, re formulating the worlds governments it is positively elluminating....until I try to read it afterwards.

On here, respond to posts after reading the first sentence.

Driving as if I'm on a race track

Applying and sometimes getting jobs I'm absolutely unqualified for.

Being short tempered and rude to everyone.

Ive never experienced full blown mania. But i always enjoyed hypania and wish i could feel like that forever lol.

I buy stuff that seems like a good idea at the time, but that I will probaby never use, or way more than I need (clothing, craft supplies, etc.) I come up with side businesses that don't come to fruition. I clean like crazy and start art/craft projects. Stay up and read online for hours. Those are a few things that come to mind.