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Aug 22, 2014, 05:14 PM
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I have a question...how fast can hypomanic episodes come on. I haven't been right for the last few days. Just kinda off. I've been thinking that something was coming my way.
This morning I was fine and by the afternoon my energy started to increase and now, I'm feeling over the top. my mind is buzzing, I'm trembling and feel like a kid at Christmas. I can't calm myself down. It just keep escalating. I'm getting all the symptoms that I normally get when hypo. My question...Do these episodes just hit like this? All of a sudden out of the blue. It's hit so hard I'm almost panicking.
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Aug 22, 2014, 06:18 PM
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My hypomanias/manias feel like they hit out of the blue like that. I had one friend who said she could tell earlier than I could but who knows.
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Aug 22, 2014, 06:33 PM
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When I am aware of my episode, it seems to come on very quickly, almost as you have described.
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Aug 22, 2014, 06:37 PM
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Usually I can feel hypo brewing before actual symptoms appear..its just a "feeling" ..
But I have had them hit me outta the blue .. last time that happened I was fine that day felt tired laid down for a nap woke up about an hour or so later hypo as hell .. So for me yes it has happened.
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Aug 22, 2014, 06:48 PM
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Aug 22, 2014, 07:02 PM
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my manic episodes build up sort of gradually and slowly.... but I am bipolar type 1 and my episodes tend to escalate and escalate WAY out of control if I am not careful.
Everyone is different.
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Aug 22, 2014, 11:38 PM
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Mine usually build up over a period of days, starting with what I call "pre-hypomania" which is the feeling that I'm ramping up, and then escalating to actual hypomania and then if nothing intervenes to stop it, I wind up full-on manic. (Although I have been known to escalate from hypo to mania within hours.)
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#8
Aug 23, 2014, 03:12 AM
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Maybe wait and see what happens over the next 4 days ... You've picked up on some early warning signs which may or may not dissipate.
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Aug 25, 2014, 09:41 AM
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Yeah....I recently (and am still) entered what I can only call a mixed state...it started as hypo....and it appeared to come on slowly...like I was feeling a bit off for a day or two...anxiety would be strangely tired and then strangely wide awake (at odd hours)....and then wham-o, I was scrambling around the house cleaning, organizing. I decided to organize all my music files from mine and my wife's phone, etc etc...but then a few hours later, I wouldn't be able to keep my eyes open....and didn't want to do anything but curl up and ignore the world....and I have been sort of swinging back and forth like that for a couple weeks.
So...maybe that helps....maybe not. |
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