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#1
Jan 14, 2016, 02:35 PM
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What are your experiences? Do you notice before it's too late? I know the clinical "signs" but what are the things you notice? Little things, big things.. Do your loved ones notice before you? Do you feel it? Sensations, a switch, the racing? Does it feel normal or like a thing is happening?
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Jan 14, 2016, 04:15 PM
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My boyfriend tends to notice when I'm becoming hypomanic a little before I do. He says that my behavior becomes very jittery, I become impatient, annoyed at small things, and sometimes he tells me my demeanor becomes very sexual even if it's unintentional (flirtatious, etc), and I start staying up a lot later. Those are the initial symptoms that I tend to not necessarily notice.
I do begin to notice by the time it's interfering with my sleep and I have a significant urge to get as many things done as possible.
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Jan 14, 2016, 04:44 PM
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I think there are signs before these but these are the ones I notice myself: I get extremely sensitive to sound. We use a test at my therapist's office. He has 2 clocks that tick and if I am really irritated because they don't click in sync then I'm on the way up. I tend to jiggle my feet a lot on the way up which at least lets others know; sometimes I notice this, sometimes I don't and sometimes I notice and don't care or acknowledge it has meaning. I isolate more and more the more manic I get because I hate noise and light and movements; they all disturb me greatly and I get very irritable and don't want to accidentally take that out on people. Sleep goes away (although that also happens with anxiety or PTSD popping up or just for fun sometimes). I will forget to eat without reminders. I'm sure there are more; I never think about what it is like when it isn't happening.
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Jan 14, 2016, 07:25 PM
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Start staying up later and try to cram more crap into my day. Take on more and more projects. Those are the very first things I notice.
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Jan 14, 2016, 09:56 PM
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The first thing that happens is usually much better mood like a flip of a switch. I am depression and anxiety proof like I'm wearing armor
I am an introvert by nature but in hypo I will start to want to CONNECT with everybody. Less sleep more energy more creativity Like a two thousand pound weight has been lifted lol
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Jan 14, 2016, 10:08 PM
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can't really tell you what , just a feeling but I know ... slowing down , chilling out , of course xanex , so far so good ... no answer for down yet ...
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Jan 15, 2016, 12:37 AM
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I am learning to understand and recognize the signs but don't know yet how to deal with them or manage them. I usually get agitated, talk fast and over people, stay up late, wish everything would just "work" in my favor, get paranoid about all sorts of stuff, and blame the world for all of my problems.
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Jan 15, 2016, 12:10 PM
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Jacky that was me yesterday EXACTLY. Now I'm an angry crazy mess! I think I slept too much and sent everything to hell! All I can think to do is smash everything in sight! Every thought makes me more emotional and desperate. I can feel it well up inside me almost to snapping point. I'm a monster and I'm going to ruin everything again. Speeding makes it feel better. Horrible hateful porn makes it feel better. I have to put out of my mind all of the other horrible things that would potentially "make it feel better" because if I let them in they will take me hostage.
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#9
Jan 15, 2016, 01:35 PM
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I start doing a lot of things and feel like I can do anything. I talk and laugh a lot more. Then the anxiety kicks in and I get really agitated.
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Jan 15, 2016, 01:53 PM
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My manias have been extrememly severe but few and far between. Because of this, I have become painfully self-aware and read into evertything that slightly resembles hypo-mania. At first I stop sleeping so much until eventually I find myself still dancing to music off my computer at 5AM. I become short and evenutually angry with my family. I start hallucinating (as long as I still am in touch with realility I can recognize them as hallucinations). I start experiencing delusions and paranoia. It is when I cannot tell reality from delusion that I become most concerened. That is where my large support team comes in. There is usually at least one person I can comfortably bounce my thoughts and ideas off of. I do spend noticably more money (sometimes substantially more money). My husband says I get "crazy eyes." I also isolate and if it's really bad I get pressured speech.
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Jan 15, 2016, 05:44 PM
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I differentiate between my hypo and full mania
My hypo is usually a great thing and my delusions are that of grandeur and my psychic and spiritual abilities Mania is a different beast lol
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