Is this hypomania?

Hi,

first: I am not diagnosed with bipolar. I'm at a point in my life where I recognized that my depression is oddly regular and by thinking about this I found that I had times in between, were I was very energetic. So now I track my mood and see what happens. In the meantime I search for dialog and experiences of others to see if I can relate to that (does that make sense?)

And now I'm on fire the last 3 days. I feel constantly like I had too much coffee. (But I only drank my morning coffee like every day). I just want to DO things.. In January I was depressed and hardly functioning and now I can run around the whole day without feeling exhausted, want to chit chat with everyone and can't stop singing and dancing as soon as I cannot interact with other people. Last night I didn't want to sleep because I had so much energy I had the wish to do something meaningfull. So my poor partner had to listen to me talking about all sort of things. (At some point he said 'go to bed!')

Is this was hypomania feels like? I mean even if, that would just mean I have something to look for when tracking my mood and talking to my therapist about, but I was curious.

Greetings

I would say it was bit I think it's great your tracking your moods. Maybe chat to your doctor about it and see what they say?

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Welcome!

I'd say it could very well be. As Miss Laura said.

But: are you on antidepressants? Could you sleep?

For reference: http://forums.psychcentral.com/bipol...-mnemonic.html

You don't need to experience all these symptoms or in "totally lost"/manic severity.

At any rate, enjoy! Land comfortably (if it isn't just depression remission).

Hi,

I'm not on antidepressants and I could finally sleep for approx. 4-5 hours. Than I went back to jumping around and forcing myself to stay home on my day off and not go to work because "I would be so much help"

Thanks for the quick answer! I'll talk about this with my doctor.

Does definitely sound like it.

Also a good rule of thumb: do you speak like you really have to pee?

Good luck at the doctor's!

I'm in a similar spot as you: history of depression and anxiety never diagnosed with bipolar. But lookng back I've had a few spells where even though my anxiety was unpleasant, there were times that the physically heightened sensations from the adrenaline rush felt very good. I have had similar too where my spouse has had to pull me away from a several hours long art session in the middle of the night to get to bed!! Especially because in between these possible hypomanias, I actually have excessive fatigue (not from depression, the depressive symptoms are well in remission.) I'm going to bring my husband's concerns to my next psych visit.