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May 26, 2016 at 03:55 PM
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How do you know which one you are?
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May 26, 2016 at 04:02 PM
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i have trouble with this. When I stop sleeping for 3-4 days and things get weird and scary, I think I cross into mania. I say awful things, I'm rude and condescending to police and other people who try to help me. I know I'm technically manic, but I think I handle it well and channel the energy positively. Other people around me do not agree and then something clicks and I see how poorly I'm assimilating into society. At that point, even if I'm right, I will end up locked up so I just follow the directions of the professionals and hope I will begin to assimilate into society again.
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May 26, 2016 at 04:09 PM
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sleep. hypo I can sleep, when I'm full blown manic I can go days with zero sleep.
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May 26, 2016 at 04:23 PM
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Hypo I feel really good. Euphoric.
Manic I'm not sleeping and obsessing about something. Not eating. |
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May 26, 2016 at 04:33 PM
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Hypomania gives me energy without reducing my sleep too much, and it stays positive throughout the experience, though I am quick at being ticked off/angry at someone. I get the urge to go out, eat and drink sweets, and I will buy things for others and myself. Basically, the euphoria is amazing.
Full blown Mania means (for me) zero sleep, zero concentration, constantly on panic mode, extreme anger/rage in quick bursts, and I will randomly sob (and laugh) without any sadness involved, but because of indescribable pain instead. I will even rock back and forth while rambling 100 mph, pull at my hair and sometimes hit myself. __________________ . The man who chases two rabbits, catches neither. - Confucius  Good for life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit. - George Allen
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May 26, 2016 at 08:10 PM
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Just enough control or no control.
Beautiful or ugly. Persuasive or ostracised. Thriving or surviving. __________________ Mania kills cells. Brain cells die. Memories become more reduced conceptually, making more efficient use of limited means. Memories shape our reality. Our memories are more or less split in two by abstractions, conceptual reductions. Mood states with memories, concepts, attached. Memories of pain and those of joy. It causes instability, changeability. Fearing that will leave an emptiness between pain and joy and a greater divide. See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me. |
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