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Living with Bipolar can be rewarding.

[ComfortablyNumb5]

When I get manic I don't get that slap happy hyper kind you read of in your high school class. I get incredibly angry and irritable to the point of self harm. Not very rewarding whatsoever.

[Wander]

Pure euphoric mania is the most amazing feeling and I do love it but friends and family have said I become very selfish and obsessed with the strangest things so it really affects my relationships which is not good. So, if I lived in isolation, yeh, manic states are awesome but the fallout due to how it affects others makes it not worth it. When I was manic recently I went snorkelling and it was the most exhilarating, euphoric, sensory, ecstatic experience I have had for a very long time. It felt divine.

Mostly I get mixed states and they are hell as the agitation and irritability is off the charts and I feel so wound up with no relief.

No. I almost always get very anxious because I'm hallucinating. I also tend to stay up for something like 4 days in a row, no joke!

Last time I was manic, I became extremely agitated, homicidal, and suicidal.

[MtnTime2896]

I love it until it's over and then I realize what's happened.

[LadyShadow]

I always end up in the hospital when really manic, so I don't know how rewarding it is.

[Ocean Swimmer]

Me too. Being ip is bad for me and my family. I've never been in jail. But ip feels like incarceration to me.

[Nene873]

Originally Posted by RxQueen875

When I get manic I don't get that slap happy hyper kind you read of in your high school class. I get incredibly angry and irritable to the point of self harm. Not very rewarding whatsoever.

I'm exactly like this when I'm manic, too. I can relate.

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Bipolar 1, PTSD, ADHD (inattentive type)
Latuda, Wellbutrin XL, Mirtazapine, Trokendi XR, klonopin, Vyvanse, Adderall

[Nate7907]

I have enjoyed them if the past if they are 'pure', mixed sucks.

[StewieGG]

For me it's not rewarding. I have ideas which I get carried away with and get very angry and irritable with family and friends when they tell me my ideas are unrealistic, or that I will regret them (which I always do). I have no insight into how terrible my ideas are until after the mania, that in itself is a big problem and makes me feel as if I can't trust my own thoughts. The only part of the mania that I feel is okay, is actually having energy because when I am depressed (which is most of the time) I feel exhausted.

[xRavenx]

Euphoric mania is out of this world, and hypomania can be too. The euphoria is short lived though. After all, what goes up, must come back down. When it all comes down, the crash is even worse. There's always this point towards the end of euphoric mania when things start getting so confusing and I just sense all hell is going to break lose.

For me though, my euphoric manias almost always turn into dysphoric mania, rather than going straight to depression, so a lot of the time while manic, I'm extremely agitated, anxious, paranoid, impulsive, and it's the worst experience ever.