[Wander]

Does anyone get REALLY impatient when hypo/manic or mixed? Right now I just cannot stand how slow the world runs, especially computers and people. This brings on road rage, me interrupting people constantly and swearing at my electronic devices.

Yesterday I got in trouble in class at university twice for speaking out of turn and speaking when we were supposed to be silently doing a task. I am so embarrassed but I just couldn't not speak at the time. Waiting seems impossible for me. It literally drives me wild. I also get bored easily and today rushed my parents and nephew out the door even though I had time for them to stay. I just needed change and was so restless. I am climbing the walls.

What do you do to deal with your impatience? Can it be stopped?

[Nammu]

Last time I was like that the doc increased my AP

[Wander]

Originally Posted by Nammu

Last time I was like that the doc increased my AP

My pdoc increased my Abilfy to 20mg a day. I have only been taking it since Sunday at 10mg a day. Today I feel the same but hopefully it will take effect in a few days time. This is awful.

[Theresa1991]

I get very impatient too. I start Walking so fast that my sides hurt because I am breathing so shallow.

When People get in my way I want to push them aside but obviously I don't. I get very nervous and angry when someone doesn't get my Point or just takes too Long to understand (let to a thousand Arguments with my mom who is far from stupid but not always the fastest to process new Information, she would say: god, Theresa, stop talking so fast, you're not understandable (even though I think that I was pretty understandable and usually People don't say I am not)).

Everything goes too slow for me. I feel like I am Floating through the air with blast pipes on my feet. Everything annoys me. People seem stupid to me, the Things they are talking about seem useless. I can't stand to stay in one place for longer than ten minutes, if I don't drink meanwhile or work out or am by myself. Being by myself calms me because I can stop to Control the hypomanic Symptoms, i will just be dancing through the room, singing, talking to myself, repeating phrases and so on. Maybe that is why People stress me out so much, because I have to Control myself so much.

Well, sorry, I wrote a whole novel, makes it quite easy to see what side I am on right now...

[Wander]

I totally get what you are saying Theresa1991. Just then I found a speeding fine in my letter box. It seems I can't keep to the speed limit because of my impatience. I was in no rush to get anywhere, just impatient that I couldn't travel at the speed of light. Now I have to pay the **** thing. Sigh...

I'm sort of like Nammu, except my pdoc increased my Lamictal dosage instead.

Like Theresa, I feel that everything moves too slow. That used to irritate me a lot until my pdoc increased my Lamictal dosage.

I know Theresa said that she wanted to push people aside but didn't do it. I actually USED to physically push people aside. For example, when I was living downtown in the city and someone was being a moron about crossing the street and taking too slow, I would actually physically push them out of the way. I got so damn irritated. But this was before I was on any meds.

I also used to push people when they weren't paying attention and were about to walk right into me. That pissed me off.

Me too! (waving hand up high)

A swing into hypomania for me is to get very impatient - which goes hand in hand with uncontrolled irritation. A propensity for agitation comes along for the ride too. I have found that keeping myself busy seems to help.

[Theresa1991]

Oh, the irritability - makes me crazy. i can't stand people around me but at the same time i become the life of the party, so it is always like walking on a very thin line between loving life and wanting to smash somebody's slow stupid face in...

right now i am in my office working a hundred miles an hours as long as i got something to do and if anyone could see me they would think i am crazy, my legs move without me oing anything and i think i look wired like hell, as if i had just snorted half a gram of cocaine. i want to ask my boss if i can leave coz i don't have anything left to do and i need to waaaalk, mooove, mooove...

I laughed so hard i cried reading this thread! This is so me! I'm impatient as hell! I'm super active too. I'm really pushing it with people but so far i've been having great success. Dance, monkey, dance! I am a puppet master! I make people do my bidding! The psychopathology of my will is not to be underestimated!

[bipolar angel]

I definitely talk much much faster, could sit at a table and follow 3 separate conversations at once-talking in each one..but as someone said...interrupt more,not wait my turn...i have become more aware whn im doing this lately and trying count to 10 hefore i talk...
I also feel like i can be depressed/hypo at same time!and impatient. Depressed-no energy to get up clean house/clutter,do laundry,etc-but can get myself out the door to work. But at same time hypi around people-the fast,talk,interrupt,muxh more irritated/angry at coworkers whn not doing their job/i run aroynd do it all at times..then hypi..compulsiclve credit card spending/overdebting..i have all this energy so trying to channel it into cleaning/exercise
.but cant seem to do it,sigh.
Oh,yes,get very frustrated at being on hold with billing companies,insurance,whatever..think about all the people im mad at...whn home alone,will be talking to myself#telling them iff-so i do not say crazy stuff whn see them in person..sigh..bipolar..

[xRavenx]

Yes!! I get extremely impatient during hypo/mania of any kind....and agitated. It's especially terrible during Mixed Manic episodes. Sometimes I'll pace like crazy during those times, and I don't have ADHD. It's something different, where my moods are way out of control and unbearable. I have gotten speeding tickets when I was so impatient and got fixated on getting all these extra keys just in time, because I was beginning to have some delusions. It's as if the world is ending, and I have to do all these things immediately, even tasks that would seem unimportant or silly to someone who isn't experiencing mania and/or psychosis. I'm also very impatient socially during those times, like I'll get angry or upset at people if things don't happen a a quick enough pace. Sometimes I'll think they are all against me as well.