Could this be my normal?

The world feels beautiful and shiny to me right now. I feel a radiating sense of love for the universe. All the small, mundane features of my environment feel very very special and blessed.

I'm also getting enough sleep and don't have any other stand-out manic symptoms or psychosis. Could this be a precursor to something or am I finally hitting normal?

I would guess that you are still manic.

Sounds like me when manic

I sometimes wonder if we will ever be normal. I believe the best it gets is just getting by.

I feel the same way. I came out of a severe depression and I also wondered if my outlook meant something. I wondered if I was going manic in spite of lithium, but at this point I think I'm just happy. Every bad day I think I'm getting depressed. Every really good day I think I'm going manic. It's hard to accept being just fine in some ways.

No, not manic, I feel that way all of the time when I am properly medicated.
Your sleep pattern is fine and you show no other BP mania signs.
Maybe you just see the sunny side of life?

It's really hard to say! I mean, the shiny gratitude, if it's not something you have (a) had in the past and it was normal, or (b) specifically cultivated in yourself sounds like a precursor to me. Just the way you've phrased it sounds manic to me.

But you have said you have no other symptoms. (Please don't trust sleep or not sleeping to be your guiding light! I did that and---whoosh! Here we are a year later.)

On one hand I want to say, "If you feel like it might be mania then it probably is," since I had the same sense of gratitude that was almost spiritual.

On the other hand, every time I feel like having sex, I pounce on it, worrying I'm going manic...and that can make having a regular sex drive kind of, er, hard, lol!

It's really hard to say what's manic and what isn't. Especially in the absence of other symptoms. I think we each have our own triggers and signs. I also think a lot of us are sooo scared of it that we overthink every little possible sign.

So maybe the answer isn't as clear as "yes" or "no." Maybe the truest answer at this point can only be "maybe." Which means you have to watch it.

For your sake, though, I hope it IS your new normal! It sounds lovely!

I hope you continue to do just fine, without any signs of potential mania.


WC

Well I sincerely hope this is your normal. Having said that, I would be on high alert for signs of mania.

Shiny gratitude. I like that. That describes it

When properly medicated, this is how I feel. I think that this is your normal.
I feel such a strong sense of being blessed, of attachment to the world around me that I feel a sort of peace inside my heart and soul.
Maybe you are now finally being "you".