[IntentOnHealing]

For me, it's wanting/having more sex than usual.

[Guiness187055]

hypersexual, gambling, drinking!

[Wild Coyote]

Insomnia, spending, hypersexuality.
(hypomania)

[hermitix]

Too many creative ideas, talking more, wired. Hypomania for me.

[hahayeahtotallylol]

Bouncing out of bed, 2 seconds after waking.

Not sure if i've ever been fully manic, but i've been mixed. And i'm being medicated as if i were.

[Unrigged64072835]

Mass focus on difficult projects, working 16 hour days (or more), spending goes berserk.

[franz kafka]

Having bursts of euphoria where I think that everything mundane in the world is magical.

A melting credit card.

[VerMOZZica]

Hypomania for me.Racing thoughts,irritability,spending too much money.For me it`s also talking more than usual.I`m usually a pretty quiet person.

[xRavenx]

Racing thoughts, all wound up, very impulsive behaviors, pressure to keep talking, too many ideas, insomnia, agitation.

With hypomania, I experience more euphoria, heightened senses, creativity, highly sexual behavior and urges, more sociability OR working out my own ideas that seem very important to me that I usually find pointless when I come out of the mania

[Standup2me]

Sleeping 3 hours a night for more than 4 days in a row. Danger sign!!

[Nammu]

Insomnia and thoughts that I can save the trees and stop war if only people would listen to me

[Plastic Fork]

Starting four big projects all at the same time. Excessive thought processing in massive repetition. Forgetting to eat.

[RomanJames2014]

Hypersexuality, euphoria/dancing, giggles, hair twirling.

taking interest in random stuff without no real reason

suddenly becoming religious and convinced I know the bible off by heart
overspending

crazy ideas (dolphin jumping out of a cake)

[zijax]

I smell sex and candy...

[IntentOnHealing]

Originally Posted by franz kafka

Having bursts of euphoria where I think that everything mundane in the world is magical.

Wait...wasn't it just you who asked in a separate post if something you described as a sort of "shiny gratitude" "could be my new normal" or something like that? Because the description of what you just posted fits this pretty much to a tee....

But I have a horrible memory...so if it wasn't you...

[Standup2me]

Smells, everything is so vibrant in its smell. An orange smells like the best orange in the entire history of the universe

[xRavenx]

Originally Posted by zijax

I smell sex and candy...

Same Well said.

[jacky8807]

Originally Posted by zijax

I smell sex and candy...

and then just like this song mania turns into

"who's that lounging in my chair? who's that casting devious stares in my direction. mama this surley is a dream"

[jacky8807]

mania LITERALLY smells like warm air through my bedroom window or the smell of the air conditioner in the height of summer.
or the first freshness of changing leaves in the fall

the two times I am *usually* likely to go manic

[BrittanyAnn2609]

How do you guys get out of mania? I feel high energy, wound up, insomnia, pressured speech, racing thoughts... like I drank too many energy drinks. I like it but I don't because it exhausts me. Tried to nap earlier but I don't think its gone yet because I still have that energy. Might last a couple days.. I switch so much between depressed, and mixed that hypomania doesn't happen very often for me and when it does it's really noticeable.

[LadyShadow]

Originally Posted by BrittanyAnn2609

How do you guys get out of mania? I feel high energy, wound up, insomnia, pressured speech, racing thoughts... like I drank too many energy drinks. I like it but I don't because it exhausts me. Tried to nap earlier but I don't think its gone yet because I still have that energy. Might last a couple days.. I switch so much between depressed, and mixed that hypomania doesn't happen very often for me and when it does it's really noticeable.

I usually knock myself out with pills, and I hate to say it I have a drink, which is not exactly healthy for me.

But for me mania is what I am going through now. Its almost 2am and I am more than wide awake with racing thoughts, basically spamming the boards. It's insane that I have this crazy insomnia. I just wish I could burn out and have a good night's sleep.

[Cdnstargazer]

Mania feels magical. Colours brighter and sharper-like a sharpened image in photoshop. Everything takes on a magical meaning. I get euphoric or agitated. It's one of the two. Slow moving people tick me off. I Crack jokes and want to be super social!(I'm an introvert so it's unusual for me.)
I want to spend $$$ on things I don't need but whatever catches my fancy is fair game. I hand over my cards to my wife during this time usually.
I want sex and I pleasure myself because it aches so badly.
I have the desire to do drugs but I refrain. I do drink more though when Manic.

[bioChE]

Hypersexuality and wanting to spend.