[LostItLiz84]

With my recent med change, I’ve entered the happy and productive hypo phase and I love it. I wasn’t tired after 28 hours of no sleep and an overnight shift. Got a lot done and was smiling for the first time in weeks. I don’t want it to end!

But I also know that I have Bipolar 1 and this happy, elated feeling with soon become irritable, angry, poor choices Mania without the new mood stabilizer.

Why can’t I just hold onto this feeling right now!?!

[jaysmotogp]

I wouldnt say I love it, but the only true productive times in my life in last couple years has been when i'm hypomanic.

[BipolaRNurse]

I always wish for that too. But if I go unmedicated, hypomania ALWAYS morphs into a hostile, psychotic mania and I alienate everyone around me. That's why I'm (normally) compliant with medication and therapy. I love hypomania but it's not good for me. (I tend to have more mania than depression, although my depressions last longer than my manic episodes.)

Definitely take your meds. As much as you don't want to, you need to head this off at the pass. But you know that, or you wouldn't have asked.

[~Christina]

Hypo is glorious! Everything is shiny and fantastic colors

But

Mine turn into hell within a couple days.

Sucks

[LostItLiz84]

I’ll take my meds, just wishful thinking that it could be happy and shiny forever.

[Wild Coyote]

When I get hypo, I am very concerned about the irritability and the crash that seems to follow.

I am on a new mood stabilizer . (New to me, that is.) We will see how it works!


WC

[Nammu]

Ditto I love hypo but it never ends well

[piano97]

wow. thanks for this thread. gives me some better insight on things right now where I'm at. I'm not in the 'feel good' part anymore. it's the 'irritable/uncomfortable' part now. i know these things if I'm not in the midst of it but it's good to hear someone else say it. Whether or not meds are the answer, that I do not know. I'm not sure that it's not better to learn how to live thru the cycle instead of using medication which never seems to fully work so it's just a knock-off band-aid that comes with side effects that are more insane than anything that goes on in my head during this. jmho. conventional wisdom would say a depression will follow from where I'm at right now but I don't think that is a guarantee and if I (we) can learn how to live thru the up part, why not the down part too? The alternative is been doped up on meds, indefinitely, that might help keep things in 'balance' a little more but I've still cycled with meds. Is it more 'comfortable' with meds? Yes, probably. By far perhaps.

Completely ditto with what's been written above.

[UpDownAround]

Largely the same except I usually top out at the happy puppy hypo stage. It's how it affects others that causes it to be a problem. Some of those others can be people I work for, so it can be a real threat to my livelihood. Management and clients don't like me to treat them like they are stupid or make bizarre observations and inappropriate comments.

[MickeyCheeky]

((((Everyone)))) I'm sorry you're struggling. I think the real moments of happiness can be found in the middle, neither too happy or too sad

[Sunflower123]

All I have are severe depressions and periods of feeling okay. I’d like to have a few happy, productive hypomanias.

[Blueberrybook]

Oh, I love the hypo too but love it too much. If the not sleeping or little sleep without missing it goes on for me longer than a few days, I go fully manic, and God knows what I might start thinking is a great idea, like throwing out all my pills, spending money on any crap I find, interrupting people (causing people I love to get angry with me), one time it went in to hypergraphia, but extreme hypergraphia, as in I could not stop it at all. I had zillions of post-its, papers, notes afterwards. H had to talk long and hard with the pdoc to keep me out of the hospital on that one; she really, really wanted me there, and it was not a suggestion as she had done a couple times in the past.

I wish I could just get hypomanic and float along there. I feel like H likes me best hypomanic (though he does not know or recognize hypomania when he sees it). I'm productive, get things done, stay focused, am motivated, want to do more or try new things (not extreme new things, like learning to knit, things like that). I am much more social and don't isolate myself so much.

It's taken me awhile to learn my lesson, but even though I hate ending it, I put in a call to the pdoc once I recognize I am hypo because of the consequences of what will happen if I don't.

[LostItLiz84]

Originally Posted by Blueberrybook

Oh, I love the hypo too but love it too much. If the not sleeping or little sleep without missing it goes on for me longer than a few days, I go fully manic, and God knows what I might start thinking is a great idea, like throwing out all my pills, spending money on any crap I find, interrupting people (causing people I love to get angry with me), one time it went in to hypergraphia, but extreme hypergraphia, as in I could not stop it at all. I had zillions of post-its, papers, notes afterwards. H had to talk long and hard with the pdoc to keep me out of the hospital on that one; she really, really wanted me there, and it was not a suggestion as she had done a couple times in the past.

I wish I could just get hypomanic and float along there. I feel like H likes me best hypomanic (though he does not know or recognize hypomania when he sees it). I'm productive, get things done, stay focused, am motivated, want to do more or try new things (not extreme new things, like learning to knit, things like that). I am much more social and don't isolate myself so much.

It's taken me awhile to learn my lesson, but even though I hate ending it, I put in a call to the pdoc once I recognize I am hypo because of the consequences of what will happen if I don't.

That’s always been my issue with starting out in the good hypo, soon it’s full blown mania and for me psychosis comes pretty quickly after that. I’m on day 3 of my new Depakote level, so here’s hoping I ride the hypo through the weekend and then find myself at baseline.