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So I'm feeling good but my behavior is off. so I was going to ask what is your signs for (hypo)mania? When do you know it's just you?
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Pretty much the list of symptoms in the DSM. And usually most of them.
Gosh, it seems like such a while since I was hypomanic and even longer since I was full-blown manic. My first notable symptoms are usually high energy and disinhibition, but again, I usually have most all symptoms. When pure hypo/manic, I feel elated and all powerful. Even more fearless than usual. When full-blown, my behavior is clearly dysfunctional and VERY noticable, and in a bad way. __________________ Dx: Bipolar type 1 Psych Medications: * Tegretol XR (carbamazepine ER) 800 mg * Lamictal (lamotrigine) 150 mg * Seroquel XR (quetiapine ER) 600 mg I also take meds for blood pressure, cholesterol, and tachycardia. |
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racing thoughts, not sleeping (and thinking I don't need sleep), motor-mouth, euphoria, hypergraphia, hypersexuality, agitation, fidgeting/pacing more than usual, "thinking in poetry"
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I struggle to know when I'm genuinely happy and when I'm starting to go high. I've asked my mental team several times to help me with this as I'm completely stumped. I'm still waiting. I would say I think I'm higher than normal and they would either say I'm fine or I'm actually manic. So where do you draw the line?? I'm interested in this thread for sure
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Hypo is joyful. Colors seem brighter. Music means more. I don’t need sleep because I’m to busy to sleep.
When it slides into mania it’s dark and ugly, I feel rage-y. Total self loathing. I will never chase mania because I’m just not safe from myself. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk __________________ Helping others gets me out of my own head ~ |
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What Christina said
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This chart helps me identify a lot. I was off for a couple months. Got super stressed out. I was able to recognize my hypomania/mixed hypomania from this.
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@scatterbrained04 that chart might be a help to someone. Do you have a link to where that came from so it is easier to read?
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I don't sleep I drive 90 mph I can't shut up I spend way too much money I cry a lot I'm irritable as hell I can't sit still and I don't use punctuation.
I also joke a lot. It's a coping mechanism. 🥺 __________________ You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. ~ Robin Williams Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? ~ Pink Floyd |
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Oh, and I flap my hands so hard that I've somehow injured my arms but I'm too embarrassed to tell my PCP. 😞
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I feel like everything is alive, or has a life energy kind-of like an electricity, going through it. That energy makes me feel powerful (invincible or grandiose, maybe?). The world seems to be moving way too slowly and that causes me to be irritable and angry. I will tend to work and work at *whatever* until I'm frantic. Turn music on and dance and sing until I feel exhausted. These past few months I've started thinking that I can stop sleeping.
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I usually just feel really good and full of life, super goofy, making jokes and having fun, singing. Often annoying the hell out of my wife, but at the time, that's her problem. Then, went the smallest thing doesn't go my way, the floor drops out. Instant anger later leads to mixed hypomania, with at least half the above chart's symptoms.
The problem is, I never really know if I'm legitimately feeling good, or if I am headed for a crash. Sometimes it's pretty apparent when a crash is coming, when I'm a bit too up, but other times no crash comes. Bipolar is so confusing and disorienting. |
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I usually start to get feeling high when I am low blood sugar then when I get low enough I feel no energy.
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