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Default May 17, 2022 at 10:28 PM
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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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Default May 18, 2022 at 01:42 AM
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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.

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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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Default May 19, 2022 at 08:26 AM
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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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Default May 20, 2022 at 05:23 PM
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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.

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Default May 20, 2022 at 05:40 PM
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What Christina said

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Default May 23, 2022 at 04:07 AM
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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.What are your signs of (hypo)mania?

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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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@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?
Sorry, unfortunately I do not have a link. It was posted on another group that I'm in a few months ago as an image, and I had saved a copy to my phone. It's been so helpful to me in helping me identify when I might be hypomanic (I'm type 2).

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Default May 27, 2022 at 11:40 AM
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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. 🥺

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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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Default May 27, 2022 at 02:49 PM
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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.

That's all I can think of right now.

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Default May 30, 2022 at 05:29 PM
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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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Default May 30, 2022 at 05:35 PM
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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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