[Seraph]

Ok, here's something funny that happens to me, and I was wondering if you guys do it too.

Whenever I become hypomanic/manic/whatever everything feels new, and I have a tendency to touch things. For example, I may be sitting on a bus, and I'll run my hand across the rail several times like I've never touched a metal rail in my life. Oh ya, and carpet or fuzzy things really get me. I'll just randomly lie on the floor and feel the carpet (not in front of people of course). I always feel like I've lived in this world my whole life but never actually stopped to notice everything around me. I kind fo feel like a kid when it happens.

Do any of you guys do the same thing?

[Moose72]

This sounds like its related to disassociating a bit. Everything for me when that happens becomes hypo-real, yes. Its kinda cool- like what happens to me when I have a lucid dream- a dream where I know I'm dreaming- but this is real. So yes- I've had times when I've had to take in the nuances of things. Then again, other times, (there's as thread here actually), sound, lights and emotions are all way too overstimulating and overwhelm me.

[girlN]

I freaking LOVE to touch things when I am manic!!!!
Do you find that when you are depressed you can't stand the feeling of certain textures?

I have actually been @ my internship site and thought nobody could see me and been caught feeling the chairs and the plants and was asked loudly by the receptionist what i was doing. It was embarrassing.

[Seraph]

When I'm depressed, I guess I don't notice textures at all unless it is an extreme. For example, shower water never feels good. It is either too hot, too cold, or simply water. When depressed, everything simply exists.

I don't know if anyone's ever caught me touching something while hypomanic. However, there was one time in the summer I got the sudden urge to roll around in the grass at 12:00 am just because I liked the feel of it. (Normal people do that, right?) Nobody was around, but I woke up the next morning covered in chigger bites. I had to explain how i managed to get chigger bites while living in the middle of a city.

[Zorah]

we get a strange symptom, where we can't stand the feel of anything textured, we've had it all our life & our father had it too, only sometimes not all the time. we haven't been able to relate it specifically to either depression or anxiety.