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Nov 14, 2004, 04:44 PM
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When you are experiencing mania/hypomania, are you cognizant of it while it is happening; or do you not realize it until you come down from your "high?"
I've had at least one incident where I was hypomanic and didn't know it until a fellow BPer who was with me told me about my irratic behavior.
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Nov 14, 2004, 05:20 PM
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The only time I know I'm cycling is when people from my group tell me, I usually hope I feel this way for ever
Angie
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Nov 14, 2004, 05:36 PM
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Hi Angie,
Thanks for answering my post!  If my hypomania was productive, I would love to feel that way forever, too. But I'm afraid of doing something very foolish, wreckless and/or embarrassing. I suppose it is the nature of the beast.  Pam
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</font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font> "As I sit on the balcony, a large flock of birds, maybe fifty or sixty swallows swirl around in large circles swishing past my observation post, sometimes in silence, more often with a terrible shrieking. They are like the many thoughts that go swirling around in my head, sometimes making an awful racket..." --Basil Pennington </div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> |
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Nov 15, 2004, 04:27 PM
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Sometimes a person can recognize the change occuring, depending on the form of BP, and/or the abruptness.
People close to you can notice this too once they have experienced any episodic behaviour in you before. Unfortunately due to so many variations, individual factors, slipping up or discontinuing mood stabilizers, etc. this isn't a black or white thing. Take care, DE
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Nov 15, 2004, 05:27 PM
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Thanks, DE!
That puts everything into perspective. At the time I had my "incident," I was on 5mg of Xanax and I can't remember what else. But my pdoc said that it caused me to go manic/hypomanic. He immediately lowered my dosage of Xanax. Thanks again! Pam
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</font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font> "As I sit on the balcony, a large flock of birds, maybe fifty or sixty swallows swirl around in large circles swishing past my observation post, sometimes in silence, more often with a terrible shrieking. They are like the many thoughts that go swirling around in my head, sometimes making an awful racket..." --Basil Pennington </div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> |
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