[salix11]

For the past week I've been having bouts of really supremely intense irritability, where I feel like I could explode (not in anger, but so full of that kind of energy that my body could literally burst) or like running down the street screaming like a banshee. This is worse than anything else I've been feeling at the time! Every little thing is getting on my nerves - the weather, someone coughing, the fact that there's tons of space in this room yet someone has to sit right across from me, the temperature of the room...I feel my blood boil in response to them all.

I do not really understand why. My life is actually taking off in big positive directions yet I feel really awful - I'm also dealing with insomnia, feeling really wired and restless and unable to concentrate on anything, and then having periods of feeling like total gold usually with the result of saying some off-the-wall stuff that make my friends laugh hysterically and then me wondering what I was talking about later when I read it.

I've not actually been lashing out, but I guess I look really tired and/or angry at times and it's been remarked on by multiple people lately. During one of my periods of feeling like a million bucks I apparently was saying stuff to the point of him wanting to award me something for saying the craziest things. I have no idea what's going on with me, and the last time I was seen by a psych (over half a year ago) I was not like this and got a clean bill of health.

Almost forgot to mention, the energy I do have feels like pure energy running through my veins.

Hello, salix11. Maybe some maintenance therapy would help? Did you have the insomnia before your life started taking off in a positive direction? Maybe some stress and anxiety about the changes going on?

[embracinglife]

salix...are you taking any meds that might be causing this? maybe you should go back and see your psych or pdoc and talk about medicine changes so that you can sleep. insomnia can cause our brains to do weird things.

[lavieenrose]

I know nothing about you, but just tossing out that mania sometimes takes the form of extreme irritability, insomnia, and high energy, rather than a euphoria.