whats it like, the manic state of bipolar…are you mad or high or what
I just want to find out as im planning to go back to college to learn psychiatric nursing
I have high mania without meds…being manic is like being high all the time…I have to watch what I say a lot more when manic…but yea I feel insane and high…
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I’m a sz but have experienced mania. It is like seeing everything new and quickly. Your brain is racing and everyone is in slow motion. You can do anything! You feel invincible and there are no consequences.
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I agree well put…
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It’s like every idea you have is the best, most life-changing idea ever, and you can’t figure out why everyone else seems too slow to understand. Also, lots and lots of sex. Or masturbation. And you never sleep, but you don’t feel tired.
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I had drug induced mania and I almost never slept but still felt energetic (interestingly enough when it was over my apartment looked trashed because I had not taken good care of it), wrote some of the worst crap I ever wrote (I made a jackass out of myself), was angry a lot, took risks, spent too much money (I’m normally a tightwad), talked to women without any fear and flirted with them as well which is something I never did previously or since (I imagine if it continued I may have had sex with one eventually but i know better now), talked constantly, and wrote constantly. I’m glad it’s over now.
My mania has always been closer to manic depression that just ‘pure high’ feeling. I was self destructive and neurotic…kinda get that attention seeking syndrome… Lots of uncontrollable speaking… I start excessive cleaning…or socializing…
everything just beyond the normal.
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Hmm to be honest going un medicated for so long…and being manic for so long…its such a severe change to be on meds it’s hard for me to accept non manic state of being…I’m working on it…
I think I had a brief episode that may qualify as mania… Though my diagnosis is PSZ, I wouldn’t know what else to call it. For me, it appeared as if everyone was friendly, girls smiling at me, seeing the beauty in everything. Like being in love can be. I recall standing in front of the mirror and touching my face and being amazed by the sensation. Must have looked silly. I also stayed awake way too long. But it was too good… the crash was very tough.
For me I felt like I could do anything like I had superpowers. I talked really fast and walked really fast.
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Yeah, I’ve never had a pure mania, but I’ve had agitated depression and dysphoria - tons of energy, mind can’t stop for a moment, everything in the world is awful.
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Mania is a state of euphoria. You talk fast, racing thoughts, start multiple projects you can’t finish, buying stuff from multiple stores on impulse and not stopping until you are completely broke. Your always right even though in reality you are wrong and you don’t notice it until you reach depression. Buying expensive things that you don’t need just to say that you have them. Ego centric. And you do everything fast including driving.
Source: My dad is bi-polar.
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