I think I’m in a mixed episode, for about a week, but I’m not sure. Can hypomania cause restlessness so bad that you can’t sit still and your feet feel like they’re full of so much energy, you just wish you could chop them off? I mean, not seriously, but GOODNESS GRIEF, my feet are driving me CRAZY. Pacing helps, but only a little and only briefly.
Any advice?
Yep, hypomania can definitely do that… are you on a mood stabiliser? If not that might help, otherwise if you have something like diazepam that might calm you down a bit. A bath can also be relaxing if you can manage that. Hope you feel better soon.
(Also it could be restless legs cause by an antipsychotic? Either way I’d speak to your psych as soon as possible in case it becomes more severe)
Thank you for your reply. I think a bath would definitely help. I’m currently on Latuda. I think I was hypomanic a few weeks ago. I had a million ideas of what I wanted to paint, I wanted to clean everything, and I was very confident and hypersexual. I don’t feel like that anymore, though, I just feel insanely anxious and on edge - I keep getting super angry and WAY too worked up about the stupidest things. So IDK if the hypomania is really over, or if it’s just transitioned into anxious energy.
I’ll definitely mention this to my doctor.
Could be mixed episode, if you have bipolar I’d recomend lithium. Nothing stoped my mixed episodes until I got on it, and they were trrrible , now I generally feel good
I was restless for a long time. It got so bad that I had trouble falling and staying asleep. Eventually I figured that I might need cogentin(benztropine). It’s what they give you for akathisia or internal restlessness. I slept through the entire night the first day I started taking it. The crazy thing is that after I took it, I noticed that my muscles were sore from tensing up all the time.
Akathisia from antipsychotics can also cause that. My akathisia on latuda was so bad it made me suicidal.
Thanks for the replies, everyone. 
@Moonwalker: I was put on Lithium once when I was in the hospital. It helped tremendously. My doctor doesn’t want me on it again, though, because I have a lot of other health problems.
I find hypomania can manifest as a very unpleasant and irritable energy as well as the ‘nice’ hypomania where you feel superhuman, it does sound like a mixed episode with the irritability and anxiety, I’m glad you are going to speak to your doctor, hopefully he/she can prescribe something to control this. Best wishes.
Thank you, Turquoise. I am wondering if it’s a mixed episode, too.
It’s very hard to describe unless I’m experiencing it but I’ll try. I get this inner restlessness, and I avoid staying in places too long because the I can’t sit in one place … need to move move move. . It often feels like too much is going on in my head. As if the whole world is one my shoulders. it feels so uncomfortable and like you can’t stay still in one place.
Racing thoughts and restlessness are definately signs of hypo/mania