How do you know when your manic? Saw my psych provider today and she said I was manic I just don’t feel manic though. Can someone give me some insight into what it feels like?
4 Likes
Usually I feel revved up - thinking faster, talking more - jumping from one topic to another.
Feeling great or I can feel irritable and angry if I’m feeling mixed.
When I’m in full blown mania I become delusional and paranoid.
4 Likes
I do not officially have bipolar.
But unofficially I seem to have hypomania. I’m either superhappy and talking to everyone and making beautiful plans for my life. A billion of them. At the same time. They are not as unrealistic as in mania, as I have understood. It’s not “I am Jesus and I will save the world” for me. But rather planning a nice career, when in actuality I struggle to do the dishes.
Or. I’m feeling very uncomfortable. My thoughts are racing, I’m feeling nervous and stressed, I’m not sure what to do with myself. Like you just had 10 cups of coffee, and now you are restrained and can’t express all that energy.
Would it help to just ask her why she thinks so? What she hears and sees in you?
4 Likes
Yeah I might ask next time I see her.
2 Likes
The term mania has been around for centuries. It is often used to depict a person who is vulnerable to altered perceptions based on spectrums of emotion. I often have wondered at the cause of my manic breakdown that led to my chronic disability. I see the signs of isolation, the signs of euphoric reverie, split-self of self, creating my own fantasy world–that later comes true as the world seemingly unravels into a multi-fictional universe. “Sometimes I think like Shakespeare, a million stars shaking across the stratosphere” = an example of something a manic person might think or say…I cant even control it actually—I would say Mania leans more toward the spiritual than the psychological. Meaning schizophrenia is more MIND than matter.
3 Likes
Maybe it’s “wrong” to say so, but I LOVE when I’m manic. I’m an idea machine, and it can drown out the voices that prevent me from creating. In fact, I’m the opposite and get lots of stuff done.
5 Likes
If its hypomania (lesser form of mania)
Then Maybe your talking really fast or jumbled. Grandiose ideas. Flight of ideas, Hyper exciteable.
4 Likes
I usually have hypomania. I’m just a lot more productive and very optimistic.
During more serious manic episodes, I can’t stop doing things. I become productive to tge point of and past exhaustion. For example, I found myself organizing my baking and spice cabinets at 1 am because I couldn’t stop obsessing over my kitchen.
I also engaged in some risky behavior because I felt invincible.
5 Likes
An example of hypomania from my life is the years when I stayed up all night pounding out new pieces on my piano. And doing that almost every week for eight years when I suddenly quit one night in complete exhaustion after producing three albums.
2 Likes
I volunteer at a farm where they also help people with MI. One of the ladies was manic. She was very enthusiast, joyful, talkative, energetic. I am invited to come with her to dancing. She gave a long speech about her whole life, during the lunch, hugging one of the employees, telling us all sorts of private things. It was the first time I met her. She also complained of not being able to sleep at night.
She seemed a very sweet lady, but also she was manic. This is what it looked from the outside.
1 Like
My manic episodes start off with super energy spikes. Then I become angry at the world as the mania continues, then something happens and I get depressed. Usually about this time, the pdoc changes my meds.
1 Like
I can feel when I’m hypomanic, it feels like lots of caffeine. What lots of people have said, talkative, more energy, creative, bouncing off the walls and in general it’s nice.
When I’m manic I guess I would be the last to know, no insight, lots of bad behavior, poor judgement, risky choices, little or no sleep, crazy thoughts and ideas that seem right to me, Not connecting to people. flights of fancy. Anger. Spending. Drugs and alcohol.
This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.