Super happy, talking a lot, my self asteem is really good right now. I think I’m annoying my parents. Thoughts/ideas flow easily. A little grandiose. Is this mania? Or just feel good for some reasons.
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Are you engaging in any risky behavior? If not, it might just be a good mood, or a bit of hypomania. Enjoy it while it lasts, and make good decisions!
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I’ve forgotten your diagnosis, is it schizo-affective? Have you had mood issues in the past?
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I feel like I have all the energy on the world. My parents can’t keep up with me, then again they never can. I’m 26 they’re 67 and 69. I’m very eclectic and a big time thinker, they’re more practical oriented. I go on rants of talking they’re sloooow and think slow. Despite me being on 3 meds that can slow you down, I’m still faster.
Schizoaffective but I question it. I think I’m schizoaffective depressive type but my doctor says bi polar type. Idk the past is too blurry for me to remember manic episodes. I didn’t have enough insight then to know if I was manic or not.
I agree with @cj9556 . Watch your decision making.
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Oh I didn’t even see her post. I’m making good decisions so far. Could be just a good mood or hypomania
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You definitely are starting to sound a bit manic now. Try to channel it into something useful. Get a jump start on your homework if you can, or clean your room. Maybe work out a bit. When I start to sound like you, I usually have to give my credit card to Fiancé, because I like to make wild purchases.
sounds like hypomania, for me i get, flight of ideas, talking too much, becoming very goofy/playful childlike, grandiose thinking/day dreaming, hypersexual etc.
I’m probably going to be shut down for saying this, but I think it’s great you feel great.
You’re doing really well staying sober and going to AA. You have uni to look forward to, you have a girl you like. All these things would make me feel on top of the world.
You’re also in a beautiful place right now staying with a family you love and you’ve rediscovered a love of reading fiction.
You’re even reading a book that has no movie made from it. I know you said you like reading fiction after you’ve seen the film.
Embrace the nice feeling. I think by making the decision to quite alcohol and going through with it and doing so well with it, you are attracting positive things and feelings to your life.
Maybe this is the new normal? I hope for your sake it is, I’d hate to see you crash from feeling so great. You deserve to feel good JJ! 
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Sounds like a bit of Hypomania, it might even be the Abilify (You are on Abilify right?)
It triggered some Hypomanic responses in me when I was on it.
Try to accomplish different things when you are feeling like this.
I love my Hypomanias 
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Hypo mania is bad.
Yes it sounds like hypo mania.
My sister has bipolar and her hypo became full blown a couple times. Hospitalized. Not good.
I have an energetic and achievement oriented personality, but many mistake compensatory achievement done to raise low self worth to be manic motivation.
If I felt like I didn’t need to stay productive and do everything perfectly well, it would mean I would be unaware of my flawed personality which one would do well to find motivation in the challenge of putting to use to its full potential.
All high achievers have a need, a motive for achievement. It is a state of dissatisfaction by default which breeds motivation for change.
Hypo mania is when you feel good for no reason.
Motivation is when you feel like ■■■■ and are empowered to change yourself and your environment. Think of the most “motivated” people and then ask where they come from and what the alternatives to their achievements are.
For me, it was “probably dead by suicide”, by a clinician’s judgement.
Perhaps people who do so well actually feel like crap and are being defiant of the idea of feeling like crap forever. At least, some people. Not everyone.
Unless you have that much to explain as to your level of energy, it’s diseased.
Manic my homie watch what you allow yourself to do and say…its a tricky beast you cant feel too good…or too low gotta find the center…
I left my cell phone at home to charge, we went out to dinner I made everyone laugh a lot. I took a klonopin before hand which helped a little to calm me down though.
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Thanks @anon84763962. Your post means a lot. My parents drank at dinner. I said “sip faster mom what the hell is wrong with you”. Non alcoholics lol and their tiny sips, leaving a half of glass of wine to waste… I used to chug that stuff. I’m still a bit excited but not in danger or anything.
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I think hypomania at a lesser degree is quite helpful. You just have to learn to harness it and be productive with it.
But if you end up coming up with outlandish ideas that may seem amazing to you at the time that cost money, sit on that idea for 3 or 4 weeks and then see if it is still good.
Impulse control is what I had to really work on and still do.
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