How do you know when your manic

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I can’t seem to tell but lately all I seem to be doing is focusing all my energy on a hobby I just got into. I am so exhausted.

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My mind never shuts up for more than 5 seconds and my thoughts bounce around to random things.

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My mind runs continuously so I can’t sleep and I engage in “retail therapy” with money that I don’t have…

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Oh believe me you’ll know

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I sometimes wonder whether investing all my time on hobbies is a manic symptom. I spent three days creating a Coloring book. Most of the time I’m not interested in anything. That’s why I can’t tell.

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It may be a bit of hypomanic behavior but it also sounds obsessive which could be a different issue

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I get obsessed with things and get bored within a couple of weeks.

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I get obsessed a lot but I also have OCD

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I think we share a lot of the symptoms and our docs are always confused. No wonder why we are confused too.

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Being obsessed could be part of mania as well

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I feel like the happiest i’ve ever been and talk a lot, laugh a lot, than pure rage out of nowhere also occasional visions.

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I’m not sure I’m happy but I have a lot of energy to do things and none at the same time.

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Oh yeah, I relate to you and Wave cause my diagnosis is kind of ambigious too.

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I get the manic rage too. I can end mania pretty quickly with Seroquel for a few days.

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Yeah, actually I only got hypomanic for a few years or at least the mania wasn’t as strong as that episode I had last year. But the first time I went pure manic I was already on risperidone so that calmed things a bit I guess. I think the mania just felt stronger because of the damn prozac.

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Never had that problem. But there is always tomorrow.

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Not true @Wave, I never know when I’m manic if no one tells me.

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Yeah that is lack of insight
This can happen too

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Euphoria, constantly active, not sleeping, talking all the time, frequently angry, but having a feeling that something is wrong. (Actually in my case when I was on Latuda it was called severe anxiety which technically was correct but it mimicked it enough to where I can partially understand it.)

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When I’m manic, my brain is buzzing with what I need to do, and forming lots of crazy connections that seem insignificant to a norm. I have all of a sudden got lots of adrenaline type of energy, but also internally exhausted at same time

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