I know that mania is a symptom of mood disorder only so most schizophrenics will not experience this but who has?
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Schizoaffective bipolar type people have
Such as myself!
Everyone can experience mania I guess 
but it’s only clinical if you’re diagnosed with a bipolar condition I think
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I get it off meds, can drive you around the bend. Brain just races till you act on it or finally get sleep
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I had hypomania once because of geodon it was pretty wild. I’d say 80% of it was amazing and positive. The rest was me causing unnecessary drama and being very moody which is highly uncharacteristic of me and me spending hundreds of dollars because I was like WHY NOT WOOO
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I’m from the country RO-MANIA so we all have mania here 
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many times, never knew it was mania till I got my diagnose. I think my 1st one was when I was 14
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I am also sza. I was bipolar first. I used to love the mania. Now I know it’s what ruined my life more than depression because of all the awful choices I made.
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I get it when I’m not medicated. Usually just hypomania but I can still do some damage. I usually get mixed episodes so I can never really get to high before I crash again and my mania is exhausted by agitation. I run my mouth and storm around until I peter out. But I’ve had times where I spend a lot, either shopping or gambling. I require little to no sleep to get by, I drug seek for uppers like meth or cocaine (mind you I don’t do those drugs) Of course there are times when I just decide I’m going to open a catering business and stay up all night baking cakes. Or one time I decided I wanted to move so I made everyone stay up and pack up their belongings to get ready to move. Plenty of times I decided to go out of town to go shopping in the middle of the night because we don’t have any stores open in out town at night. I’ve even gone during a snowstorm. It’s like your heart comes before you head. Not a good thing.
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Hahaha the “why not!!!” question is one I’ve asked myself over and over. It’s funny to look back but it’s not fun wen you’re living it and watching yourself blow all our savings or ruin relationship.
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My life has been the same
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I laughed so hard at this. Hahaha thank you
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Yep that took a good chunk out of my savings it was painful paying it all off later (I used a credit card 
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On the plus side, I now have all this cool stuff lol. Can’t say I would’ve ever had 400 dollar headphones without that experience 
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I still don’t know until I’m like IN IT. But I’m picking up on it much better. Like oh yes I wouldn’t have done that before. You really can become a completely different person
Your heart comes before your head.
Welp. That is the best description of mania I’ve ever heard.
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Hahaha bet they’re great headphone!
I planned a 16k wedding in 7 weeks last year with little to NO savings and somehow managed to pay it all without credit. Sometimes being manic is amazing because you can become this superhuman that finds a way to get exactly what you think you want. When I’m depressed I’m broke as a joke and can’t afford toilet paper.
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We will always have our experiences I suppose. I just wish I wasn’t so ashamed of most of them. To think I will have to take half of my life choices to the grave with me. I wish I could just shout it all out and heal.
Yes that was the best part. I’d been more or less disabled for years, minimal ability to concentrate/focus, couldn’t keep up w basic hygiene, no motivation ever, etc and suddenly it was like I was doing 50 bajillion things at once, I was exercising regularly, all my hygiene was excellent, I was COOKING 3 meals a day for myself ((wow)) apartment was clean, I was studying and getting great grades, I was teaching myself new languages and reading books and playing videogames (all of which I’d barely touched in years), I could watch movies again I mean wow it was amazing. I felt like I was making up for lost time. There was so much I wanted to do sleeping felt like a waste of time. I just stayed up all night.
If I hadn’t been on geodon I probably would’ve went into a fullblown psychotic episode due to that. Had a nasty flare up of symptoms-paranoia, hallucinations-but I never lost insight.
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Last time I was manic was 2 years ago thought they all wanted me bankrupt so I charged a whole bunch, will be paying that off for a long time to come
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maybe in therapy you can get some of it out, just a thought. But somethings are just too awful to ever say out loud, we just want to forget.
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It’s seems so great when it happens and I remember the very first time I was being told I was manic I said well I want to stay like this. The crisis counsellor said to me every single manic episode has a bad depression follow and it’s worse every time. 8 years later I can tell you he wasn’t joking. Depression is debilitating. Have you read any of Marya hornbachers memoirs on mania or depression? Madness is a great book.