I feel like I have personality changes due to mania

Hey, I hope that everything is alright. I am sorry for the way I behaved for 4 days. I know right from wrong, but can’t appreciate the consequences of my actions, because I recently suffered from transient hallucinations and delusions for not sleeping enough. I also started to have personality changes, due to not getting enough sleep, and kind of stopped having empathy and remorse, and started to have irritability, because of that.

I just need help to calm down. I am sorry!

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Have you tried meditation. Its good for slowing the thoughts. if you struggle with racing thoughts maybe its for you.

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Yesterday I did not sleep during the night and went about my business the next morning until noon. Something just feels wrong about it. Usually its fresh during the morning but I did not feel fresh and my perception was different and my inertia was different.

I just did it once but when you do it a couple of days in a row I am not sure about the changes. If you push through the tiredness and manage to stay awake you still have more inertia and longer reaction times iirc. Sometimes I would just sit down sleep depraved and fall asleep immediately but wake up 1 hour later and be on the go again - falling asleep in the train, dreaming, falling asleep in the rain, falling asleep on the bench sitting

Do you know if humans can sleep standing and keep their balance?

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I did not know, tell me more about it.

R U bi polar? I am and I don’t like what my stabilizer did to me. My pdoc just took me off my mood stabilizer and didn’t put me on a new one, cancelled our appointment tomorrow until the end of June so I’m not going to feel overly responsible and enjoy feeling the manic high. It’s better than being flat but I know from experience it can cause psychosis after awhile and feels bad.

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I have Bipolar 1 Disorder.

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No. I have the diagnosis ‘Catatonic Schizophrenia’: F20.2

You said you did not sleep enough. So you must know how it feels not having slept.

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For those worried about the Lao Tzu quote. He is not a Buddhist. He was a Chinese philosopher.

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I read on a dutch psychosis community site that meditation can trigger psychosis, they recomand mindfulness

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It does for me. Very badly.

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You’ve been apologizing for a month. I still don’t know what you did wrong.

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Sz changed my personality but meds fixed it.

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