What does it feel like to be in the Manic part of Bipolar Disorder?

Question

I realize a lot of you probably don't have BP and haven't experienced that, in which case a list of symptoms or something would be great. But I really want a discription of someone who has BP themselves. If you're ok with sharing, would you tell me what it feels like? Do you realize you're manic? what triggers it and how long does it last for you?

Answer 1

It feels f*cking awesome!

Answer 2

Stages of Bipolar disorder:



Mania



Hypomania (featuring mainly euphoria), severe mania (including euphoria, grandiosity, sexual drive, irritability, volatility, psychosis, paranoia, and aggression), extreme mania (most of the displeasures, hardly any of the pleasures), and two forms of mixed mania (where depressive and manic symptoms collide). In the manic phase, it varies a great deal, and everyone acts differently when experiencing this phase. Like extreme optimism or high-self esteem, extremely agressive and talk non-stop while feeling agitated.



Hypomania



Hypomania is not necessarily a pathology, especially if not part of a cycle of mania or depression. Patients rarely, if ever, seek out a psychiatrist complaining of hypomania. Many hypomanic patients have symptoms of irritability (classic "road rage" cases). Most people feel very euphoric and invincible, as if you can conquer the world.



Bipolar depression



People with bipolar disorder are depressed far more often than they are manic. Bipolar patients spend three times more days in depression than they do in mania.

persistent feeling of sadness, helplessness or worthlessness. You may display irritability. You may experience extreme changes, from being ravenous to having a total lack of interest in food. You can feel as if you do not want to get out of bed and face life, and yet falling asleep and staying asleep are extremely difficult. Sometimes even resulting in Insomnia.



Cognition



Numerous studies show that bipolar disorder affects a patient's ability to think and perform mental tasks, even in states of remission.



Sometimes you don't notice it unless you really pay attention to yourself all the time. After which it feels almost normal for you, but you know you can't stop being angry for some reason. Being touched, even a simple hug just gets at me for example.

Answer 3

on the beginning up or in hypomania particular it feels like the 1st answerer suggested. you have a brilliant labido numerous capability you're super rapid witted. you experience the would desire to bypass bypass bypass. you do no longer prefer to or cant sit down nevertheless. you could sparkling your place good to backside get all your paintings executed a week or 2 in develop etc. Have the middle to bypass notice on your dream interest.you experience such as you're an considerable person. as quickly as you start to realize finished blown mania issues get out of hand. Your rapid wit will become too rapid. Your strategies on your strategies race so quickly its like listening to music on quickly forward. So quickly you won't be able of even end 0.5 a concept or concept because of the fact your onto the subsequent one/ Many initiatives are began very with out postpone and dropped very with out postpone. you won't be able of end thinking. you will stay unsleeping at night thinking. finally you will experience as in case you're superhuman no longer merely a good human. you will experience as in case you do no longer prefer sleep and not sleep for days indulging your self in those speedy strategies and strategies.the arrogance will become rediculous and you're able to start to experience grandious as in case you're properly-enjoyed going to be properly-enjoyed have super powers or maybe are god like. Your now no longer effective. Your merely scattered and fidgety. Your strategies grow to be disconnected and once you communicate you communicate so quickly it comes out disjointed and speedy making little experience. human beings at this degree can start to have dellusions. And from the exterior they'd appear like a meth addict. Fidgety speaking as we communicate approximately issues that make little experience in any respect. It now no longer feels good in any respect at this factor and hospitilzation is needed.

Answer 4

See below for a description of when I am manic. I do not always know I am manic.... sometimes I just think that I am finally happy and enjoying life........ for me it usually lasts for up to 6 months unless I medicate it.



Everyone has moods like those of Bipolar Disorder....... because everyone has mood swings, momentary loss of judgment, likes to go shopping, likes sex, feels down sometimes, gets angry now and then and is hyper on occasion. The difference is that all of these symptoms in Bipolar are so intense that they interfere with your ability to function. Think of a pole (biPOLEr) with 0 at the center (0 being normal) and 10 at one end (manic) and -10 at the other (deep depression). Most people have swings but stay within 3 to -3. I have fairly severe Bipolar 1 but since my psychosis is mild I go from -9 to 9.... Also depression that comes and goes is not bipolar but just recurring depression, you have to have mania for it to be Bipolar..... you have to go to both ends of the pole.



Rapidly changing emotions or becoming angry or sad easily is not all there is to Bipolar. That is just having emotions. People with Bipolar Disorder do not just change emotions quickly, they go through periods of depression followed by periods of mania or elevated mood. Mood affects everything about you.... your energy level, self esteem, sleep patterns, appetite, sexuality, emotional response, judgment, etc..... not just your emotions. And while rapid cycling is possible, it is rare. The average person with Bipolar only cycles two or three times a year. It is considered rapid cycling if they cycle 4 or more times in a year.



While everyone with Bipolar has a different set of symptoms and a different severity of symptoms, this is what Bipolar is like for me:



Depression - too tired to get out of bed, shower, even to brush my teeth. Cry all the time, sleep 16 hours a day. Feelings of self loathing and guilt that drive me to think of suicide but I'm to tired to even think about how to go about killing myself. It makes you feel small and worthless and completely insignificant. It makes you think about how big the world is and how meaningless you are in it..... and it refuses to let you have any good thoughts or see any good things.... when you look in the mirror all you see is pain, you don't even see yourself, you don't taste your favorite foods anymore, see that flowers are blooming, whether or not the sun is out, you become so inward that you hardly even notice your surroundings..... You don't even feel love for people anymore.... positive thoughts are just not possible...... it is a deep dark hole with no way out and no light for hope.... and most of all it makes you feel sooooo alone. And even if there were someone who cared about you they would be better off if you killed yourself....... because all you will ever be is a burden....... this can last from a couple of weeks to a couple of years.



Mania - Way too happy! PARTY GIRL! love drink and drugs. Talk really fast and pressured because my thoughts are going faster than my mouth can keep up with. Hypersexual - like I sleep with strangers and guys I just met on the internet or I masturbate 10 times a day. I once became bisexual because there were twice as many people to sleep with. down load porn and spend tons of money on sex toys. Spending sprees..... I once spent my mortgage money on african violets, yep, $1500 on African violets (then I got depressed and let them all die). Quit my job because I wanted my vacation pay for lottery tickets and I was so convinced I would win that I started shopping and writing bad checks because I'd be rich as soon as the numbers were drawn. Decided that I could replace the furnace in my home by myself... I mean how hard can it be..... Only sleep 2 or maybe 3 hours a night for months on end and never feel tired. In the end I was unemployed, $30,000 in debt, and had almost lost my home, which needed a new furnace because I had removed the old one.. or parts of it anyway. This can last for months.



I also have mixed states when I am depressed and manic at the same time which are truly the worst... By body and mind are depressed but there is this undercurrent of energy running all the time..... I'm highly emotional but the emotions tend to be negative (guilt and anger) I have intrusive thoughts and urges to mutilate myself (like wanting to stick my hands in the garbage disposal or cooking them on the BBQ), and I also have psychotic episodes where I hallucinate. This is when I am most suseptible to suicide because I am depressed, wanting to hurt myself, and I have the mental energy to plan and carry it out.

Answer 5

like your on cocaine. your happy and energetic...but the crash for me is usually really bad. i get moody, anxious, and, tired. the Manic part is kinda crazy....im not bipolar but im manic depressive.