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anemone

Updated 10mo ago

Feeling Good After Mania

Talked to a therapist yesterday. She asked about mania and how long it had been since my last episode. I told her I don't have them often and I didn't remember when the last one was because it had been awhile. Today, woke up and cleaned the house for 7 hours straight. I feel invincible. Mania feels GOOD and I LIKE IT after being so deeply depressed for so long recently, plus it was amazing to get so much done. Basically, Hello I Feel Good

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Kiwipie29

2y

hey ! when i have a mania i literally get SO much done. it's ridiculous. haven't been able to text my therapist back, or call my psychiatrist in like 3 months. started lamotrogine and increased my zoloft and basically went a little bit crazy. finally messaged my therapist today !šŸ¤Ÿ but due to mania i have also done some crazy crazy stuff. so thankful for my natural pain med.šŸƒ
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anemone

2y

ive never had mania and thc at the same time, so it was exciting to try ::] i also got to be in the rain. ive mostly not done anything crazy... but i guess "started a business and spent $3000 on it" is a bit much it's always great when i get a mood swing high and can do things, but the mania do things is almost too much. one time i spent... 22?? hours straight? cleaning my house including hands and knees scrubbing the floor with a brush. (i got paid like $300 for it and this was before i graduated high school so... worth??). another time i watched 50 episodes of an anime i had decided to watch in 2 days. i took breaks only to eat and briefly sleep
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Sylvia

2y

When I get manic it last about 5days or more
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poppyblue

2y

Sometimes I really miss my manic episodes, theyā€™re not as frequent as they used to be and it just feels amazing to be able to stay productive the whole day and actually feel GOOD
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Chesbro99

2y

Makes me feel like I'm the only one who gets really when I'm in hypo mania... I kinda like it because I'm happy. But I'm scared for my BF
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taconado

2y

Honestly there are some times where I didnā€™t even realize I was manic until after the fact. And trying to label my previous episodes got difficult over time. Was I manic when I was drinking more heavily? Or was that depression? Who knows. (Iā€™m a college student. I promise my drinking isnā€™t entirely a problem, but mostly a coping mechanism for intense coursework and stress) Iā€™ve been a lot more stable since Iā€™ve been on lamictal, and itā€™s been about three years now. Sometimes I miss my mania because I feel so unproductive these days. But my mania usually ended in a horrible crash, and towards the end of the episode I found myself irritable and making much more risky and stupid decisions. It had itā€™s positives and sometimes it felt like a superpower. But it also ended in a horrible crash, and I would fall into a horrible depression. For that reason I donā€™t miss it. Iā€™m happy to be baseline and struggle with productivity and other things like normal people do. But thatā€™s just my experience šŸ¤—
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anemone

2y

yup it seems like i did mine backwards - started with the worst depression ive had in years and ended the cycle with mania... i did have a crash but it was just me being tired from all the cleaning i did while manic. i used to take lamictal but it stopped working for me after awhile and all i was getting was nasty withdrawal symptoms any time i forgot to take it, so i stopped
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nocolonmom

2y

I thought I was the only one that missed them manic episodes of feeling great, cleaning like crazy and getting stuff done. I just didn't care for not able to sleep that night and then crash for 3 days. Don't get them as much since they put me on Lamictal and Lexapro

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