I go from lacking motivation to drink water to making phone calls to start my own company. Right now I feel like breaking down and crying cause I’m swimming in self pity
I get exactly like this about once a month, for about 4 days. I get really motivated, i start reorganising closets, buying new clothes, planning a whole new future for myself, i do skincare and haircare, but it’s only because i have a constant need for every little detail to be perfect during these days. So i’m hyperactive and stressed and the only thing i can think about is how i don’t have a colour coordinated system for my clothes or something like that. i also get extremely confident and think i’m so hot, cool, etc and if someone disagrees that’s their problem. i almost get euphoric, but hyperactive at the same time. i also barely sleep, i stay up all night looking for clothes so i can look successful or reorganising my closet for 5 hours without a single break to even think. i described it as being in some kind of manic state so when it started getting worse i looked it up. it’s definitely not my personality bc it’s only been this way for maybe 5 months. hope someone can relate or tell me what is happening to me :)
OMG SAME!!! My dr diagnosed me with brand new hypomanic episode. Apparently I let it go on so long, thinking it was just worsening ADHD. So I accidentally let it get really really bad, almost to the point of hallucinations. So in that token, I truly presented as having a full blown manic episode (one that someone with a bipolar 1 dx “diagnosis” would have, with possible hallucinations and full blown psychosis). But we think it’s bipolar 2 with hypomania. Literally everything in your comment is also me to a T, but also with hyper sexual and high risk behaviors. I’m so glad I caught it before I spent all my money or hurt someone! Myself included! Stay strong friend, and get a good doctor you can be honest with! There’s a light at the end of our tunnel :)
Increased Energy More impulsive Elevated Mood, Mood Swings, Irritability Increased Productivity Distractibility Increased confidence Racing thoughts Decreased need for sleep, can end up in napping during the day when it catches up Speaking Faster/Rapid Speech
This happens to me pretty often but irregularly. It never lasts 4 days, usually 1 or 2, sometimes bleeding into the third day when i usually pass out from exhaustion during the day and enter the flipside of the coin when i wake up. I speak faster, it feels like my heart beats faster, my brain is juggling like 10 different thought streams at once effortlessly, i go from task to task rapidly often trying to do multiple at once/alternating (for example math homework and working out alternating). Everything looks sharper and more vibrant, music sounds AMAZING, food tastes great but i feel like eating is optional, if i try to resist doing anything i get super anxious and start to fidget and have slight muscle jitter. Motivation goes through the roof, i feel like i could do anything, be anyone i wanted because i finally have the drive for it, i constantly feel the need to try and prolong this feeling by making my body try to keep up with caffeine and taking small 30 minute naps. I sleep for usually 2-5 hours a night during these but not always at nighttime since sleep patterns get irregular. When i wake up even after 2 hours it feels like the best sleep i have ever had and even if i try, sleeping more after waking up is impossible. I get super social and want to call/talk to friends and family even at weird times (eg. 4am) and when talking to people they notice me talking fast. I notice myself getting slightly irritated when they don't fully believe something revolutionary ive just thought of (usually just some nonsense). Most importantly i feel incredibly motivated and driven, super overconfident in anything i do almost invincible.
I get into educated discussions(most usually one sided) and feel like I think more clearly whilst hypomanic, It really feels like I'm me at last, my whole personality was built in days like these in which I'd get ideas which helped me understand the universe better, I've always loved learning and spending nights reading about black holes, exercising my brain in every way possible It really feels like an exaggeration of that personality trait of mine rather than a symptom. If I were rich enough to pay for canvasses, the tools to make my mechatronics inventions, or just had any starting money, I could make something that'd make me be considered a genius and I know it. I highly doubt that Leonardo da Vinci was able to do everything he did without frequent hypomania, he rather famously slept only 2 hours a day in 6 x 20min naps, worked on paintings, inventions, studied the human body, made the most famous illustrations ever and still had time, motivation and cognitive capabilities to do more work on other fields, it's truly a chance to marvel at the efficiency potential of the human mind when one can actually keep up and manage one's hypomania. Being calm about it, remembering to breathe and stop, meditation and constantly being anchored again to reality helps, but there's only so much under our control and it is very scary indeed when complexity turns into nonsensical noise and reality bends
this has happened but not for 4 days. about one or two at the most before I go back to being depressed, very angry, or basically normal. its kinda weird and idk if its depression or bipolar presenting itself weird
Same, my friends think I have BPII (especially one of them who’s best friend has it and apparently acts exactly like me) but bc I don’t have as extreme symptomsa and it doesn’t last as long I keep brushing it off 🥲
@@camtheunicorpse2217 whale since i wrote this comment i’ve been tracking my mood every day at least twice a day and it finally happened. u might wanna try tracking ur symptoms each day until u get it for at least four days. u could also have cyclothymia (idk if i spelled that right lol) but im not an expert, nor am i diagnosing anyone with anything. either way, good luck 👍
I feel like I have all 10 symptoms constantly for the last 25 years. Always hyper focused on something and I get moody and irritated when distracted. When the mania period is over I can’t get any interest anymore.
I just got told on my first visit to my psychiatrist that he thought I lived in a almost constant state of hypomania. And that was why I hadn't noticed that I'm probably bipolar.
@@jorilysmatos69 be grateful if you feel hypomania that much. youre creative you can be yourself when youre in this episode you can achieve everything. depression sucks
i cant remember how long it lasted but when i was in this state once. Rlly focused, dismissive of others and sometimes my own mental health. Yeah, i think its the reason i dnt have many friends currently. I didn't realise it was hypermania. What i hate most about it is that i often argue, people say i need a break so i would have screamed at them. Even worse when i get stressed either. I once told a guy who said he loved me that he was mentally ill bc i thought he was a distraction. i apologised and said it was actually me who was mentally ill. Yeah he hated me, maybe still does. One thing that stopped this was when i developed OCD, towards the end of my recovery and acceptance from my OCD i noticed i didnt feel as driven. Turns out, this was me no longer suffering from in hypermania. I am also rebuilding new friendships and working on being more empathetic and putting myself in others shoes. Who else thought they were a sociopath or physcopath will suffering from this
I have bipolar 1 with psychosis. I take 3 anti-mania medication (Depakote 2000mg, Trevicta injection 263mg and olanzapine 10mg) I still get periods of hypomania. I only take 25mg of sertralin, I can't be completely off from it cause I may have a depressive episode but it was reduced from 50mg. Clozapine made me fat and made my eyes move uncontrollably, quetiapine was meh, didn't help for sleep and mania and now this I hope it will be fine with a higher dose.
I don't sleep at all, man I'm in hyponania I've already taken 3 zolpidem and 20 drops of rivotril and nothing I think I'm going to spend the night in white anyway The doctor gave me Lamotrigine 2x a day at 25mg, increase it little by little, but this effect takes a while I think I'll spend sleepless nights or use Rohydorm, which is the most sedative there is
My hypomanic states can run for good periods of time… I mostly have a bouncy happy mood and am very convivial and joyeous mood… I have best best creative ideas and problem solving periods here… I am full of energy and bounce.. I can work 22 hours straight and only sleep those 2 hours and after a shower and coffee I’m off again…. Productivity is through the roof… I can drag people along on night outs and get some Guinness and single malts down me and I’m a naughty devil but such great fun as it releases my INTP introversion… The dark side is I get angry, very angry and snap at everyone and I can be horribly nasty and cutting and get right down into persons soul… I can be incredibly passive-aggressive and nasty. I also hit the “crazy idea” so like the Tupe 1 and 2’s I get mad ideas and then go on a spending spree and instantly regret it… So this runs for days or a week or two and then comes the eythemic period where I’m still awesome but stable and then comes the 2 week black dogs… this is where I struggle with decisions and rations ones at that.. All this for me is bound by an arch of 5 years before a major depression breakdown…. Where I retreat so much into myself it’s hard for me to be centred as I normally am and able to talk to friends and family deeply… This cycle has just killed a very precious romantic relationship that should have lasted…. As this 5 years cycle also coencided with the breakup.. I don’t blame anyone but I wish I had known about Cyclothymia in 2017/2012 as I could have spotted the trends and done something earlier… Oh and I try to do all I can to keep the highs (sugar, coffee alcohol at time but I don’t like getting drunk to often) So meds are a difficult one for me… If I can take the edge off the high hypomanic and loose the low then I’m good …
I have hypomania without bipolar and I am always so energetic, my speech is fast and loud + I talk about so many things at the same time and I feel so happy 90% of the time. For other people it's quite weird. Actually, when I watch myself in a video, I feel weird too. Because it makes me notice that I am physically active all the time 😂 I double up people's energy when I am around them, but in a group of people, they can get tired of me so quickly. Always cracking jokes, always hyped up energy, always talking about something new, doing something funny and risky... 🤷♀️ I always get asked why I am always smiling. 😂 some people think I am faking it to be nice, but I can't even control it, I am feeling happy, so I smile automatically. 😂😂😂 I am writing this at 7 AM lmao 😂😂😂 this is my tired version talking 👄 😂
I've been told by my buddy she notice what she suspects is an oncoming episode from me she notice that I start blinking multiple times in a rapid manner. Has anyone else experienced rapid blinking like that?
I get to episodes of almost attention seeking, engage a conversation and somehow go into a long winded discussion about my past , then get into computers until i feel like a annoying chatterbox and seclude myself. I would even leave friend's houses to smoke to 'anchor' my mind. Writing fiction helps to focus that thought process to something people like.
My bipolar symptoms have lessened over the past 2 or 3 years but they now are or were more rapid cycling without going to full blown hypomania. I went off mood stabiliser for 3 months was fine then started with new therapist and I was all over the place for whole month went back on low dose of epillim and I leveled out for one month then had hypomania at lower level not with all the same symptoms as I used to get. This went on for a week and then I crashed for a week. I didn't realise I was hypomanic until I crashed. Now if I get just a bit to over excited I can have elevated mood without all the symptoms I used to get and twice I have had delusional thinking over past few months. My symptoms are so different now with hypomania I am having a hard time knowing it. Until I crash. Have you had patients experience this sort of thing?
Hi Suzy, our videos are for educational purposes and we can't provide personalised feedback, we think it's best to speak with your doctor to get the care and input you need.
Hello. Fellow bipolar II person here just to chime in. I also struggle to realise when I'm hypomanic until I crash, because I convince myself that I'm just happy or finally stable. Then I crash and it's so terrible!
Yes … hypo-mania or mania are cycles within the bipolar disorder diagnoses… some clinicians believe that there are three different types of bipolar disorders
I go from lacking motivation to drink water to making phone calls to start my own company. Right now I feel like breaking down and crying cause I’m swimming in self pity
Same and also I can stay up for days on end
@@peterstainer731 how else are you going to contact construction businesses?
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I get exactly like this about once a month, for about 4 days. I get really motivated, i start reorganising closets, buying new clothes, planning a whole new future for myself, i do skincare and haircare, but it’s only because i have a constant need for every little detail to be perfect during these days. So i’m hyperactive and stressed and the only thing i can think about is how i don’t have a colour coordinated system for my clothes or something like that. i also get extremely confident and think i’m so hot, cool, etc and if someone disagrees that’s their problem. i almost get euphoric, but hyperactive at the same time. i also barely sleep, i stay up all night looking for clothes so i can look successful or reorganising my closet for 5 hours without a single break to even think. i described it as being in some kind of manic state so when it started getting worse i looked it up. it’s definitely not my personality bc it’s only been this way for maybe 5 months. hope someone can relate or tell me what is happening to me :)
I do the same thing. I completely understand. You’re not alone
OMG SAME!!! My dr diagnosed me with brand new hypomanic episode. Apparently I let it go on so long, thinking it was just worsening ADHD. So I accidentally let it get really really bad, almost to the point of hallucinations. So in that token, I truly presented as having a full blown manic episode (one that someone with a bipolar 1 dx “diagnosis” would have, with possible hallucinations and full blown psychosis). But we think it’s bipolar 2 with hypomania. Literally everything in your comment is also me to a T, but also with hyper sexual and high risk behaviors. I’m so glad I caught it before I spent all my money or hurt someone! Myself included! Stay strong friend, and get a good doctor you can be honest with! There’s a light at the end of our tunnel :)
It happens once a month for 4 days like clockwork. That's a clue. There's a hormonal connection.
@@HealthWyzesame. I get like this before my period.
Increased Energy
More impulsive
Elevated Mood, Mood Swings, Irritability
Increased Productivity
Distractibility
Increased confidence
Racing thoughts
Decreased need for sleep, can end up in napping during the day when it catches up
Speaking Faster/Rapid Speech
I feel like 10,000lbs of explosive trapped in a tiny box
This happens to me pretty often but irregularly. It never lasts 4 days, usually 1 or 2, sometimes bleeding into the third day when i usually pass out from exhaustion during the day and enter the flipside of the coin when i wake up. I speak faster, it feels like my heart beats faster, my brain is juggling like 10 different thought streams at once effortlessly, i go from task to task rapidly often trying to do multiple at once/alternating (for example math homework and working out alternating). Everything looks sharper and more vibrant, music sounds AMAZING, food tastes great but i feel like eating is optional, if i try to resist doing anything i get super anxious and start to fidget and have slight muscle jitter. Motivation goes through the roof, i feel like i could do anything, be anyone i wanted because i finally have the drive for it, i constantly feel the need to try and prolong this feeling by making my body try to keep up with caffeine and taking small 30 minute naps. I sleep for usually 2-5 hours a night during these but not always at nighttime since sleep patterns get irregular. When i wake up even after 2 hours it feels like the best sleep i have ever had and even if i try, sleeping more after waking up is impossible. I get super social and want to call/talk to friends and family even at weird times (eg. 4am) and when talking to people they notice me talking fast. I notice myself getting slightly irritated when they don't fully believe something revolutionary ive just thought of (usually just some nonsense). Most importantly i feel incredibly motivated and driven, super overconfident in anything i do almost invincible.
I get into educated discussions(most usually one sided) and feel like I think more clearly whilst hypomanic, It really feels like I'm me at last, my whole personality was built in days like these in which I'd get ideas which helped me understand the universe better, I've always loved learning and spending nights reading about black holes, exercising my brain in every way possible
It really feels like an exaggeration of that personality trait of mine rather than a symptom.
If I were rich enough to pay for canvasses, the tools to make my mechatronics inventions, or just had any starting money, I could make something that'd make me be considered a genius and I know it.
I highly doubt that Leonardo da Vinci was able to do everything he did without frequent hypomania, he rather famously slept only 2 hours a day in 6 x 20min naps, worked on paintings, inventions, studied the human body, made the most famous illustrations ever and still had time, motivation and cognitive capabilities to do more work on other fields, it's truly a chance to marvel at the efficiency potential of the human mind when one can actually keep up and manage one's hypomania.
Being calm about it, remembering to breathe and stop, meditation and constantly being anchored again to reality helps, but there's only so much under our control and it is very scary indeed when complexity turns into nonsensical noise and reality bends
Same. I hope we can escape this purgatory.
Lol I feel the same way but only when im hypomanic
Excellent video
this has happened but not for 4 days. about one or two at the most before I go back to being depressed, very angry, or basically normal. its kinda weird and idk if its depression or bipolar presenting itself weird
Same, my friends think I have BPII (especially one of them who’s best friend has it and apparently acts exactly like me) but bc I don’t have as extreme symptomsa and it doesn’t last as long I keep brushing it off 🥲
@@camtheunicorpse2217 whale since i wrote this comment i’ve been tracking my mood every day at least twice a day and it finally happened. u might wanna try tracking ur symptoms each day until u get it for at least four days. u could also have cyclothymia (idk if i spelled that right lol) but im not an expert, nor am i diagnosing anyone with anything. either way, good luck 👍
I feel like I have all 10 symptoms constantly for the last 25 years. Always hyper focused on something and I get moody and irritated when distracted. When the mania period is over I can’t get any interest anymore.
I just got told on my first visit to my psychiatrist that he thought I lived in a almost constant state of hypomania. And that was why I hadn't noticed that I'm probably bipolar.
@@jorilysmatos69 be grateful if you feel hypomania that much. youre creative you can be yourself when youre in this episode you can achieve everything. depression sucks
I fucking hate it. I can’t switch off. I feel like I have caffeine in my veins.
i cant remember how long it lasted but when i was in this state once. Rlly focused, dismissive of others and sometimes my own mental health. Yeah, i think its the reason i dnt have many friends currently. I didn't realise it was hypermania. What i hate most about it is that i often argue, people say i need a break so i would have screamed at them. Even worse when i get stressed either. I once told a guy who said he loved me that he was mentally ill bc i thought he was a distraction. i apologised and said it was actually me who was mentally ill. Yeah he hated me, maybe still does. One thing that stopped this was when i developed OCD, towards the end of my recovery and acceptance from my OCD i noticed i didnt feel as driven. Turns out, this was me no longer suffering from in hypermania. I am also rebuilding new friendships and working on being more empathetic and putting myself in others shoes. Who else thought they were a sociopath or physcopath will suffering from this
I have bipolar 1 with psychosis. I take 3 anti-mania medication (Depakote 2000mg, Trevicta injection 263mg and olanzapine 10mg) I still get periods of hypomania. I only take 25mg of sertralin, I can't be completely off from it cause I may have a depressive episode but it was reduced from 50mg. Clozapine made me fat and made my eyes move uncontrollably, quetiapine was meh, didn't help for sleep and mania and now this I hope it will be fine with a higher dose.
I think this is just my personality I feel like it’s like 4 days on and 3 days off or something but even my days off feel slightly hypomanic lol
Thank you so much for your help, Good Doctor.
Being happy is being sick.. so, Freud was a cocaine addict and we have to follow his diagnoses: ridiculous
Lovely video! Will help with my history taking n knowing what questions to ask to illicit these signs
I don't sleep at all, man
I'm in hyponania I've already taken 3 zolpidem and 20 drops of rivotril and nothing
I think I'm going to spend the night in white anyway
The doctor gave me Lamotrigine 2x a day at 25mg, increase it little by little, but this effect takes a while
I think I'll spend sleepless nights or use Rohydorm, which is the most sedative there is
Thank you for this, it's been very helpful
Just described everyone at my past job.
My hypomanic states can run for good periods of time… I mostly have a bouncy happy mood and am very convivial and joyeous mood… I have best best creative ideas and problem solving periods here… I am full of energy and bounce.. I can work 22 hours straight and only sleep those 2 hours and after a shower and coffee I’m off again…. Productivity is through the roof… I can drag people along on night outs and get some Guinness and single malts down me and I’m a naughty devil but such great fun as it releases my INTP introversion…
The dark side is I get angry, very angry and snap at everyone and I can be horribly nasty and cutting and get right down into persons soul… I can be incredibly passive-aggressive and nasty. I also hit the “crazy idea” so like the Tupe 1 and 2’s I get mad ideas and then go on a spending spree and instantly regret it…
So this runs for days or a week or two and then comes the eythemic period where I’m still awesome but stable and then comes the 2 week black dogs… this is where I struggle with decisions and rations ones at that..
All this for me is bound by an arch of 5 years before a major depression breakdown…. Where I retreat so much into myself it’s hard for me to be centred as I normally am and able to talk to friends and family deeply…
This cycle has just killed a very precious romantic relationship that should have lasted…. As this 5 years cycle also coencided with the breakup..
I don’t blame anyone but I wish I had known about Cyclothymia in 2017/2012 as I could have spotted the trends and done something earlier…
Oh and I try to do all I can to keep the highs (sugar, coffee alcohol at time but I don’t like getting drunk to often)
So meds are a difficult one for me…
If I can take the edge off the high hypomanic and loose the low then I’m good …
Thank you so much.
I have hypomania without bipolar and I am always so energetic, my speech is fast and loud + I talk about so many things at the same time and I feel so happy 90% of the time. For other people it's quite weird. Actually, when I watch myself in a video, I feel weird too. Because it makes me notice that I am physically active all the time 😂
I double up people's energy when I am around them, but in a group of people, they can get tired of me so quickly. Always cracking jokes, always hyped up energy, always talking about something new, doing something funny and risky... 🤷♀️
I always get asked why I am always smiling. 😂 some people think I am faking it to be nice, but I can't even control it, I am feeling happy, so I smile automatically. 😂😂😂 I am writing this at 7 AM lmao 😂😂😂 this is my tired version talking 👄 😂
So you have ADHD?
Thank you 👌👌💐💐😊😊You are Bhartiya...Great
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How long does Hypomanic episode lasts?
At least 4 days
I had one that lasted a month and a half.
It's different for different people
Mine goes for like two months straight… it’s so exhausting 🥺
Me over here thinking this was all my ADHD but wondering if i have a bigger problem.
Hiii. My dr prescribed me limictal’ however it’s not helping. What else will help with hypomania? Thank you
Sorry but this sounds like it's simply identical to my ADHD symptoms.
Yes
i get in this state almost every night, yes it's fun, but my sleeping has been affected by it bc of how energetic i can get
So mostly positive so called symptoms except for the aggression and lack of focus.
Yes but bc you usually sleep less, and do more stuff, there is danger of overworking yourself
Also the depression is more likely and more chronic compared to those with manic episodes
Very helpful. Thank you
How often can a person have a hypomania in year? What if a person just has 1/2?
Thanik you and please change your mic
I've been told by my buddy she notice what she suspects is an oncoming episode from me she notice that I start blinking multiple times in a rapid manner. Has anyone else experienced rapid blinking like that?
I will move with one leg very rapidly
Yes!! I blink so much when I’m manic
I get to episodes of almost attention seeking, engage a conversation and somehow go into a long winded discussion about my past , then get into computers until i feel like a annoying chatterbox and seclude myself. I would even leave friend's houses to smoke to 'anchor' my mind. Writing fiction helps to focus that thought process to something people like.
I have this. It sucks.
My bipolar symptoms have lessened over the past 2 or 3 years but they now are or were more rapid cycling without going to full blown hypomania. I went off mood stabiliser for 3 months was fine then started with new therapist and I was all over the place for whole month went back on low dose of epillim and I leveled out for one month then had hypomania at lower level not with all the same symptoms as I used to get. This went on for a week and then I crashed for a week. I didn't realise I was hypomanic until I crashed. Now if I get just a bit to over excited I can have elevated mood without all the symptoms I used to get and twice I have had delusional thinking over past few months. My symptoms are so different now with hypomania I am having a hard time knowing it. Until I crash. Have you had patients experience this sort of thing?
Hi Suzy, our videos are for educational purposes and we can't provide personalised feedback, we think it's best to speak with your doctor to get the care and input you need.
@@epsychiatry5898 yea I know I was just curious if you ran across a situation like mine. I have a Dr I will talk to him.
Hello. Fellow bipolar II person here just to chime in. I also struggle to realise when I'm hypomanic until I crash, because I convince myself that I'm just happy or finally stable. Then I crash and it's so terrible!
I'm havin all the symptoms i have bipolar type 2
Is this part of bipolar disorder
Yes … hypo-mania or mania are cycles within the bipolar disorder diagnoses… some clinicians believe that there are three different types of bipolar disorders
Usually associated with Bipolar 2
Bipolar 1 been there you haven't
I’ve been experiencing this for 7 years