Posted by Sean on September 8, 1999, at 12:29:50
In reply to cyclothymia, posted by Janice on September 7, 1999, at 23:53:14
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> Hi, it's great to hear this is a pretty common problem. We do better when structure is imposed from the outside. Going to the office on the week-end just doesn't cut it. I definately get mild highs, excitable, very social, inflated sense of well-being, bursting with ideas, love to shop (very rarely a spree - just shopping) unable to sleep, and my senses, Whow!. I notice beautiful things everywhere. Sometimes I just get overwhelmed with 'the good emotions' and I am super sensitive to emotional nuances, and I cry as much as when I'm depressed, just for different reasons. Those are some of my middle hypomania symptoms.
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> My more powerful ones are having supernatural powers (I use them only for the good). These highs are as completely convincing as my lows.
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> And my most common type of hypomanic symptom and my least favorite, my 'mixed' state which mainly manifests itself as irritability.
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> I'm wondering if you don't need the highs to be cyclothymic.If cyclothymia can be low to medium in one cycle.
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> For me I honestly believe the difference in routine started the depression, and I have a very sensitive physical body. Once the cycle started, it just kept snowballing until I figured this all out 4 years ago.I much better now, but not from ADs.Janice.Hey everybody -
This sounds like my brain too. Sleep can switch
my moods very quickly sometimes. Too little and
things get wacky, too much and it is awful.I read in Kay Jamison's book that people with
bipolar spectrum disorder have a hypersentitive
pineal/melatonin reaction to sleep. This may be
a trait marker for BP (vs. UP) although melatonin
is certainly not a good therapy.Hypomania is grand. I find that I start some really
good projects that get increasingly ridiculous
until they look like answers to world problems
or secrets of the universe. Usually I get wacked
out on some conceptual "take" on things. I once
did this with UFO's and soon my room was literally
filled with books, computer printouts, clippings
from magazines, and I was not sleeping at all.
Then it got real spooky and I was convinced an
abduction was pending and getting really paranoid.So ridiculous in retrospect but utterly
convincing at the time!
poster:Sean
thread:11004
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