Posted by Ron Hill on April 11, 2002, at 1:52:42
In reply to Re: Anxiety vs. Hypomania » Ron Hill, posted by 2sense on April 10, 2002, at 12:40:47
> I am interested to know from any one (some, many, all) of your individual points of view what you as a person (not a/your doctor's interpretation and/or definition) would define, explain, write about, as far as more exactly what your/the symptoms of hypomania are?
What is hypomania like?:
restlessness
fast thoughts, ideas flowing
high energy
desire to do something
joy in spending
interest in uncharacteristic flirting sexually
markedly disinhibited
overactive
expressing grandiose ideation.
>I am also very interested for what it means, as best as one can articulate, what exactly is meant by the term pressured speech -- as I have seen it clinically defined differently -- and my own psychiatrist says it is just talking fast -- any takers?What I call "pressured speech" is when someone else is talking and I feel this overwhelming need to give my verbal response before the other person is finished. It's a social appropriateness issue. It's like I'm afraid I will forget my train of thought if I wait until the other person is finished. And besides, what I need to say is REALLY IMPORTANT, whereas, as far as I'm concerned, all the other person is saying is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and more blah (i.e. stuff I already know)!
Sue, I don't know you, so please do not feel that you need to answer my question unless you want to. Here's my question: How do you know that what you think is ADHD is not, in reality, bipolar hypomania (or mania)?
-- Ron
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