Posted by SLS on March 22, 2006, at 6:38:01
In reply to Re: Never thought I'd hear this..... » SLS, posted by detroitpistons on March 21, 2006, at 23:40:42
This sounds like hypomania to me. I guess it takes one to know one.
:-)
- Scott
> > > I had way too much energy.
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> > In what way?
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> I couldn't sit still. For example, it's not uncommon for me to come home from work, have some dinner and watch TV. Sitting down and watching TV was something that became very undesirable. It was too "slow." I couldn't relax.
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> > > I actually did some cleaning (I normally have a very difficult time cleaning--I wait till something is covered in dust to clean it).
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> > Did you pace yourself or did you race from one task to another? Did you find that you were not completing all the tasks you began? Were you organized or disorganized? How many hours of sleep did you get? Increased libido? Did you find yourself driving too fast? Did you find that other people were too slow and that you were quicker and smarter?
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> I would pretty much race from one thing to another without completing the first thing. I was disorganized and had a hard time remembering what I had been doing a moment ago. I was sleeping less and not feeling tired. Normally, I need 7-8 hours of sleep. During this time, I could sleep 5 hours and still feel fine. My libido wasn't increased, but Effexor may have had something to do with that. But I've never had a high libido. In fact, I think I have a pretty low libido, even when not on AD's.
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> Driving too fast? Don't even have the option with the traffic here. Although, one day the traffic was so bad and I was so frustrated, that when I finally got the chance (far enough out of the city where traffic had dissipated), I went up to 130 mph out of frustration.
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> I thought that I was quicker than other people in mundane ways (like they would be too slow crossing the street when I was trying to turn), but I didn't necessarily feel smarter than other people, simply because I could barely concentrate on any one thing at any given time. I felt as though I was cognitively impaired.
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