Bipolar Disorder Support Group

Since hypomania is a dangerous mood, I doubt that any ethical doc would even try to keep you there. I never tried but then I always cruised through hypomania to mania and through this door watch your step to depression. What works for me is to be as stable as possible. Seems that if we're prone to mood swings we'll be depressed at some point so it's better to learn to deal with it.

Ok not fully functional yet so trying to clarify and understand - do you mean to always be manic? I am manic probaly 200 days out of the year with a few depression days tossed in and even fewer "normal" days if this is what you mean. If this isnt what you mean then obviously I will be shutting up now

Ok with tommys post I got the clarification I was looking for thanks

Not sure. I use to deal w depression and physical effects of depression on reg bases.
I still have phase in phases of endless cycle that a phase being depression.
W medication this phase is further apart from next depression phase and only last 1 to 3 days. Very rarly does it hit me hard as liken to prior use of medication to point where it's all that I can do is to get out of bed and go to bth rm by passing the kitchen.
I have tell tell signs when am going into depression. again w medication the phase is short lived.
I thank God for pdoc that I have and medication that I have being already on market.

pisst prior to right medication and mg., I use to deal w depress for consective mo's on end.

currently am in short lived foul mouth stage.
During this phase I keep my distance from my friends because when am in this phase Iam far way to honest & quite blunt.

admiral, thats funny you talk about being way to honest and blunt-when i first started my parnate i was that way. i couldn't believe the crude shit that would come out of my mouth in front of my boss, inlaws, you name it i had to restraint. its kinda funny now that i think about it i said "balls" to my boss, and i wasn't talking about sports.

sorry, i meant to say 'no restraint'

l've had a year here and there when l was tripping the light fantastic but can a Dr have kept it going nope, every high kills brain cells plus while there it could trigger hyper sexuality so for all those reasons and more like the overspending etc etc ethicaly no one would

When I am hypomanic my behavior tends to be destructive. I get hypersexual, take risks, and just generally run amok. I try to stay in the middle. That is my goal.

On meds I go from being hypomanic back to normal without even feeling depression. It's nice but the side effects of being on meds are not worth my time on them.....ie loss of libido and weight gain. I just wish I could tell my pdoc to fuck off and say to hell with meds.....

I am with Ele1 on this one.

I've been in this state for just over 3 months now. Not the haha funny life's a joy smell the roses but the irritation phase.

I'm feeling a HELL of a lot more stable now. Thank God no depression (yet???) although I'd say my mood could still be just a teeny weeny bit a little elevated.