Bipolar Disorder - Teen Support Group

Thank you to all who replied. I have more understanding of mania. I realized I have more symptoms than I knew about. I also feel less alone in it.

Its when your extremely hyper. It really depends on what mood but for me I always go threw maniac right around my monthly, i know tmi. i yell alot, get grounded, yell some more, then get happy happy happy. i want to climb the walls all of a sudden when I am happy and tear them down when mad.

I take meds but they dont work durring my monthly like they are supposed to.

When I am manic, I cannot sit still. I laugh at stupid things and I feel really high. I feel like I can do anything and take in alot of things. I also get distracted easily and am irritable. I get flashes of anger and I lash out at people. I cannot concentrate on things I need to, for example Tests, and it really takes it toll.

I don't get manic...I get a lot of hypomania, but I've never been completely manic. My hypomania presents itself with extreme hyperactivity and giddiness. EXTREME distractibility. I get distracted fairly easily anyway [ADD tendencies], but anything and everything distracts me when I'm hypomanic. Jittery, too. Constantly tapping hands or feet. I have little need for sleep. BUT I cycle REALLY rapidly. Like, within minutes or hours, so I rarely am hypomanic long enough to affect my sleep more than one night at the very most...if I get hypomanic in the morning or early afternoon however, it won't affect my sleep at all because I will have either come down to "normal" or cycle down into depression by night fall because anything that goes wrong when I'm hypomanic throws me immediately into depression and whatever the trigger was feels like the end of the world even if it's as minor as getting told off about something or losing something [which is really often - I'm terrible at keeping track of things]. My hyperactivity and super-fast talking scares my friends sometimes because it's so unlike me...generally I'm very shy and reserved and often when I'm hypomanic I have to *force* myself to slow my speech down to be understood.

When i'm mainc I don't like to be close to people, i clean alot, i really want to go shopping, I just really happy and hyper and i don't think i need sleep.

When i'm depressed- I get kind of hmm horny i guess you can call it, and then i just get sad and i don't see the point in anything at all and mostly it's i don't want to live.

That's just what i can think of off the topof my head, i hope that this helps you.

Depending on what set me off, when i'm manic i usually speak randomly and get pretty hyper. My depressive state lasts much longer than my manic one. Sometimes i don't remember exactly what i did, but usually i laugh for no reason, and usually when i'm manic i pull out my eyelashes and eyebrow hairs and cut my hair or alter my appearance drastically. Really sucks when i can't stop it :l I've only lasted 1 day without sleep, but i blacked out at school the next day. After that day i was taken out of school for the remainder of the year.

rocksta87 hehe thats cool

i get crazy ideas and believe them when im manic, also it feels like there is an energy inside of my that just doesnt run out. and i stay up all night and run all day.

I am too happy.
I think everyone is a great person,when in reality they are not.
After that fades,I go into She HULK mode and yell and scream...it is scary.

Becca