Bipolar Disorder Support Group

Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria, often accompanied by bouts of clinical depression. This is the place to talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, learn from others' experiences, and find support.

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What makes you manic?

SoleyUnrequited
SoleyUnrequited
Making new friends, meeting an attractive guy, pay day, sunshine, being with a group of friends in bars. I'll feel on top of the world, can't sit still, chatty, silly,..etc.

Sometimes during my mania I am irritable by snapping at people. This happens when I don't get my way or something doesn't go as planned or expected. I take it out on others because when I used to take out on myself I'd cut.
deleted_user
deleted_user
good question..and i don't have a clear cut answer..it can be anything...like you said if something doesn't go my way I get irratiable..I am manic right now..think it happened right around noon yesterday..LOL
SoleyUnrequited
SoleyUnrequited
Haha..goes to show how unique we all are.
deleted_user
deleted_user
nothing and everything
deleted_user
deleted_user
You know it almost makes me wonder how doctors can truly diagnose us because we are different..
deleted_user
deleted_user
My ass lives there - no shit I have 2 stages bad and good mani have never been stable in my life wouldnt know it if it bit me in the ass and introduced its self. The only depression I have is SAD and have only rapid cycled one it lasted 2 weeks and doctor blamed bad reactopm to meds whicc were quickly discontinued
deleted_user
deleted_user
If we are truly talking just manic here, not anxious or irritable or stuff like that, one thing that can put me in a manic state is love, or more to the point the pursuit of love.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Not sure what makes get manic for sure, but once im there.. woo baby...
dancingd
dancingd
Loud music,any loud noises...but it's more like a disphoric mania,not full blown mania.It usually lasts only a short time,if I remove myself from the trigger.
deleted_user
deleted_user
We are definitely more individual in that regard! I am Never irritable when manic, only when depressed.

Am like Bronte, and most likely to become manic when triggered by emotional feelings (and someone to have them for)
deleted_user
deleted_user
I don't have an answer...except the chemical in my head.
That's the only grasp I have on it because I haven't found a trigger for my manica yet...
deleted_user
deleted_user
I don't care if I'm manic, depressed or none of the above: I'm one cranky, irritable SOB. I hates the world. I hates sloths but most of all, I hates people. In fact, get the hell out of my way and leave me alone. Grrrrrrggghhhh.
jeansmind
jeansmind
I havent been full blown manic since 2006, hmmm, lets see, what made me so sick that I couldnt even tell I was manic???? Looking back, I'd have to say it was hormonal, just had a baby, and my ex was not banging me....maybe for good reason, but still, loss of love....thats a biggie for me.