{"id":114,"date":"2012-07-20T16:52:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T23:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/02\/19\/talking-over-people-when-manic\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:58:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:58:22","slug":"talking-over-people-when-manic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/talking-over-people-when-manic\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it Mania or am I Just Amazing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is a comment from Marcello- a reader from Texas. He told me what it feels like to have a manic episode. <\/strong><\/p>\n

“I can hear myself talking and talking these days. I have trouble letting people finish their sentences and always feel the need to get my words in. It\u2019s embarrassing as it\u2019s hard to monitor myself when I\u2019m actually in a conversation. I know it\u2019s happening! But it feels so good to talk- especially after a depression that made me so desperately unhappy. My friends are used to my talking- I just apologize and try to be a good listener when I\u2019ve got too much manic energy. Then I have to face reality and talk to my nurse practitioner. I use your books Julie, but the mania still shows up. I wish that I could keep it away forever. As always, it feels better to be up than down- but being up has its own major problems: sleep issues, not eating (this is great for me, but a problem for others), the desire to drink, no desire to work and grandiose thoughts.<\/p>\n

A few days ago, after a few days of depression, I woke up feeling \u2018better.\u2019 I thought what I always think- oh thank heavens the depression is gone. Then later that afternoon I had the thought, \u201cAmerica is such an amazing place. It\u2019s so beautiful!\u201d and then when I was at a movie theater, \u201cI\u2019m the most famous person in this room!\u201d It’s very hilarious in some ways.<\/p>\n

Not a good sign at all. It took me awhile to realize and admit that i was hypomanic (mild mania) and it made me sad to think I was rapid cycling again.<\/p>\n

Rotten illness. I hate doing it, but I have to be honest with my friends and family and let them know I\u2019m manic so they can help reign it in. I started my mania Health Card where I write down my mania symptoms so that I can go back and compare them to what I am feeling now. What I wrote is verbatim to what I am saying now. I guess the mania is real.<\/p>\n

I then have to prepare for the inevitable depression and use my Get it Done techniques to deal with it.<\/p>\n

You taught me that Mania is not GOOD and depression is not BAD. The are two sides to the bipolar coin.”<\/p>\n

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Thanks Marcello!<\/p>\n

Julie<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a comment from Marcello- a reader from Texas. He told me what it feels like to have a manic episode. <\/p>\n

“I can hear myself talking and talking these days. I have trouble letting people finish their sentences and always feel the need to get my words in. It\u2019s embarrassing as it\u2019s hard to monitor myself when I\u2019m actually in a conversation. I know it\u2019s happening! But it feels so good to talk- especially after a depression that made me so desperately unhappy. My friends are used to my talking- I just apologize and try to be a good listener when I\u2019ve got too much manic energy. Then I have to face reality and talk to my nurse practitioner. I use your books Julie, but the mania still shows up. I wish that I could keep it away forever. As [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11496,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/11496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}