{"id":115,"date":"2012-04-20T17:01:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/02\/21\/bipolar-disorder-and-grandiose-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:59:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:59:16","slug":"bipolar-disorder-mania-and-grandiose-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-mania-and-grandiose-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder Mania and Grandiose Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There is a symptom of\u00a0mania that isn\u2019t talked about very often- egotistical thoughts- the technical term is grandiose thoughts.<\/p>\n

I remember when my former partner first started to get sick. He is such a mild mannered wonderful person who is always pretty low key. Before he went into the hospital, I found a paper where he had written, \u201cI am a genius and I can\u2019t tell anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

I had no idea what this meant at the time. This didn\u2019t fit his personality at all! And even though I\u2019d had hypomania since I was 17, I couldn\u2019t identify with the genius thing. As my bipolar has gotten worse, I do go into \u2018I\u2019m the greatest person in the world\u2019 mode once in a while. I can laugh about it! I just have to make sure I write it all down on my Mania Health Card. And I never say the thoughts out loud. That would be a real problem.<\/p>\n

I write about my experience with Ivan being sick in Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder.<\/em> I can honestly say I wish I\u2019d had that book when he got out of the hospital!<\/p>\n

Spring is here in the US. You need a mania plan. And family members need to know what to do as well. Never forget, mania peaks in the summer!<\/p>\n

Julie<\/p>\n

PS:\u00a0 Hi Julie, I love this post. When my son gets manic, he is so self centered he won’t even let us talk.\u00a0 He acts like he knows EVERYTHING even physics and how Hollywood works and how to work on a car. It drives us all crazy! Bonnie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There is a symptom of mania that isn\u2019t talked about very often- egotistical thoughts- the technical term is grandiose thoughts.<\/p>\n

I remember when my former partner first started to get sick. He is such a mild mannered wonderful person who is always pretty low key. Before he went into the hospital, I found a paper where he had written, \u201cI am a genius and I can\u2019t tell anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

I had no idea what this meant at the time. This didn\u2019t fit his personality at all! And even though I\u2019d had hypomania since I was 17, I couldn\u2019t identify with the genius thing. As my bipolar has gotten worse, I do go into \u2018I\u2019m the greatest person in the world\u2019 mode once in a while. I can laugh about it! I [ 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\/115"}],"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=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11560,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/11560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}