I once asked a friend of mine what he thought about mania and his friends with bipolar disorder. It’s always interesting to ask the people in your life how they perceive\u00a0bipolar \u00a0moodswings. It may be very different than you expect. Here is his answer.<\/p>\n
**<\/p>\n
\u00a0I’ve always thought of mania as a “Euphoric” high, the feeling that we
\n\u00a0all have at times that is exacerbated with someone with bipolar
\n\u00a0disorder.\u00a0 You feel like you can do no wrong, you feel great, you can’t
\n\u00a0believe you’ve ever been depressed.\u00a0 You can spend money, make big decisions,
\n\u00a0all with this state of mind.\u00a0 I compare it to making decisions with a
\n\u00a0depressed mind, you don’t want to do that either.\u00a0 It’s like two ends
\n\u00a0of a spectrum.\u00a0 It may feel great to be on a manic high, but it seems
\n\u00a0uncontrollable, decisions are made that are easily regrettable in a short
\n\u00a0time.\u00a0 Like a control chart people have highs and lows, the best time
\n\u00a0to use your mind for rational thought is in the middle, or ‘medium
\n\u00a0high’. You are thinking and listening less when both manic or depressed as
\n\u00a0well.\u00a0 For some people like my girlfriend who’s a natural speaker, talking
\n\u00a0comes so easy that it’s more difficult to recognize when\u00a0she’s on a manic
\n\u00a0high.\u00a0 The best way I could see that\u00a0she was \u00a0manic was\u00a0her inability to
\n\u00a0listen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Find me some water and I will walk on it” – ancient Chinese proverb.<\/p>\n
When I first met my girlfriend,\u00a0she was manic.\u00a0 I didn’t recognize it
\n\u00a0of course but I thought I knew enough about bipolar disorder to where I
\n\u00a0thought I could recognize it and deal with it.\u00a0 When in fact I didn’t
\n\u00a0even recognize\u00a0her symptoms until much later.\u00a0 There is no one perfect
\n\u00a0way to deal with it, other than to remind yourself and your friends to
\n\u00a0make decisions with the right frame of mind, and learn what is that
\n\u00a0right frame of mind.\u00a0 Most people with depression and bipolar can’t even
\n\u00a0see when they are out of there mental ‘sweet spot’.\u00a0 That’s where
\n\u00a0friends and family come into play to help\u00a0 those with\u00a0bipolar disorder
\n\u00a0recognize whether\u00a0they’re \u00a0in a depressed mind, or a manic mind. Then we can help.<\/p>\n
**<\/p>\n
Interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I once asked a friend of mine what he thought about mania and his friends with bipolar disorder. It’s always interesting to ask the people in your life how they perceive bipolar moodswings. It may be very different than you expect. Here is his answer.<\/p>\n
**<\/p>\n
I’ve always thought of mania as a “Euphoric” high, the feeling that we all have at times that is exacerbated with someone with bipolar disorder. You feel like you can do no wrong, you feel great, you can’t believe you’ve ever been depressed. You can spend money, make big decisions, all with this state of mind. I compare it to making decisions with a depressed mind, you don’t want to do that either. It’s like two ends of a spectrum. It may feel great to be on a manic high, but it seems uncontrollable, decisions are made that are easily regrettable in a short time. Like a control [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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\/886"}],"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=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11945,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/11945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}