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Happy Mother’s Day

I went to the mall today got my Starbucks. It was buy one get one so I got my friend a Starbucks drink. I was sitting with my friend who has #Bipolar unspecified disorder. She works at Starbucks and we actually bonded over mental health . We have been talking for awhile now. I felt extremely happy today and much more alive does that make sense. I was very giddy. She says sounds like I am hypo manic. #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #PTSD #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #Bipolar2 . I walked 11,670 steps,78 minutes of exercise and 4.55 miles

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signs that your getting bad again

#Anxiety #Depression #OCD #ADHD #Grief #Mania #Loss

anytime you have theses symptoms please reach out to someone on the mighty or a therapist or doc..we are here for you..i know its hard to reach out for help when all you do is feel like a burden but everyone deserves support and help from one another..

you can personally DM me if anyone needs to talk about anything... feel free..if i dont get back to you right away then please bare w me..i will get back to you though..i promise

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Well, meds…

Well, went to a pathways clinic to do a substance abuse assessment, didn’t seem to have a problem with that but the counselor thinks I need bimonthly therapy, one-on-one… Then, during the clinic Dr’s appt, the doc gave me Rxs for generic Trileptal and Vistaral. I guess I know/knew I have issues with anxiety and mania, now maybe a bit(?) bipolar…. Don’t usually sleep well most nights, since I was a young kid.

I guess knowing some type of meds may stop or even slow down the brain would be nice after all this time.

I had thought about therapy of some kind years ago, but was trying to take care of others, so put it off.

Well, thanks for listening a minute.

Good wishes for everyone here on The Mighty…

#Bipolar2 #Anxiety #Mania #MentalHealth #MightyTogether

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The Face of

When I am manic, I feel awesome. I think that I am a God. I also think that I am beautiful. This sort of confidence can be a really attractive thing to people, especially the opposite sex in its early stages. Another symptom of mania is being overly seductive. I have been guilty of this but never have I been promiscuous while ill. But my seduction often turns into crazed harassment of the men I have targeted as my love interests. I’m including a selfie with this story that I took when I was high. And by high, I mean my mood was not only elevated by mania but I was also very much in love. With a cop. He nearly got a restraining order on me. I’ve always been passive-aggressive and with that confidence I spoke of comes the urgency to get what I want. As embarrassing as it is, I totally went for it but scared the guy off. My apologies, Eddie. And to all of my other potential boyfriends out there who experienced me at my worst.

Physically, my face while ill is beautiful in the sense that it’s animated and expressive. Especially with my smiles and my wide eyed enthusiasm. Those eyes of mine also have a far off look in them. I’m in my own little fantasy world. I’m wild and so is the look on my face. These days I don’t yearn for those incredible feelings that come with mania. Manic episodes never end well. My greatest fear is relapsing. Now I find myself having different goals for my face. To be a face for mental illness. A spokesperson of sorts or just an advocate. This is something that I have been working towards for as long as I have lived with bipolar disorder which is nearly 30 years. If I can do anything good with my life, it would be to encourage conversations to be opened up surrounding mental illness. I’d like to help remove the stigma that surrounds it. Mental illness is a very scary thing for everyone who has experienced it either personally or have been affected by those who live with it. It doesn’t have to be. I wish that I could bottle the bravery that comes with bipolar mania and share it with the world. If mania was an essential oil, courage would be the active ingredient. But I would have to leave out the part that gives me the audacity to stalk a police officer, lol. Maybe something really positive can come out of having a mental illness and for once in my life I won’t see mania as something that has ruined my life but as something that has enhanced it.

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Energy levels #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #PTSD #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder

When I had my therapy appointment last week I explained my energy levels. I told him I have more energy when I get 6 hours of sleep. Now that my sleep is back on I still have high energy levels. He said maybe I’m manic I said I don’t have #Bipolar . He said you don’t need to have all of the symptoms of #Bipolar . I have depression and been hospitalized. I see him today to discuss this further

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Your Friends Are an Accessory #Bipolar #PTSD #BPD #selfcare #Depression #Hope #advocate #Mania #Support

We really do need to be our own best friends, our own cheerleaders and our own advocates. No one can speak up for you better than you can, only you know the true depth of your darkness.

Which is ideal when you need to speak up for yourself or ask for help and do yourself justice when advocating for your needs, hopes and desires.

Yes, friends are cool, we can share our feelings, help each other out or even just watch a bad movie and have meaningless conversations.

The simplest things can make all the difference when connecting with your friends, your chosen family.

We can often find true beauty within our friendships, when you notice a familiar laugh or smile, or hear that warm voice saying, ‘Good night, sleep tight’.

We need that beauty in our lives, it is vital.

But when it becomes a necessity, things can become toxic very easily, slowly we rely on these companions for more and more, not always, but sometimes, and sometimes can be all it takes to sour a good apple.

When you start to trust your own judgement, discernment and advice you awaken a power within you that can really help you begin living now, only then can you give your full presence and gifts to those you hold dear.

Please cherish your relationships, but remember they are an accessory, you are the necessity.

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Maybe Manic?

I am worried that I'm entering a manic phase. My mania is never as bad as my depression, but it is just such a horrible time to be ready to fight or party. I am just so chipper despite everything going on in my life - which is not like me. I am just so unsure and don't want to torpedo my life.#BipolarDisorder

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Reaching out, then regret, recovery - any ideas?

Last month around my birthday I got a little excited/manic and reached out to a lot of friends. Had a plan for a birthday party, but it all fell through due to COVID and then taking time off from work for a partial hospitalization program.

Now I've got approx 30-40 messages/posts to reply to from friends and family.

They keep building up and at this point its overwhelming to reply to them all.

Does anyone else experience this? When feeling good I reach out to friends, then when something happens/falls through - I isolate and then don't reply, creating my own anxiety.

Anyone have any tips on how I could make a post to address this without revealing my mental health stuff?

I wish I could reply to each person, but it's too much.

So this post, something like "Thanks for all the messages, I've been out for health issues, etc, still want to chat". IDK how to phrase it well. #Bipolar1 #Mania #SocialAnxiety #Depression

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Feeling so confused and lost

I feel like I’ve never known how to properly “manage” myself. My mind has been a blur lately and I’ve just been going through the motions. I do that sometimes. I have #Bipolar2 and just recently am realizing something about myself that I never knew… I maybe on the #AutismSpectrumDisorder and I’m unsure how to process that? I’ve had a lot of change the last year and fell very unregulated. I’m trying to stop myself from going down into a hole but I’m not sure I’m going to be able to. I’m sleeping a lot on my days off and having a lot of trouble processing my thoughts and focusing. It’s been really hard for me to function lately. My #Anxiety is very high and I suffer from #CPTSD I recently got out of a physically abusive relationship well 6 months ago. The last 3 months have been a total blur. I was doing ok but then I’ve just been all over the place since. I’m exhausted trying to fight my mind. Trying to just be able to function. I feel like I can’t catch a break. My life isn’t bad I just can’t focus enough to process it. I go through periods like this where I just kinda exist and lose track of life passing me by. I struggle to even accept myself when I’m like this, let alone like myself. I just feel so “abnormal” it sucks. I can’t keep up. I fell apart in 2013 during my last year of college… I failed my senior year. I’m just realizing that the reason I fell apart may not have just been my on set of my bipolar disorder but the dealing with hypomania for the first time may not be the sole reason I “broke down” I’m now seeing it may have also been that I had been #Masking my autism and before the mania I was able to do that but after that I wasn’t able to successfully mask anymore and that’s why I couldn’t finish school and why my life started to fall apart. I’m feeling really lost right now and do not know what to do? I’m feeling really alone too. I can’t manage to keep friendships because it’s just to hard with all of my mental health conditions and now I’m realizing the autism may also be a reason I struggle so much with maintaining friendships as well. I’ve never been loved for who I am and that just really sucks. People make me feel like I was better before I “fell apart” in 2013. I always thought the #Bipolar2 was to blame but now that I’m realizing that the #Autism may have also been a factor I’m starting to think it’s not the bipolar disorder that people can’t accept, it’s the fact that they don’t like the real me. The unmasked me. The masked me was “together” I liked her but I haven’t been able to get back to that place since and I feel like no one has loved me for who I really am. This post 2013 me is who I’ve always been but everyone wants the masked me back. But that was never the real me to begin with. Maybe I can learn to love the real me and not want the old me back because that wasn’t the real me. Maybe if that’s how I finally look at it maybe I can make peace with who I am and not keep wanting to go back to the masked me? Because that was never real and being real is the way to truly live. If you’ve read this far thanks. I feel strange even posting this because I ended up almost journaling instead of writing a post but maybe writing this as a post for actual people to read maybe what I needed opposed to writing my thoughts in a journal no one will ever read. Maybe I finally had an ah ha moment? I need to stop doing what I’ve been internally doing for over a decade wanting to be the old together me because that me was the masked me not the real me and I haven’t gotten back there because she was never real and she isn’t where I’m meant to be. She served a purpose, a lot of me wishes I could have masked long enough to get my degree but that wasn’t meant to be either. I need to love the real me because there’s nothing wrong with her and she has worth and chasing after a masked version of myself is never going to make me happy. And if the people in my life want that girl/young woman back then they only accepted the masked me and that’s on them. Maybe I can finally start the journey on loving the real me which is the real thing that has been truly holding me back the last decade. Yes figuring out how to manage my bipolar disorder better will be helpful but knowing now that old me was a mask and a lie and not who I should want back because I’ll never be able to love who I really am if I’m chasing my masked self. That’s led to years and years of disappointment and is why I’ve never actually moved forward since. I’ve “survived” so to speak but have been stuck in the shadow of my former self thinking that where I needed to go but that’s the opposite direction I should be going. Knowing that now I can finally move forward and stop trying to chase an artificial version of myself. I was never suppose to put that mask back on I’m suppose to accept who I really am. No one has made me feel proud of the true version of myself and that has been heartbreaking but if I can learn to love and accept her maybe others can too. If they can’t that’s ok too. I can learn to better make peace with that too. Again if you’re still reading thanks I’m drowning on and on but just writing this has made a huge difference on where I was at mentally when I started to where I am now. Like I said before maybe my thoughts needed to be written in a way that was directed towards someone reading this instead of just a journal, to be able to get here to this place. Even if no one does read this I appreciate the mighty for giving me this outlet to express myself to people who I feel safe enough expressing it to. 🩷🩷

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#Anxiety #MentalHealth

Haven't felt like myself since the pandemic. I barely feel like I'm a real human now because I feel completely disconnected from reality. Even when I talk to people it feels like I'm not in the same room as them and I'm just always so caught up in my own little world. I'm not really as present as I should be but I really don't know how to be present because the type of anxiety I have is so overwhelming to the point where I feel like not knowing what to do

I know the tools and what to do to decrease anxiety and I have had good days before. It's not like I'm not doing anything to help myself but man, sometimes it's hard to do the right thing when you're constantly feeling anxious. I could type a long list of all my physical symptoms right now and you wouldn't believe it. It's just a lot to deal with. I have health anxiety and it's been eating my ass since the pandemic now and I'm still very much dealing with this shit now. I don't know how to feel "normal" anymore. Like what even is normal these days? I don't know.

I wish I could relate to someone who actually understands me and who doesn't ignore me but it's been so hard connecting with the right people. I wish my family were better so then maybe I would've talked to them more often but it just feels like I can't really talk to anyone so I guess the best thing to do is to just bottle it up. I know it's a horrible thing to do and besides it's not like I fully bottle it up because I do talk to some people online and I write like a fucking manic all the time but also at the same time I feel like I crave company and a REAL friend who will be there for me. I feel like I'm so needy now and I sort of hate it because most of the time I'm just forced having to be with myself instead. I just want a friend who can relate to me. That's all I really want.

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