Could you possible tell me how a) The Mania and b) The Depression makes YOU feel and how it makes you act. Thankyou for your time.
2006-10-10 03:25:01 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
as far a (a) mania goes it makes me feel like i can rule the world and (b) all I want to do is cry and /or try to kill myself
2006-10-10 03:29:28 · answer #1 · answered by harold.parrish 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mania stage: Super me! I can talk better, act better, my confidence is high, my inhibitions are low, my creativity is churning away. I need no sleep, because it'll just get in the way of my progress. I live on stimulation, so I'll watch TV, play video games, stay on the internet 'til the new dawn breaks. People find me funny, witty, and mostly irreverent. I'll go drinking and dancing wherever there's a sterea and alcohol. I'm a bit more horny, a bit more flirty, and will take off my shirt if someone asks to see anything. My head is running on thoughts like it were speed and I don't want them to stop. Stopping is bad. Mania is good.
Depression for me happens rather quickly (I have type 2 BPD). When it does, it usually starts with one thought, I suck, and all the reasons for me sucking come afterwards, real or imagined... mostly imagined. I'm quiet, severely contemplative, impatient with every little action I do, including breathing. I look like ****, smell like ****, and eat like ****. I feel that all the world is a burden for me and I alone stand on the very top of the burden as the straw on the camel's back. I am my worst enemy and I will do everything in my power to destroy her. Everything.
2006-10-10 03:43:26 · answer #2 · answered by the_rising_goddess 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No one has gone into detail about the ugly side of mania. When manic, I have dozens of thoughts at once and can't focus on any one for any length of time. I can't sleep, I make big "judgement mistakes." I have the energy to carry out the self-destructive feelings that I created during depression. I am most likely to quit taking my medications. I have the least support from friends and relatives.
Like everybody else said, depression involves sadness, tiredness, lack of motivation to do anything.
2006-10-10 05:09:52 · answer #3 · answered by doug k 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Manic. Extreme amounts of mental activity. I told a friend that while i am in my manic phase its like I am watching myself on a huge IMAX theater screen with the brightest colors and the most crisp sounds. I feel like I am watching myself on the screen with the ability to stop the clip, peek forward to the next frame and then change what I am currently doing to dramatically impact the next frame (future). It is very surreal. I am extremely creative and this has helped me be very successfull. I write alot of poetry. I have earned many many awards at work. I read alot, barely eat hand hardly sleep. The feeling is so awesome.
Depressive cycle I cant get out of bed. I argue at everything and and I am very direct which others consider rude. I dont like being around people.
I am now on Trileptal and Ativan. The doc says that Bipolar sufferers need to sleep to keep balance. The Trileptal helps me stay even and decreases the intensity of thoughts, but does not cease them. It helps me manage them. The ativan helps relieve the occasional anxiety attacks and also helps when I have more difficulty than usual sleeping.
2006-10-10 03:41:03 · answer #4 · answered by En1gma 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I have manic episodes, they are considered hypomanic. I tend to have alot of energy, creative ideas, more impulsivity then normal. I talk alot and fast. At my extremes, I spend more money then I should, have way too much "spontaneous" adventures.
Depression on the other hand, makes me constantly exhuasted. I feel like I could sleep all the time, yet I have horrific insomnia. Nothing seems to go right and I feel l ike it never will. Depression really clouds my thinking and makes me feel like I will always be depressed.
2006-10-10 05:08:22 · answer #5 · answered by aria2323 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mania I was in mostly growing up and for years. not so much downs. inherited it from mother.. that's OK. fine really. but after mother died and other loses. I get to crying. every day. it'd feel OK when I am high like. but the lows are tiring, sad, sometimes suicidal.I feeel things deeper ,pray.one day a t a time. good luck
2006-10-10 03:42:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best way I can describe myself is to say
A) I want to be on a trampoline doing flips in the air!!!
B) I want to roll down the steps, breaking every bone in body along the way to my death.
I think it is interesting that in both instances I am moving in a circular motion, but in opposite directions. I think this ciircular motion is anxiety.
In A) I jump around and run around a lot.
In B) I start to destroy things, ripping papers, etc.
2006-10-10 04:40:39 · answer #7 · answered by ee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I am depressed, I want to be alone, in the dark, in my room, and I just want to cry. I dont want to do anything else.
When I am manic, I am hyper, want to go, go, go....shopping or to lunch or whatever, wherever. I am full of energy and cant sit down. I tend to make bad decisions when Im manic. I also will have more anger when Im manic.
2006-10-10 04:31:08 · answer #8 · answered by ~~ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mania makes you feel great! Depression sucks!
2006-10-10 03:34:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
My manic episodes seem to consist of excessive actions such as spending sprees and overblown excitement of everyday events, as well as inappropriate acting out.
My depression can be almost debilitating. I seem to spend more time in depression than in mania.
Hope that helps.
2006-10-10 03:38:12 · answer #10 · answered by txrealestateagent 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋