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Allen Baranov's avatar

I've been through something similar but on a way-way-way less huge scale. It can be scary when your brain does its own thing and I can only imagine what it'd be like when it is at the scale you have described.

I hope you have good support and can ride this out. Please just take care of yourself, mate. You are a good one.

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Scott's avatar

I can relate to this post a lot more than I thought I’d be comfortable with. I’d say I’m fairly high functioning then I read something like this and a lot of blocks slide into place.

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Laura Crossett's avatar

Every few years a doctor suggests that maybe I'm actually bipolar 2 rather than depressed and anxious. Whenever I read about people with actual mania/hypomania, I think, Nope. Hang in there.

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Humma Kavula's avatar

For what it's worth, I scream RZA's verses too on liqud swords even when not in mania .

You got this mate. There is no precedents with brain weirdness. You never know, you might level out. Weirder things happen

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Alex Goldman's avatar

4th chamber is the best song in any Wu Tang album, and I’ll fight anyone who disagrees. Thanks for the encouraging words. Also mad respect to Humma Kavula. A decent character that didn’t get his due

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Humma Kavula's avatar

Dude was onto something with his campaign slogan.

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Andrew W's avatar

Was it the Demi Quest episode of bigsofttitty.png? Because that made me laugh harder than I think maybe anything else ever has, ever. The idea of Demi wandering around their apartment going "gay gay gay" in an old man's voice... hoo boy.

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Skully Calloway's avatar

I have bipolar type 1 and so I tend to have manic or hypomanic episodes. It doesn't happen so much now, similar to you, though thankfully not as long as yours lasts. I'm sorry you're dealing with that, hope it goes as smoothly as possible.

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T P's avatar

Hypomania can be such an absurd, annoying experience, and personally, I think I've been in the post-hypomania slump for about the last two weeks. I'm glad you at least got a lesson from the last time, trying to hold onto the feeling with adderall -- cuz same, literally same, like 2 weeks ago same. Not that the feeling will be better, but it may pass by shorter without resistance (hopefully!)

Wishing you well dude! Hope you have a better week

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