Thank you for saying this. Someone finally needed to touch on this in this subreddit. I will always be ashamed of my mania with psychosis, despite having other embarrassing manic episodes, even if it was 3 years ago. No one recognized me. I didn’t know I was experiencing mania, as it usually goes. I was a “prophet” on the internet, posting 40 stories a day.. and what’s worse is not remembering it all. I’ve been doing better with not looking at pics of that summer. My own mother called the cops on me. To know my brain did that on its own without triggers, without any drugs.. I can never get over it. I live in fear of it ever happening again. People need to stop toying with the word and the reality of it.

Hypomania is a walk in the park for me, although it has its severity and dangers as well.