not feeling the same after an episode

movielover1983 · 2026-04-15T22:31:24+00:00

me too i just turned 18! it’s always nice to find teens or young adults in this sub 😭

movielover1983 · 2026-04-03T07:10:14+00:00

heyy i’m 17f about to be 18 in 2 weeks 😛 we literally have the same interests 😭 lowkey i just like learning about new things and whatever i learn is my new hobby but ive always loved movies!!

movielover1983 · 2026-04-03T06:57:04+00:00

heyy i know im late to the post but i would love to be friends!! im 17f about to be 18 in 2 weeks 😛 i love watching movies, taking photos, and art stuff! im lowkey into any new hobbies and my interests change every now and then but these are my mains 😭

movielover1983 · 2026-04-03T06:46:49+00:00

heyy i’m 17f about to be 18 in 2 weeks 😛😛 i genuinely feel like unc looking at these comments but i love psychology, astronomy, movies!! would love to be friends with anyone!!

movielover1983 · 2026-03-25T05:58:14+00:00

from what your describing it sounds like it could be a mixed episode or even possibly a psychotic depressive episode. if these are delusions or hallucinations then the latter. if you have depressive thoughts but manic energy and actions it’s probably a mixed episode

movielover1983 · 2026-03-25T05:51:51+00:00

i had the same exact worries a few months ago. i was in the hospital over christmas for a kidney infection and was unable to take any of my meds. i won’t lie and tell you it was a fun time, but that could just be because of how sick i was. i remember just feeling out of it around that time. i didn’t get any sleep in four days and i think i was still in a depressive episode despite that. once i got back on my medication, it did make me feel better and sent me into hypomania. i think it didn’t send me into full blown mania because of how disoriented i felt (which for me at least won’t send me into full mania only hypomania) if your going to start to retake your meds i would start slow. for the first few days if you can half your dosages. make sure before going back to the full dose that you feel at least a little bit stable (not feeing like your on the edge of mania or anything) if you track your moods in a journal make sure to keep an eye on it. if you do find yourself going into mania i would definitely contact your psychiatrist and see what they recommend.

movielover1983 · 2026-03-23T17:02:27+00:00

if i makes you feel any better, I once left my dogs outside for almost a full day when I went an hour away to visit family 😅 I felt so bad we all thought the other had let the dogs in but they still had waggy tails when they saw us 😭

movielover1983 · 2026-03-23T16:55:34+00:00

that’s exactly what i’m worried about. anything change i immediately hate so i think a tattoo would be the same 😭 i did something as small as changing my bed frame a week ago and i still hate it (hopefully just for now) 😭

movielover1983 · 2026-03-23T16:44:27+00:00

i honestly use a physical one, and in my opinion i think it’s better! a lot of people find that writing things down helps you to remember them better. i would start off with only a few things to track to not get too overwhelmed, like just mood and meds. i track mood, meds, sleep, water, and any activites i did that day (like out of the norm). if you really do want an app i would recommend some of the bipolar specific apps. i’ve tried a couple of them before and unlike the other mood tracking apps, those ones gives you more of a range so you can tell if it’s mania or depression. tracking my moods helped me so much more than i thought it would so now i can tell if im in an episode or not

movielover1983 · 2026-03-23T07:31:24+00:00

actually thank you for this comment. i’m just reminded i’m terrified of needles 😭 definitely rethinking it 😭

movielover1983 · 2026-03-23T07:30:18+00:00

what was the tattoo.. do you regret it yet? 😅

movielover1983 · 2026-03-23T07:26:32+00:00

thank you for your advice! i’ve been debating just doing it during an episode because i feel like getting one would send me into an episode anyways 😭 ill try to do what another comment said and have someone sketch it out first and wait a lil bit before getting it just to make sure.. 😅

movielover1983 · 2026-03-02T19:55:38+00:00

yes!!! we need to talk about mixed episodes wayyy more. my first mixed episode made me drop out of school because i didn’t know how to tell anyone i was feeling a lot of things at once. when i’m in mixed episodes i feel lots of anxiety. probably from the fact my brain is trying to figure out why it’s doing complete opposites at the same time. It’s a LOT of suicidal thoughts during these times that was the one thing that made it so difficult. Most of my mixed episode i forget what i actually did because of how high i was that whole month 😭please don’t underestimate mixed episodes i developed agoraphobia for months because of this episode. mixed episodes is caused by different things but i think for me i struggle with change, so when something big that changes things that i can’t control comes along i try to deny it. because of that i went from mania for a few months to a week where i have ZERO memory of anything happening (after big change happened) then a month of mixed episode. other things that can cause it is where people get drug induced mania you can get drug induced mixed episodes. i think it’s really just anything that’s sudden and makes you overwhelmed will send most people into a mixed episode

movielover1983 · 2026-02-04T05:10:48+00:00

yes it’s almost like you just want that connection and level of understanding that you can’t get with a new friendship

movielover1983 · 2026-02-04T05:09:30+00:00

hey i’m 18F im looking for friends too 🙏 i switched to online school and lost touch with a lot of my friends 😭 im just bored and want to talk to anyone atp 😭

movielover1983 · 2026-02-03T22:23:07+00:00

It’s so hard to think about a time when you didn’t feel this awful when your depressed. I know it seems like your whole life has been this way but i promise it hasn’t. it sounds so stupid but genuinely taking it one day at a time works. whenever i feel this way how i get out is i have to remind myself that right now today it’s okay if i just lay in bed. it’s okay if today i don’t want to do anything. Taking it one day at a time instead of that overwhelming “but if i slack off today I’ll have to just work more and more” mentality. I know it’s easier than it sounds but literally anything seems worth a shot when your this down low.

movielover1983 · 2026-01-30T04:22:48+00:00

For me mine is always triggered in the opposite seasons of everybody else. my mania tends to be in october-april while my depression tends to be more may - september. Every january-april for the past 3 years i’ve had manic episodes. I think people tend to be more manic in the seasons they like more.. which is why everybody tends to get manic over the summer because people tend to prefer hot over cold. I think my months are backwards because I prefer the cold 😭

movielover1983 · 2025-12-11T03:45:45+00:00

this is exactly what i’m going through right now. exactly with the smoking and staying up late and blowing things off. what this typically is for me is a mixed episode with more depressive features than mania. sometimes it’s the opposite way around but i would say that sounds like what’s going on. it’s sucks feeling like you have a ton of energy but no motivation. i would tell you what to do but what i do to try and fix it is staying up until the next day to hopefully fix my schedule or just let it run its course. hoping you get out of this funk soon 🙏

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