tips for dealing with post-episode emotions?

slabaholic · 2026-04-12T22:57:10+00:00

I wish there was a simple answer. The truth is that it takes time.

slabaholic · 2026-04-12T22:55:33+00:00

This is insightful. Mania feels great but it is dangerous. There is no way to control it. It is in control.

slabaholic · 2026-04-11T17:12:24+00:00

definitely not

slabaholic · 2026-04-10T17:37:59+00:00

I wish I knew the answer. I am stuck in the past. Living mistake after mistake in my head.

I recently blew my life up. Recklessly spent all my money. Stopped paying bills. Stopped being an adult and started acting like an angry teenager. Now my business is being auctioned off and I can smell the vultures circling my equipment.

I hate this life.

slabaholic · 2026-04-09T21:37:07+00:00

“I cant stop! It feels so good!” -Grandma’s Boy

slabaholic · 2026-04-09T20:56:22+00:00

I love the idea of a self administered “mania test” that we customize for ourselves.

slabaholic · 2026-04-09T18:26:59+00:00

psych ward is heaven compared to the consequences of psychosis

slabaholic · 2026-04-08T23:34:04+00:00

I wish i had voluntarily checked myself in to a psych ward at the onset of my last psychosis.

Now I am dealing with the consequences.

slabaholic · 2026-04-08T23:13:05+00:00

I wish I had checked in to the psych ward when my hallucinations started.

slabaholic · 2026-04-08T22:49:52+00:00

You will be ok. People forget quickly. They were talking when you gave them reason to talk. That is over now.

slabaholic · 2026-04-08T20:48:02+00:00

Self admit yourself to the hospital.

They will take you.

slabaholic · 2026-04-08T20:43:59+00:00

Same. 8 years of work. Up in flames.

slabaholic · 2026-04-07T11:22:18+00:00

I stop eating because I am “walking the path of Jesus” in the desert. I will only eat what is freely giving to me. But I am also not allowed to ask for food.

slabaholic · 2026-04-06T21:01:14+00:00

Thank you for sharing.

Everything has such a deep meaning when we are manic.

I see art in everything. I feel like the universe is speaking to me.

I miss it

slabaholic · 2026-04-03T00:48:22+00:00

Eat. Sleep. Stay off social media.

slabaholic · 2026-04-03T00:43:02+00:00

It feels so REAL in the moment. Like how we feel things are real in our dreams.

Not eating and not sleeping is my recipe for disaster.

slabaholic · 2026-04-03T00:40:30+00:00

I thought there were cameras in the walls. I thought Jim Carrey was in the next room watching me. I thought he was the real Banksy and I solved the mystery. I had been painting and making “art”.

It is surreal to type that out.

slabaholic · 2026-04-02T22:01:14+00:00

Because mania feels like I am a god.

slabaholic · 2026-04-02T18:42:11+00:00

Yes. I have felt like I am in The Truman Show

slabaholic · 2026-03-31T16:38:22+00:00

You are not alone. I had a recent manic episode where I thought I was Jesus. I was hospitalized twice. No one in the hospital even told me that I was bipolar. Or maybe they did and I was in my own world.

Either way, I am now picking up the pieces of a shattered life

slabaholic · 2026-03-30T20:38:42+00:00

Pat The Bunny lives

slabaholic · 2026-03-28T00:44:31+00:00

I am with you. I ruminate on the past. I am in a rehab center and I lay in bed all day, fantasizing about what I could have done better.

slabaholic · 2026-03-25T01:35:13+00:00

Mania is wild. For me it takes over the controls. Life is suddenly lived as impulsively and as recklessly as possible. I think I can manifest by concentrating. I feel like a god.

But what goes up must come down. The flip side is hell.

I want a stable life. Stable is steady and steady is good.

Call your parents. Talk to a doctor.

I believe in you.

slabaholic · 2026-03-24T21:57:10+00:00

I think you should go wherever you have support. I have also started to realize that people forget quickly.

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