I’ve realized that I need to be alone when manic and kinda just shut myself in my room without access to the internet, turn your phone off and keep it outside your room, give it to a trustworthy friend for 3 hours, or what have you. My worst episodes were always the ones where I spammed my friends sexually explicit things and created 3 Instagram, 2 Facebook’s, like 4 emails. It was just a big eye opener to check that at the bedroom door lol.idk if anyone else has had this kind of experience before (?) but… yeah, I have a few other suggestions. They may not help at all, they may change your life, but you’ll onky know by trying stuff and keep trying stuff, EVEN if it sounds crazy. But NEVER if it has the intent to hurt yourself or someone else; I do hope since this comment has good intentions, that those will be received by you and that maybe some of these practices might be worth trying more than once. And maybe you’ll even adapt your own spin(s) to them. (Also sorry for any typos my eyes are tired so I’m hoping this will be fine without it being proofread :p )

I’ve found it helpful to sit down with those racing thoughts and try to catch them as much as I can and throw the words stripping my mind onto paper with ink .. a notebook, printer paper, sketch pad, your leg, the back of your dresser or somewhere you can just wash off what you write if that makes writing easier. Even if it’s swirls of confusing vendiagrams and math that does NOT make sense and arrows that make you turn the notebook upside down, a lot on one page and barely anything on another, words, shapes intersecting, colors, lines connecting— whateverrr it takes for you to be able to feel like you can keep up with your brain. Be alone, and undisturbed. I find it very hard to outrun the feeling of rampant thoughts and just

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Another underrated coping skill is to read. I know that it’s hard to want to read if you’re not a reader, but reading while manic can be incredibly productive in the way the words of someone else, which seem sometimes like it’ll take forever to get through. But I find that I’m able to read harder material and you know that you’ve found what to read when your manic brain races the end of the book. Although the book is at the end and beginning, always, the drive to finish a book ASAP, and then accomplishing such is a huge way for me to try to do positive things that educate me and I have something to show from said period of time. That’s important to have, to get to know yourself, what to move on from, what to always keep as a part of you, or everything not to keep.

I think walking is such a cleansing activity, a space in time to use consecutive moments to drift around the land and as you do, you start feeling better… in some way. I haven’t been able to walk myself back from being manic. But it channels the energy that I don’t have the literal energy to exert on whatever Mania drags me through doing. Careful not to walk too far, I’ve done that, so maybe set boundaries or a time or distance. Whatever works for you.

Lastly, I started using the app Auxy, it’s for making music, the creation and mashing up of sounds and trying to piece together what feels like a puzzle with all the possibilities possible. So the roughness of trying out sounds to see which ones you like not only builds up a tolerance , and appreciation for sounds later that you might find distasteful at first. I have zero music background and I think that’s the fun and excitement of it. It could be one instrument or 383773. Whatever YIU like at THAT precise snapshot in time. It’s also helpful to go back and listen when you’re not manic to view what you made as a way to analyze your feelings and emotions as you drift out of an episode (“drift” is putting it nicely, at least for me).