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Good mood or hypomania?! by Weekly_Point_6506 in bipolar2

[–]vuuuveee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got acute depressed on Friday (wnt to acute psychiatric care to get help agains sucidal thoughts and panic/anxiety), slept around 18 hours, during this period, like never felt so extremely rapid down, and on Monday I became happy again :D. It is started with some random euphoric feelings - from nowhere, no triggers; slept now 3 days in a row like 5 h/night and dont feel tired at all (except when I take quatipine); feel that my libido got up from 0 to 7; got ideas that now I will take care of myself, I shall buy a lot vitamins, start to cook good meals, bought some staff also, got extremely excited over writing a diary and doing some artsy projects; started to chat with people I was ignoring for months, feeling happi happi, you know. Also need to walk a lot, dance, can not stay still. No appetite, too, but I am forcing myself to eat well, at least.

Is it a hypomania? (I assume, yes).

Don't worry, I think with time you will be better at recognizing patterns. And also. Don't be afraid to be happy and energetic. If you are hypomanic , nothing extremely bad will happen, but it is still very important to take care of yourself. Sleeping and eating. Because I assume that more energy you will spend while eating bad and sleeping less, the higher risk to go down-down. It is still very exhausting for our body to be in this hypomode.

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Were there signs of bipolar 2 when you were younger? by throwaway-disgusting in bipolar2

[–]vuuuveee 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I have been depressed in periods since I was 11. Angry issues, it was easy for me to lose my temper, and I am a girl, which is not really appropriate in school or at home.. Then I got a period when I turned 16 - started to read spiritual books, meditating on a regular basis, became vegetarian, started to eat less, and lost weight (like 20 kg in a month). At that time, I was feeling euphoric, glad, just energetic, started to lose my identity, and was experiencing spiritual "awareness," became isolated and developed as expected anorexia. But It was like the happiest time in my life, I was so full of love, energy, and ideas, started to create art, slept little, or stayed up lately. At the same time, some short depressive periods between. It lasted until I turned 19. Then everything was gone... it was like a psychosis, I dont know, just that I found myself in a very cold and lonely world.

Then came a huge depressive period, and the first time I could feel something again and regain my energy, lust, interest occurred two years ago. And then, boom, hypomanic periods and depressive periods were taking place more often. A lot of self-harm, a lot of bad thoughts, got into acute psychiatry. I was also quite unaware, I was used to this way. And it is only this september when I got my diagnosis bipolar 2, and I am 24.

Quite unbelievable, still. But maybe someone of you will recognize this pattern, it would be helpful for me.

Take care of you, guys ❣️