Manic episode of emotions

[KingKittycat]

I am currently experiencing most of the symptoms of manic behavior. I set up an appointment for tomorrow morning at 9 am. I noticed the signs hours after. Please any advice?

[bowJim]

Hi,

For me, my thoughts are it is positive that you are recognising the mania or manic periods, do you have the swing depression, or do you notice the swing?

[KingKittycat in reply to bowJim]

I have had poor sleep, new ideas, racing thoughts, excitement, and overconfidence

[bowJim in reply to KingKittycat]

Hi Kingkittycat,

Try to obtain an assessment of your mental health right now, I found this very simple an easy excercise to check where you are with your mental state now is extremely important, the assessment can be carried out by your psychiatrist but not always carried out at these times, I have had many drug changes, that did not involve an assessment first to establish where my mind was at the time, I now feel this held me back as I did not establish what was going wrong at the time, such as increase in depression, anxiety or trauma, for me the more information I can gather has helped me stablalise and build on my recovery. Best wishes.

[Starrlight]

I have bipolar too and I notice when im manic the same things I would use to treat anxiety works somewhat on mania too. Also indicators are that I get paranoid and people say the things I’m saying sound weird. Whenever I experienced mania I just had to go up on a med or add a med and wait it out.

[KingKittycat in reply to Starrlight]

My psychiatrist should amp up my medicine tomorrow at the virtual visit in the morning.

[bowJim]

Hi Kingkittcat,

I hope your appointment went well today.