Warning Signs of Mania
Your loved ones may notice these signs before you do. If they say something to you, now would be a good time to pay attention.
- Increased energy
- Decreased sleep
- Little fatigue
- An increase in activities
- Restlessness
- Rapid, virtually nonstop, often loud and emphatic, seemingly driven, and usually hard to interrupt speech
- Incoherent speech
- Clang associations: the association of words based on their sound, a type of rhyming if you will
- Lack of insight
- Inappropriate humor
- Inappropriate behaviors
- Impulsive behaviors
- Financial extravagance
- Grandiose thinking: thinking you're superior to others
- Little to no sexuality or Hypersexuality: obsession with sex
- Distractibility
- Creative thinking
- Flight of ideas: continuous flow from idea to idea during speech
- Disorientation
- Scattered thinking
- Irritability
- Excitability
- Hostility
- Feelings of exhilaration
- Inflated self-esteem
- Hallucinations (not present in hypomania)
- Delusions (not present in hypomania)
- Paranoia (generally not severe in hypomania)
- Increased religious activities
I know these signs all to well.
Ah yes. I see many that apply to me on your list.
My T has used the word manic but mostly "elation" and recently we've talked about bipolar II but I'm not sure that is a diagnosis yet.