Author: tearj3rker
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:35 pm
Being bipolar type 1, just judging by your posts, I’d say you weren’t manic. If you were manic (which is a form of psychosis), you’d be typing at a million miles a minute likely with an apparent belief you had some kind of supernatural power. People like that at their sickest dance on street corners naked, or think they’re Jesus. It’s funny when you get more than one of these people with a god-complex in a psych hospital. Things can get very interesting indeed!
Hypomania, which is an elevated mood which can also do damage but isn’t delusional, is more likely than mania. But even that is something isolated to people with bipolar disorder / bipolar spectrum. And for those people, anti-deps generally send them manic / hypomanic if they’re not on a mood stabiliser / anti-psychotic, like lithium or seroquel.
Kinda like what’s been said, when a person comes off anti-depressants their mood swings can be quite rapid and wild, even for people without mild bipolar / bipolar spectrum.
It might be too late, but a person in that state of mind should refrain from making life changing decisions.
Give yourself time! Good luck.
