I understand that this is considered a mental health disorder and I’m sure there is a reason why but Mayo Clinic says that mania is characterized by an extremely elevated and excitable mood. It sounds to me like I would enjoy being elevated and excited. Now I totally can see why depression would suck in the case of bipolar especially oscillating between the two, but unipolar mania is a thing too.
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Another thing no one has mentioned is that mania has negative long term impact on health. The body has to manage the relationship of chemicals that are navigating and permitted. Each time a person experienced mania, their brain is being flooded with hormones and chemicals that simply cannot be tolerated in excess. The unchecked survivors of said condition lose much of their cognitive function as the brain blood barrier is regularly compromised, and the effectiveness of their bodies adaptations reduces. This is why the episodes becomes more frequent and why the depressive episodes worsen as well.
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