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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As someone with *hypo*manic bipolar, it’s not really that bad at all.
My manic days typically go really well. I’m super high functioning and productive, I’m personable, I tend to call/text a lot. I’m maybe a little bit hyper or extra, it’s possible I’m kinda annoying on those days?, but not enough for anyone to say anything about it.
Typically i don’t even notice it in the moment. It’s usually around the end of the day when it gets to be more like an anxious feeling, and I’ll get things like a clenched jaw and chest flutters and rarely a low grade panic attack as things start to crash…but typically it’ll just kinda occur to me like “oh, huh, i guess I’ve been a little manic today. neat.”
I typically say to my psych that ideally, I’d have more days like that. It’s usually a great day with some mild unpleasant side effects. It can be associated with insomnia, but I get that with depression too.
For people with worse mania, the problems mostly stem from risky activities. You might buy things you can’t afford (this is the closest to danger I get, but it’s like…i might go on Amazon and buy a Lego set, lol), have sex you shouldn’t have, or do physically dangerous things. You might also just be overbearing. You might call or text people and they react “what the hell is wrong with that guy today?”
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