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 a friend with a bipolar gf put it, the “happy/up” that she is during manic episodes is not anywhere close to a “normal” level of happy/up. It’s a beyond the pale, you’re scaring the crap out of everyone around you kind of energy.
Another friend who has episodes of mania does things like run away from home due to extreme paranoia, living out of cars and hotels, calling up friends with extreme requests for cash, and having unprotected sexual interactions with a lot of strangers before coming down. It’s like all of their self-destructive tendencies get revved up by 10,000% and there are no brakes and at the end of the spree they just have a completely wrecked life/body to come home to.
It’s not fun. It’s fucking terrifying.
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