
Sexual impulsivity and promiscuity can be common during manic episodes. Insomnia is common in mania, which can lead to exhaustion and fatigue masked by ongoing energy.
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Insomnia:īeing so full of energy, excitement, and big plans can keep a person up at night. For the majority, however, mania is a brief period full of exciting initiatives but zero follow through. Some of the greatest and most creative minds in the world are also minds that have bipolar disorder. Mania is most well known for its delusions of grandeur, which is most often illustrated through a series of “brilliant” ideas. Messy handwriting and erratic, hyper movements are common as well. Their brain is moving too fast for the rest of their body to catch up. It isn’t uncommon for people who are experiencing mania to have slurred speech, jumbled speech, or irregular speech. In mania, the brain is moving at hyperspeed, sometimes too fast for motor functions to catch up with. Slurred speech isn’t exclusive to intoxication on drugs or alcohol.
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Contact the O’Connor Professional Group for a treatment consultation, plan management, and much more. If behavior becomes exceedingly erratic and causes harm or a threat, a treatment intervention is needed. If you notice these symptoms arising and you are aware of your bipolar disorder, or a bipolar diagnosis in someone else, it is important to monitor these symptoms. These are some of the symptoms common to mania. Part of the issue with recognizing manic behavior is being too far into a manic state to recognize the difference between the delusion of normalcy and the reality of mania. Since bipolar disorder also includes depression, mania is heightened by a feeling of escape, having made it out of a depressive episode.

People living with bipolar disorder have reported feeling like they lose track of time or black out when they are in a manic state. At worst, mania can include delusions, often of grandeur, risky behavior, substance abuse, and hyperactivity. Mania is an extended period of time which includes high levels of energy, excitement and confidence- at best. Bipolar I disorder, on the other hand, will include very developed episodes of mania which can last for weeks or months.

Bipolar II is more well known for hypomania, or a subtle version of mania. Bipolar I and Bipolar II vary in their demonstrations of mania. Both are characterized by fluctuating moods which can range from moderate mood swings to such severe mood swings a person can seem like they are split in two. There are two types of bipolar disorder, bipolar I and bipolar II.
