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Crazy Hitch
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#1
I was hypo for quite a while. All the classic symptoms - feeling wired / irritable / lack of sleep / difficulty concentrating.
All of the above was caused by stress of work. I read an article that completely triggered and then angered me and I swear I went from hypo to manic faster than you can turn off a light switch. I didn't know it could happen that fast. I lost all touch with reality. I'm happy to say I'm just hypo now. I just wish I had more of the haha feeling and less of the grrrr now I'm irritated feeling. |
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#2
There are a bunch of things, but one that comes to mind is jetlag. I travel for work sometimes to a timezone that's almost a complete reversal compared to my regular day-night rhythm. It's... not good for my stability.
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#3
I get triggered by balls
I have no idea why, but if I am holding a bouncy ball, or see one, I'm going to be manic to this day I still get triggered by balls |
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Bricks through the window and I think it's time I
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#4
Stress, antidepressants (especially SSRIs), lack of sleep, stress, substance use
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Merlin
is holding onto hope and happiness.
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#5
Positive events in my life. Getting something I really wanted. Focusing excessively on future plans when I expect them to go well, as opposed to poorly.
Lack of sleep. __________________ It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! ---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859. |
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#6
Getting fired up about social justice or spiritual issues.
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#7
Abuse of power. Abuse of people. Spiritual depth. Writing. Advanced mathematics. Complicated work projects. Music.
All of these tend to contribute to destabilization for me. |
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For me its usually a combo of zero sleep and layer on pain from Fibro and PsA .. and sometimes Bipolar just reaches up and slaps the snot out of me
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Merlin
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__________________ It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! ---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859. |
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*Beth*
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#10
Yes, getting overly intense about causes. That will really set off my mania. Sometimes great art or music. Excitement about something I'm creating. But it's hard for me to tell whether the trigger comes first, or the mania is already simmering and gets set off.
I think it's the latter. __________________ |
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Oh, and weather. Thunderstorms especially multiple days in a row will really set off some euphoric mania for me.
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#13
Work stress can be a trigger for both hypomania and depression for me (or mixed). I always feel like I don't have much control over that, so to try to balance it out by keeping a consistent routine in the evenings and going to bed at the same time every day.
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#15
Lack of sleep. This is what happened with my most recent episode. Other times, the lack of sleep is BECAUSE I'm going into an episode. In any case, I have a very strict sleep schedule and two meds for sleep because it's such a huge trigger for me. I take my meds by a certain time (usually) and then I know pretty much when I'll be falling asleep. I give myself a lot of sleep.
I used to work as a manager in my field and that produced way too much stress. I think I had 4 or so episodes during that time and I was, otherwise, just miserable. I have since left that job and moved. I made the decision, 4 years ago, to only work part-time (and not as a manager). It obviously has financial implications for me, but it has helped a great deal with my stability. __________________ Bipolar 1 Lamictal: 400 mg Latuda: 60mg Klonopin: 1 mg Propranolol: 10 mg Zoloft: 100 mg Temazepam: 15 mg Zyprexa 5-10mg prn (for Central Pain Syndrome: methadone 20 mg; for chronic back pain: meloxicam 15 mg; for migraines: prochlorperazine prn) |
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bizi
happines is a decision
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#16
Depovera birth control shot, SSRI's, big changes in meds.
This last hospitalization I was manic or psychotic most of the month of changes. hubby said I came home too soon. Then went to an out patient IOP for 5 weeks and signed off staying that I needed to get back to work. bizi __________________ 150mg of lamictal 2x a day haldol 5mg 2x a day 1mg of cogentin 2x a day klonipin , 1mg at night, 4-5 peri-colace for chronic constipation multi vit,, vit c, at noon, tumeric, caffeine at noon PRN Remeron 15mg at night, zyprexa10mg under tongue, requip2mg. |
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seemingly lost inside her own head….
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#17
Stress and ADs
Luckily my BP is more on the random side of the spectrum, so I don't practice much avoidance. __________________ DXD BP1, BPD & OCPD "The best way to make it through with hearts and wrists in tact, is to realise, two out of three aint bad" FOB... |
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