I Think I Am Having a Hypomanic Episode as a Result of (Not) Drinking?
Question by RobsTea: I think I am having a hypomanic episode as a result of (not) drinking?
Earlier I thought I had a _brilliant_ idea for social networking being used as a tool to save the world.
Then I stayed at home an stared at my laptop without moving… with really wide eyes, so focused that I’m too busy to do much of the drinking I intended to do to ease the withdrawal from going from tons to less…
also the lack of sleep for nights in a row (3-4 hours?) and vivid unpleasant dreams (I dreamed I was Edward from the Narnia series, and everyone else had been killed, and I had this time-travel thing that I’d overused and was trying to refill it with something that would make it work, but couldn’t and was about to die… and then woke … fast heartbeat, hyperfocused,
also wtf – Narnia? I’m 25 years old! And atheist, what’s that doing in my dreams?
PS: my time travel device involved lip-chap protector. (like, mango flavoured? Or tangerine? Good stuff – good disguise!)
So is this hypomania? What if I hear imaginary music? What if it’s voices?
Hypomania, agitated depression? Depressed hypomania? Mixed state or pure?
Can’t really comment on other symptoms, but there were halos around lights for the last couple days, feelings of guilt and dread interspersed with productive happy chatter (day by day, hour by hour) – cyclothymia? The DTs? Chylamydia? Cytotoxic effects of alcohol?
Okay, this is a guessing game and not to be taken seriously. I won’t take it seriously, I haven’t even really provided you with proper symptoms.
I am thinking hypomania at this point. I am not currently hearing imaginary music. Currently.
If you say “you’re on crack,” you lose too points cause that’s a shitty guess. Annnnd…. go!
*two points, too
music recommendation? or asking me to shut up?
Good guess on the bi-polar, but the drinking is actually quite significant as the symptoms only crop up then. First diagnosis: odd mini-dt’s. accompanied by restlessness, agitation, lack of desire for food. (Okay, they kind of do support manic.)
No laugh on the chlamydia? Funny, no?
Best answer:
Answer by Kerbear
The sounds of silence….
Answer by Nicole
Forget hypomanic. Manic episode. Probably bi-polar with psychotic features.
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