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		<title>Reader Question: Bipolar hypomania, dancing and endorphins!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just received the following question from Alixana on how a person can know if an exciting and endorphin producing event can cause mania.  Here is the question and my long answer- I try to keep it short, but nothing with bipolar disorder is short!
Dear Julie,
Thank you for being so honest about your battle with [...]


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		<title>Reader Question: Work and Bipolar Mania</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to everyone for your reader comments and questions-  here is one regarding work and bipolar mania.
Hi Julie,
I have been have episodes where I experience mania, wanting to buy stuff limited need to sleep and the inability to concentrate, focus finish an assigned task. This is a real problem at work as I work at [...]


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		<title>Bipolar Disorder Agitated Mania/Dysphoric Mania</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only difference between Bipolar I and Bipolar II is the type of mania. Bipolar I has full blown mania- Bipolar II has hypomania. Bipolar II never has full blown mania- if it happens, the diagnosis is changed to Bipolar I. People with Bipolar I can definitely get hypomanic as well as fully manic!
Euphoric and [...]


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		<title>Reader Comment:  Bipolar Hypomania</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hypomania is not good- hypomania is a milder form of mania, but it's still mania. Hypomania can be very dangerous.   There can be euphoric or dysphoric hypomania. Hypomania does not have psychosis. 


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		<title>Chasing Bipolar Mania</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you chase mania because it feels like the normal you? 


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		<title>Mania and Sleep Reader Comments</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to everyone for such amazing and insightful comments on the Mania and Sleep blog post. The topic is obviously so important. It really is such a chicken and the egg problem. I can be in bed and unable to sleep and I have to go through my list- am I just wound up because [...]


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