7 Ways You Can Help if I’m Having a Euphoric Bipolar Mania Episode

The Health Cards Help Prevent and Manage Mania

Help Your  Friends and Family Help You Manage Bipolar Mania

Here are just a few of the tips included in the Mania Section in my Health Cards Treatment System.  The cards create a list of all of my mania symptoms and what the people who care about me can do when they see that I’m starting to get manic.  It’s my responsibility to tell the people around me how they can help. It’s not innate for them! 

1- Know the signs and symptoms of what you see when I start to get manic.

2- Remind me that I wanted you to tell me if I seem to be too excited.

3- Do not match my behavior. In other words, if I say let’s go drink some hard cider and it’s 3PM, it’s a [ Read More ]





Manic Depression Mania: SpInNing into butter..

There is an old saying I remember from my childhood called ‘spinning into butter.’ It means things get so out of control, the milk just whirls and whirls around until it becomes a solid mass of butter!

Mania is like spinning into butter- that’s for sure.  The name Manic Depression was used for so long because it’s an apt description for bipolar in most ways- though we now know the illness is so much more- but… the mania is so dangerous in that it can wreck your life very, very quickly.

If you feel you’re spinning into butter- it can be from anxiety, doing too much, other triggers or… simply from a hypomanic or manic episode.

What is the next step? Make yourself sit down and take an honest evaluation of where you are.  If you’re manic, or starting to get manic- now is the time to take action- not creative action- but manic stopping [ Read More ]





Posted on August 4th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Mania

Shh.. it’s a secret I even want to keep from myself!

I’m slightly manic. I’ve always found it very easy to admit to myself and others that I’m depressed. It’s not that way with mania. Mania is so secretive. I get the little voice that says..

- Maybe you’re just happy! – Maybe this is a good day which is why you’re getting a lot done. – Maybe it’s caffeine- considering that I drink mostly decaf, I doubt that.

The truth is that I am manic when I think I’m manic.

I created my Health Cards Treatment System in 1999 and since using it, I’ve done  a lot better mania wise. It still sneaks up on me- that is for sure, but the information  I have on my Health Cards reminds me what my brain says when I’m hypomanic.

- Julie, you’re just creative. – Julie, you just sent in a book proposal- anyone would be happy!

It’s all untrue. I’m slightly manic and I have [ Read More ]





Manic Grandiosity

When my partner Ivan got really sick in 1994, he told me he believed he was a genius. This upset him a lot because there was a part of him who knew this was an odd thing to feel, but the other part believed it. When he got so ill he could no longer have a coherent conversation, he definitely thought he knew more than most people.

Grandiosity is characterize by a person truly, truly believing that they are better than everyone and they make sure people know it! I remember being manic once and looking in the mirror and thinking- I am more beautiful than every person I know! That is manic grandiosity at its best! Manic grandiosity is very different from narcissism. The grandiosity that comes with mania is episodic- in other words it is ONLY there during a bipolar disorder mood swing. Narcissism is [ Read More ]





Bipolar Disorder Euphoric Mania

Bipolar Euphoric  Mania Symptoms

An extreme desire for

- sex with no thoughts of the consequences

- spending with no thought of the cost

- travel – no matter who you leave behind

- creative projects where you stay up all night with an ‘amazing idea!’

- quick results-  the manic person finds ‘slow’ people very annoying

- talking with strangers

People with bi-polar euphoric mania also experience:

- less need for sleep with no tiredness the next day

- excessive ideas that just feel so wonderful they have to tell everyone about them!

- an general sense of well being that is hard to describe unless you have experienced it!

- inability to let others talk

Have you ever had bipolar euphoric mania?  I have! Julie

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Bipolar Hypomania- a few weeks ago….

It’s 11:45 in the morning and I’m at the library writing my latest book. When I woke up this morning I called my friend Janea and told her what I’ve been doing. She said, “Julie, are you in a mood?” I said, “Oh yes, the mania is dogging me. That’s for sure. But I have it under control. I just can’t figure out where it’s coming from.” This conversation is amazing for two reasons-  it’s the first time that Janea has specifically noticed that I’m up and said something about it. I’ve been teaching her about bipolar disorder for three years. It really can take that long for people to understand that being manic is very, very different from being happy or amped up on caffeine.

Secondly, it’s amazing because I admitted that I was slightly manic and even thought I felt embarrassed that [ Read More ]





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