Bipolar Mania

Jon — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:15:37 +0000

I’m starting to feel that, as with everything in life, there is a reason for mania. My hypo-manic mind gets to the point where I can figure out anything. Deep, relevant, important answers to problems. If my wife would let me I could take apart anything, and assemble back in better shape than when it was originally. Most of the time. There’s been a few things over the years that doesn’t go back together, so she keeps me away from most things. But when my mind moves from hypo-mania to mania, as it does for some of us, it’s not a pleasant prospect. The definition of mania is psychosis, or losing the ability to know you’re manic. When this happens, sleep suffers radically. I sleep 3 to 4 hours a night, almost entirely dependent on sleeping pills to even begin to put me down.

But the initial point of this post: When manic, sleep goes away. When sleep goes away the mind loses it’s ability to process as much. The less active mind is therapeutic for the mania. So once again, a reason for everything.

Fall Get-Away

Jon — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:49:07 +0000

My mania is settling down into a more manageable hypomania recently. I’m still not out of the woods, I’ve done some stupid things so far, but it’s getting better. I’m sleeping better, more than 3 or 4 hours a night. Concentration is better, work is easier.

I’m going out of town for a few days, away from computers and even mostly out of cell range. To a place where the cattle far outnumber the people, and the sound of geese and coyotes can be heard all night. It will be great to get away for a while. I’ll try and make another post or two before then.

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Bipolar Mania

Fall Get-Away