Posted by linkadge on November 7, 2009, at 12:00:31
In reply to Re: one *big* danger of hypomania, posted by Rosy Crucifiction on November 7, 2009, at 10:22:35
>Again, I have confusion here. I have been very >high functioning and "should" be able to >maintain that.
Perhaps high functioning was the wrong phrase to use. When somebody with a psychiatric / neurological illness is high functioning they are functioning very close to those without the illness.
What I meant was....when people have hypomania they come across as being notably more energetic, hard working and optimistic than a normal person.
As such they tend to take on more than they can really handle. This period is often followed by depression where the individual functions notably worse than an average person.>So is the high functioning hypomania or >euthymia? All I know is ADs tend to produce more >of the high functioning affect and have never >reached a level of long term stability.
Some people think that ADs will give them an edge above normal functioning. I think this type of thinking is more common in bipolar indivuals. Normal depressives just want to get back to normal. Manic depressives get better and then want to be better still. Again, its the whole loss of insight and ballance.
One thing to remember is that the brain is still working during periods of rest. It is working to reflect on what was done so that it can be done more efficiantly in the future. This period of reflection is also necessary to think about the overall direction in ones life and to anticipate potential problems.
This insight is lost in mania. The goal directed behavior produces tunnle vision which can result in things falling subtley falling apart at the seems and thus setting an indivudal up for a more severe depression.
I have a hypomanic (pentacostal -not that it matters but..) friend that opened a buisness. At first it seemed remotely plausable, but over time it became more and more apparent that it was destined to fail. Most indivuals would have pulled the plug long ago, but this person believes that the buisness is God's plan and therefore won't quit. This indivudal has such unrealiastic optimism that the mounting debt and lost employees just doesn't give the hint. There is just a loss of logical thought.
Don't get me wrong, its good to have a dream but...
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