Hmm. I wonder if I have a touch of hypomania. . .

[xiphias]

I think I just talked at a friend for about twenty minutes straight without really letting zir get a word in. . . fortunately, zie is a rather forgiving person -- and was procrastinating anyway -- but I think I ought to keep an eye on that.

It could also, of course, be that it's FINALLY NICE WEATHER. But it seems like a sort of thing to keep track of.

Comments

[jehanna.livejournal.com]

I think the technical term is Spring Fever, and as I've got it too I can hardly blame you for it.

[felis-sidus.livejournal.com]

A lot depends on the number of words per minute, IMO. If you were speaking at your normal rate, then you may well have been doing what I classify as "rambling", which in my case usually results from fatigue, sleepiness, or Spring fever, as jehanna said.

On the other hand, ifitwassofastallyourwordswererunningtogetherandyoutendedtorunoutofbreath, then, yeah, probably a touch of hypomania.

[dancing-kiralee.livejournal.com]

hmmm... I don't think so... at least I think this happens to me and I don't talk so fast I run out of breath, I just get more organized / productive (if I can retain my focus) or more scattered (if I can't)... but it's very hard to tell, as I've never been able to get a diagnoses I can trust.

I've sometimes wondered if xiphias has something like hypergraphia... well, not hypergraphia itself, but he does seem to write in bursts, and at least in this case it corresponds to something that he thinks might be hypomania...

Not that that's a bad thing... I like reading what's produced... and it doesn't seem to be a problem for xiphias.

Kiralee

[felis-sidus.livejournal.com]

The running out of breath thing was a bit of creative license on my part, a little hyperbole in the interests of illustration. But the speaking extremely quickly thing is fairly typical of someone experiencing mania. Even medically, hypomania isn't necessarily considered to be particularly problematic unless it turns out to be the precursor to mania or serious depression, as it sometimes can be for people with bipolar disorder.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's not worrisome. But because I'm under treatment for Bipolar II, I think it's a good idea to track these things, especially as we just recently raised my lamatrogine from 225 to 250 mg/day, and my Lexapro from a total of 110 mg/week to 140 mg/week.