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.

[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.