I always seem to have trouble keeping tabs on my mood. I can switch moods so quickly sometimes I don't even grasp that it's happening. I become irrational... So here is a list of symptoms of hypomania, it helps to serve a reminder that you don't usually do these types of things. A great way to protect you or your family from grief.
Hypomania symptoms
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You don't need much sleep.
• You are
easily distracted.
• You are
driven toward accomplishing specific goals (either socially - at work or school
- or sexually) or you are experiencing psychomotor
agitation.
• You have
grandiose thinking. For example, you believe you are better than anyone else at
doing something or that you can accomplish a difficult task in hours instead of
days.
•
You've become excessively involved with pleasurable
activities that have a high potential for painful consequences, such as
unrestrained buying sprees, sexual indiscretions, or foolish business
investments.
Some Expressions of Hypomania
Here are just a few
examples of hypomanic behavior:
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Hypersexuality, which
may take many forms such as making unusual demands on your partner, making inappropriate
sexual advances, having affairs or spending a great deal of money on phone sex,
Internet pornography or prostitutes.
•
Unusual irritability, excitement, hostility or
aggression.
•
Behaving inappropriately; for example, making crude
remarks at a dinner party.
•
Spending recklessly, such as buying a car when you can't
possibly make the payments.
•
Talking so fast that it's difficult for others to
understand.
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Dressing and behaving flamboyantly.
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Jumping from one subject to an unrelated subject while
speaking to someone.
•
Taking chances you normally wouldn't because you
"feel lucky."
