Based purely upon my TA posting/persona, do you associate Hypomania/Mania with me, at all?

[Mr.G]

Short answer:

I am wholly unqualified to diagnose in you, said elevation. But to answer your question, if forced to pick, I would say it is possible.


Long answer:

If we assume, for just a moment, Hypomania/Mania is in fact an accurate descriptor/frequent behavioral characteristic of you in your personal life, I can only imagine how this mood/elevation could be quite challenging, at times.

Honestly though, my instinctive reaction to your posts is more a marveling of your energy, rather than a diagnosis of mood disorder.

Reading your posts inspires me to develop myself along the lines of: creativity, energy, thoughtfulness, humor, communication via written language, appreciation of the arts, and to continue to develop a broader knowledge and understanding of the wide world.

Yours very truly,

Mr. G

[Celestia]

Haha I missed these posts ^_^

[Dna8]

Given that members have taken time to post in this thread, it is only courteous that I make some elaboration.

In the context of my engagement with the public mental health service, I have never been formally diagnosed with any form of Bipolar disorder (that is to say, never has a psychiatrist entered mein into the system as, "Bipolar").

References to Bipolar, however, litter my formal psychiatric file, in varying mode. Put short, it has always been leitmotif.

I have certainly never experienced mania.

And it is likely that I have experienced hypomania.

Kindest regards,

Dna8.

[Trouble]

Yes. However I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing. So long as it's not a symptom of bipolarness.

[FinalFlash]

I think you're batshit crazy. And I wouldn't want it any other way.

[Trouble]

For more information, you would have to explain specifically how your mental illness has affected your personal life.

[Dna8]

For more information, you would have to explain specifically how your mental illness has affected your personal life.

On account of my genes, I was born with a vulnerability to that construct of ours we name mental illness - vulnerable, in the meaning that I would be more likely than the majority of people to develop (and this notion of development is another construct of ours) psychiatric (construct) and, or, psychological (construct) illness.

I distinctly remember, being intellectually and, if I may recall so, eloquently aware, even in childhood, of the thoroughness of my introspection. I can describe to you how, one childhood afternoon, my brother and I, along with our mutual male NZ Indian, Hindi and English speaking (I am not making his heritage up - I am being truthful) friend, had been engaged with the latter's Sega Megadrive in the latter's bedroom, and how, while my brother and my South Asian friend were manipulating their respective game consoles in a bid to knock out the other's pixelated fighter, and while they were bantering and referencing the television screen and the present..

... I was engaged otherwise, my friend.

You wouldn't believe, with what proficiency, then as now, I've maintained silence in the presence of others. I take up less physical space than a man my same exact weight. And I have known how it can be like when one fumbles delivery of their spoken words for lack of practice.

My transition from early to post adolescence was dominated by a matter of biography, and I entered adulthood having had certain aspects of my psychosocial development compromised. Before university I had always had uno or dos close friends among the acquaintances, but after, I have had none (at least, none whom I can rep. comment).

Having expressed all that, now that Rome is nicely burning, Shirley I can fiddle?

I have been seated opposite a beautiful female colleague in a populous call centre, and sung to her, softly but prettily, when there had been no calls.

Once, I didn't in fact read a book, but my analysis of it earned me an A+, and an invitation to a well-to-do international tertiary essay contest.

I oblige my whimsies more vigorously than most and when I build a psychic wind, I tell you, I have been known to hunt for magic mushrooms in the dark without a source of light.. write love letters of notable quality - one was so lovely that my recipient risked her employment by replying to me with her number (she was a rehab clinician).. render myself homeless because regarding falling asleep, ceiling is a poor man's night sky.

[Dna8]

@ Akira

I came, I read your post, I obliged.

[Moje ime]

Hypomania - yes. Especially with your voice messages.

[War Chef]

If you want brutal honesty, I did think you might be mentally ill at first, just because most of your photos were at home, which implies you can't function in society. But your posting history says you are normal, just a tendency to over think. I'd think you would get exhausted at some point.