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Fri, 12-08-2006 - 11:45pm

I'm hypomanic tonight. So I'm on Cloud Nine. It was rather sudden this time--like someone flipping a switch. It is odd, that I'm not seeing any sort of rhyme, reason, or pattern to my episodes. Anyways, I'm just so glad the depression is over for now. I wore hubby out...he's nearly asleep as I type this. It's going to be awhile before I'm able to wind down enough to where I can sleep. We had KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) tonight. If anything triggered this, it was payday. =D I went to Wal-Mart...bought some mouthwash, some lotion, some Kotex pads, and a pregnancy test (yes, another one) just in case.... Oh, and I stopped at the convinence store and bought some chocolate and some Pepsi. *Big Cheesy Grin* Thanks for flying the friendly skies.

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Registered: 09-01-2004
In reply to: tallyn75
Sat, 12-09-2006 - 11:01am

Yeh, having money can be a trigger for me, too.

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Sat, 12-09-2006 - 11:44pm
Hi 'cl-kcisis', I wish to add some of my own information and actions when I was hypo-to-hyper manic before I was diagnosed that I had B/P back on 7-1997. Before that date and started into therapy, I would often get 'mentally wild' and on such a high that I would sometings be out of control in some parts of my life. The fact that I may not have money in my wallet didn't seem to stop me from buying things. I HAD MY PLASTIC, and that set of cards were even better than cash or a check since any store would gladly accept any of them. The dumb thing was that I would often be totally aware that I didn't have much money in the bank, but I'd still go out shopping to find 'things I couldn't live without'. However, as always, the credit card bills would come rolling in on time and I'd have to somehow dig up the money someplace to pay the needed amount. Sometimes I was so foolish that I'd write a 'Ready Cash' check from one credit card to make the payments on my other cards, - - now that was REALLY stupid. My faithful wife very seldom had any idea what kind'a hole I was digging us into financially. But fortunately I owned a business (all lines insurance sales and service) and when I was 'manic' I'd work like hell and for long hours to make the needed money to often dig myself out of my deep debt. To this day I still don't know where a lot of the things that 'I couldn't live without' ended up. But I now know that all that was just a part of being 'manic' and having my B/P disorder. // Now days with the help of all my therapists (I kept being handed off to ones who were better trained to deal with my two complicated disorders) that I've learned to apply what's called "The 24 to 72 hour rule" to anything I want to buy, do, write, or go, etc. That way I had the extra time to think about what my pending actions were so that I could keep out of trouble. Part of the instructions from my therapists have been to write down what I want to do, etc., tape it to my bathroom mirror with the date and time that I'd do that action. If I still wanted or needed to do what I had in mind when that date and time arrives, I may or may not do it. I'm really surprised just how many things I taped up where I let the time and date expire and I no longer wanted to do, buy, etc. That little tool is what my therapists called one of the "Techniques of survival for a person having a B/P disorder." I hope that little 'technique trick helps some of the other readers.. Tommy
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Sun, 12-10-2006 - 11:57am

Tommy,


We sure have a lot of parallels--shopping was (and is, although it's more controlled) my BIG downfall when I was hypomanic/manic.

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Mon, 12-11-2006 - 11:13am

I myself have found that a Snickers and Dr. Pepper will trigger a pretty good hypo manic....then the sugar crash is a pain in the keister, but what the hey, it's fun while it lasts.

tk

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