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Abstract
I'll discuss some of my experience as a person with Bipolar Disorder (or Mania-Depressia), and how I deal with the various periods of "hypomania": periods of strong excitement and feelings of self-grandioisity.
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The topic in question is Hypomanias, which while containing the word "mania" are actually below mania, and the person is still in control to some extent, and, with some awareness, may realise he's in a bad mental condition.
Hypomanias are a variation on Clinical Depressions. The latter are not everyday "I am depressed." depressions, but rather a feeling that one is bad, and being consumed with guilt, with a tendency of being less communicative and less able to perform one's responsibilities.
I probably have Mania-Depressia (or "Bipolar disorder") because I had a single "Great Mania" and a few shorter manias, because I have frequent Hypomanias, and because I have been clinically depressed or clinically anxious at the time. So I'm writing about this from experience.