Bizi the little need for sleep is not just now - it has been this way maybe a month... I don't track it but it's been this way for weeks I can say that. Totally right about mania happenign for no reason it happened to me in spring and it went very fast, like it hit faster than I knew what was happening but I was a mess.

Maybe as long as the loudness... maybe one started a bit before than the other but probably not far apart. The parents shushing me is how i noticed the loudness and at the time they said AT LEAST two weeks - which was as far back as they could remember - it might have been more. I certainly couldn't remember. I asked because it was getting old getting shushed up so much. (Still happening, btw).

Along with that high energy, good mood (but to me just plain good, nothin' stellar), easily very excited and also riled both though -- more vivacious reactions in both cases, but no sulking or depression and no rage or anything.

And one other thing I won't say here. haha.

Oh and occasional spells of thoughts racing but not much.

Activation, definitely. Enough to call hypomania? dunno... who can say, but it seems mild despite the constellation of stuff. I really don't see this being to the point of mania because it just seems too mild to me -- my thinking seems linear enough and stuff -- that and I don't get like super antsy by the afternoon where I feel the need to guzzle alcohol or have someone whack me over the head.

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p.s. I excluded the swim stuff here, becaus that is more an ongoing thing not just something that happened to get past, plus I've had to research things / wanted to to try and make it work. Bit of disappointment also normal because I got really hyped and launched into it full force and maybe the initial hype and rush into things could be a bit not normal for me.