hmmm, surely you can grace me a double negative every now and then?

i said it that way because October mania / hypomania is not frequent in an absolute sense, i seem to be more susceptible to it at this time of year. It has happened several times in the past.

As for my current symptoms, i do not recall saying the Wellbutrin was making me hypomanic. i think i said nervous agitated tense and activating, but even activating does not mean hypomania necessarily, and that is not my case in fact.

(it is really really really hard to describe.)

so what am i saying? feeling carefree, disinhibited, full of energy, motivated, enterprising and joyful - that would be FUN.

THIS (which, just for starters, IS inhibited, drained, tense, anxious, dispirited and emotionally fragile) is NOT FUN.

therein lies the difference. and a big difference it is.

i am sorry for the confusion. it IS confusing.

thank you for caring.

~ waves ~

p.s. of course, i know hypomania/mania wouldn't be "good" in the long run... i was sort of kidding... one can dream?

thank you for the explanation and with these symptoms they seem to present a rather mixed mood as I asked about before.there is a type of hypomania that is not fun in the least...I have had those before...it all gets confusing even for those of "us" who have this disorder.
and normal people are supposed to get it?????
bizi

however as i said before, when you asked, this does not feel like a mixed mood. not agitated depression, not dysphoria, not the not-fun hypomania.

having activating side effects doesn't automatically mean what i'm experiencing fits tidily - or even messily - into ANY "bipolar" mood description.

it's like being a nervous wreck, plain and simple? that happens to lots of people. bad case of, though. and, that is still NO FUN.

now, you could be right... and certainly are entitled to your view, but then we will have to agree to disagree about my "current labeling" right now.

~ waves ~

It was gorgeous!

Thanks for telling us about it Mari. I got to see it before sundown - it was neat seeing this ghostly orb in the dusk sky. Then I went to look at it again after dark of course, in full luminescent splendor!

I am glad you have a better view. I hope you had clear skies and got to see it as well.

~ waves ~

Hi,
It is still hot here. 88 degrees yesterday / Thursday.
It feels all wrong some how.
My impression is that we have more rain than usual too.

unsettled,
M.

It stopped raining and the sun is shining, cold though supposed to be in the 40's for the kiddos tonight...burr!!!!!!
bizi