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Mania: Symptoms, Lived Experience, and Interactions with Autism

Florent 12/08/2025 No Comments

The manic episode, for all people with bipolar type I, is the logical continuation of the hypomanic episode. Sleep is drastically reduced and energy multiplies. The person seems to behave more and more abnormally. While hypomania can go more unnoticed, the manic episode completely alters the functioning of the bipolar person. The individual appears extremely euphoric, laughs very easily, makes puns, jumps from one idea to another, multiplies projects, has grandiose ideas, and in the most severe cases, may decompensate (psychosis).

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Hypomania: Symptoms, Lived Experience, and Interactions with Autism

Florent 11/30/2025 No Comments

To begin my series of articles on bipolar disorder episodes, I thought about presenting them to you in chronological order, reflecting their cycle. Hypomania is the first euphoric (or irritable) phase of this condition. It sometimes progresses either into mania (in bipolar disorder type I) or into depression. Hypomania — which can manifest in two drastically different ways — is what we’ll focus on in this article. I’ve experienced a large number of hypomanic episodes that turned me into a production machine, a walking factory.

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Bipolar Disorder: Understanding it and Living with it

Florent 11/23/2025 No Comments

After having explored autism in detail in my previous articles, it is now time to talk about my bipolar episodes, following the chronological order in which my cycles evolve. When people think of bipolar disorder, they often imagine someone who is sometimes sad, sometimes happy — someone who simply has mood swings (the definition of a “moody” person, essentially). The reality is far more complex. With bipolar disorder, a person oscillates between euphoric episodes and depressive ones. It is a very serious disorder that requires regular medical care to allow the affected person to function.

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Mania: Symptoms, Lived Experience, and Interactions with Autism

Hypomania: Symptoms, Lived Experience, and Interactions with Autism

Bipolar Disorder: Understanding it and Living with it

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Mania: Symptoms, Lived Experience, and Interactions with Autism