Funny Book about Bipolar

[lVlad]

Alright. Theres this book called the Hypomanic Edge. You can even read it on google.

Hypomania in bipolar is the extreme mood swing where you are talkative, energetic, EXTREMELY euphoric. It is just a degree below mania (mania includes hallucinations, more severe delusions). Anyway this guy says that Hypomania is a good thing even though he admits its just a state a tad bit lower than a motivated crystal meth user.

I wonder if this book is going to cause bipolars to go off their meds and ultimately commit suicide (what goes up must come down)

[HecticCircleCrap]

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[DareDevilGuy]

Lots of bipolars who go into the stages of mania believe it's a good thing. It's not until they go into hypomania that they lose grip of reality. Lots of bipolar people already go off their meds in this period, I doubt the book wil have any impact at all.

[lVlad]

At 6/22/09 05:32 PM, DareDevilGuy wrote: Lots of bipolars who go into the stages of mania believe it's a good thing. It's not until they go into hypomania that they lose grip of reality. Lots of bipolar people already go off their meds in this period, I doubt the book wil have any impact at all.

you got it backwards though. Hypomania is the less severe form (hypo meaning little not hyper) mania is the severe form where you lose reality views