Posted by Janelle on June 13, 2003, at 18:12:41
In reply to Hypomania?, posted by daizy on June 13, 2003, at 16:50:33
I can only tell you MY particular experiences with both (unfortunately).
For me, hypomania manifests itself as extreme irritability, anger, overreaction to minor things, going off on everyone and anyone, restlessness, aggressiveness. It is NOT like the *mania* thing where one stays up all night, night after night, thinks grandiose thoughts, takes risks and does reckless things, spends too much money, etc. That's considered more along the lines of full-blown "mania". However, hypomania could be these things at a milder level. But I do not get those.
Anxiety on the other hand, could be either in specific attacks (like where your heart starts racing, you sweat, you get palpitations, you think your head will explode, you even think you might die) -- I do NOT get those - or GENERALIZED ANXIETY, where you're kind of chronically agitated, worried, think catastrophically or negatively about everything or anything, you have racing thoughts about bad things happening, and it can escalate to an actual attack as described above.
This is just a LAYPERSON's description, but I hope it helps.
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