Posted by SLS on February 6, 2012, at 7:52:08
In reply to Re: does caffeine mimic or exacerbate bipolar?, posted by papillon2 on February 5, 2012, at 21:38:25
> > > I know someone who gets caffeine-induced mania.
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> > What are the symptoms of this mania?
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> > - Scott
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> The noticeable ones to me (as someone with unipolar depression) are speaking very fast, speaking inappropriately, strange conversations that go all over the place and are like a never-ending monologue, increased self-absorption and being very animated. Additionally, although she is confined to a wheelchair due to unsteadiness, she will refuse to stay in her wheelchair and will keep getting up and moving around. She self-describes is as being manic/hypomanic; nurses and people with bipolar disorder seem to pick up on it quickly.Gosh. That's the real thing. I would not have thought caffeine as being capable of doing that. It just goes to show you how each of us is uniquely wired.
Thanks.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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