Manic Like Episode After Massive Trigger? Help!

[FindingMyself88]

I do have calls and emails into my therapist. Sometimes she checks her emails at home and I'm praying she does this weekend. What I haven't emailed her I have wrote down.

@anthony what I mean by manic I guess is some of the symptoms are similar as what someone gets when they are manic. As for the feelings coming up, I only feel safe sharing with my therapist right now.especially after what came up last night.

It all makes a lot more sense after last night. I think I mentioned in my first post that we stayed in a hotel the night after my therapy session. Long story short I had to move 3 hours away in April but didn't want to loose my therapist especially with me moving in August again.

Anyways nothing happened TO me at the hotel but apparently I dissociated or repressed the crap out of what DID happen while we stayed there until last night. And maybe these crazy symptoms was my brains way of dealing? As it came up last night I tried my best to write it down.

I'm unsure as to whether I should send my therapist a THIRD email or just wait to talk to her Monday. My mind finally came down off the "high" but I had flashbacks and or nightmares all night about either what happened Wednesday or also what we talked about in therapy :(.

 

[FindingMyself88]

Due to being so far away from my therapist I won't actually SEE her again until July 6. Even if I could financially and physically make the 3 hour one way trips, she books out weeks in advance. Until this week I was doing so well... why did my mom have to insist on staying in THAT'S hotel? Just because it was cheap :(.

 

[Wondering_Loner]

This sounds like ocd to me. I had the same fear 3 years ago for months and I would interpret my anxiety attacks as hypomania. I even forced them to be sort of euphoric, but it was ll fear in the end.

How long are these risk taking spells. They should be months or weeks long not hours.

 

[recoveringfromptsd]

IMO, it's probably not bipolar. You were triggered. There was a ton of adrenaline in your system....

I agree, adrenaline can be a big driver of manic like symptoms, before I was in the hospital I had a similar event, over a weekend I had so many flashbacks and nightmares that my body was full of adrenaline that I was pretty much a basket case by monday. I may be wrong but I don't think PTSD can bring on a manic episode for someone with classic manic depression. In fact I found the symptoms of Mania actually helped me cope with PTSD, to the point where I even went of my meds before I went into the hospital for a short while because the Flashbacks were not as bad when I was manic, but it did not last, in less than a week I hit the depressive cycle, and remained there, so I went back on the meds.