Posted by tizza on April 6, 2006, at 0:31:17
In reply to Re: Anxiety vs. Mania » blueberry, posted by linkadge on April 5, 2006, at 18:01:47
> I generally think of mania as being a positive experience for the individual, wherase anxiety is purely negitive.
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> I mean there is dysphoric mania, but that is characterized by things like rage and excessive
> energy.
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> There is a difference between can't sleep and don't want to sleep. There is a difference between a mind racing with a flight of ideas and a mind racing with fears.
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> I think that the diagnosis of mania has become clouded these days with all of the factors of drug induced states.
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> I think that you know yourself best.
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> Linkadge
>You have a fantastic way of putting things into perspective, that sounds like severe anxiety to me. I used to think that I might be manic but I never enjoyed a single second of it, which most manic people do sometimes but they just don't realise they have entered an episode because they feel so good and need no sleep. Very preoccupied with grandiose ideas or theories. Paul
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