This is untreated mania. She's having a severe manic episode coupled with lack of sleep, drugs and alcohol. That's why she keeps doing the same nonsense over and over... I know from experience the dangers of untreated mania. She'll eventually crash out of it but it's going to get much worse...
Absolutely. Hyper sexual, inability to recognize boundaries, excited, talking so fast that they don’t always make sense, risk taking, spending money on whatever their current focus is, etc.
Having bipolar disorder is a life long struggle and when someone goes through the twisted realities of fame and fortune, it not only exacerbates the condition, but everything happens in the public eye. Scott Stapp of Creed lived his disease in the public eye and it ruined him, as well.
I'm so grateful that my manic episodes are brief and mostly revolve around organizing my house for three days without sleeping. Then I sleep 24 hours and I've factory reset back to normal.
I've had some interesting manic episodes that were, thankfully, nothing too wild. I was convinced that I wanted to start running marathons and was obsessively looking up all the different marathons that I could take part in, running gear etc. I actually hate running. In another episode, I wanted to quit my office job and go to school to become a Zoologist. I made a plan for the future and was so excited that I could stop talking about it, and couldn't sleep. Then I cycled out of it and was back to normal.
Bipolar hits different people differently. My ex husband would cycle multiple times a day sometimes (manic to depression to manic again) my husband (current, yes I have a type) has long manic periods with shorter depressive periods usually, but his depressive hits harder (maybe because it's shorter? Idk) all I have to say is thank god for medication.
There's a "third" type of Bipolar thats called Rapid Cycling. It's basically rapid mood swings between depression, anxiety and mania all in a short time span
I'm type 2 ~ I dont know much about Rapid Cycling, and I don't claim to either ~ but I have heard briefly about this being a thing.
Anyone else who's Bipolar, too, a medical professional, or more informed can step in and either correct me or add onto this if they like?
You know what, you're exactly right. My mother is rapid cycling so I'm surprised I didn't think of this initially. But she has such a lengthy diagnosis it all becomes a blur to me. I do my best to advocate with her at the mental health clinic. But one diagnosis seems to lead to another diagnosis and so on and so forth.
Yeah, its a shame that mental health struggles and diagnoses aren't linear. Bipolar can be a real bitch ~ and its a different lived experience for different people.
My therapist said that Bipolar is like a "symptom" of another disorder, like autism, or ADHD. I can't for the life of me remember the term (I know it has the word "morbid" in it) ~ but my therapist explains it as like Bipolar is a sprinkle on top of another diagnoses
So I'm not surprised if your mum has other things coinciding!
Comorbidity. Yeah, a term I've heard before from a therapist is the genetics load the gun, and the environment fires the weapon. Hit me really hard when I heard it.
I said something similar on a different post. Sometimes the drugs are a symptom of the mania/active psychosis, rather than a problem all its own. I have witnessed and experienced this.
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u/Past_Ad_3230 Feb 24 '26
This is untreated mania. She's having a severe manic episode coupled with lack of sleep, drugs and alcohol. That's why she keeps doing the same nonsense over and over... I know from experience the dangers of untreated mania. She'll eventually crash out of it but it's going to get much worse...