<story><title>Chronic mania and persistent euphoric states</title><url>https://srconstantin.github.io/2020/07/29/chronic-mania.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reilly3000</author><text>Its really important to understand that mania is not optimism, positivism, or much of anything positive really. Its a state of euphoric destruction for bipolar folks, and chronic mania seems to spread those patterns over the balance of a lifetime. It is a disorder, and it benefits from treatment. Its not fun for anybody except for the manic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erokar</author><text>Mania is debilitating, that&amp;#x27;s one of its diagnostic criteria. The milder hypomania can be both productive and pleasant for some though.&lt;p&gt;It can be useful to think of bipolar mood and behaviour along two axes: depressed vs. elated mood and low vs. high energy levels. Sometimes people with bipolar can be both depressed and energetic, a so called mixed state. Some manic episodes will be energetic and accompanied by an elevated mood of optimism, joy and even ecstasy.&lt;p&gt;I agree that full blown mania needs to be treated.</text></comment>
<story><title>Chronic mania and persistent euphoric states</title><url>https://srconstantin.github.io/2020/07/29/chronic-mania.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reilly3000</author><text>Its really important to understand that mania is not optimism, positivism, or much of anything positive really. Its a state of euphoric destruction for bipolar folks, and chronic mania seems to spread those patterns over the balance of a lifetime. It is a disorder, and it benefits from treatment. Its not fun for anybody except for the manic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__s</author><text>My sister&amp;#x27;s bipolar. Many people (including her) enjoy her manic behavior. It can go a bit too far at times, but there&amp;#x27;s a learning process on how to calibrate it. You work with what you have</text></comment>