Bipolar Chica's

Your loved ones may notice these signs before you do. If they say something to you, now would be a good time to pay attention.

• Increased energy
• Decreased sleep
  
• Little fatigue
  
• An increase in activities
  
• Restlessness
• Rapid, virtually nonstop, often loud and emphatic, seemingly driven, and usually hard to interrupt speech
• Incoherent speech
• Clang associations: the association of words based on their sound, a type of rhyming if you will
• Lack of insight
  
• Inappropriate humor
  
• Inappropriate behaviors
  
• Impulsive behaviors
  
• Financial extravagance
• Grandiose thinking: thinking you're superior to others
• Little to no sexuality or Hypersexuality: obsession with sex
• Distractibility
  
• Creative thinking
• Flight of ideas: continuous flow from idea to idea during speech
  
• Disorientation
  
• Scattered thinking
• Irritability
  
• Excitability
  
• Hostility
  
• Feelings of exhilaration
• Inflated self-esteem
• Hallucinations (not present in hypomania)
• Delusions (not present in hypomania)
• Paranoia (generally not severe in hypomania)
  
• Increased religious activities