While mania and hypomania have many similar symptoms, like having high energy, rapid thinking. and such. What makes it mania, instead of hypomania. are these differentiating characters:
- lasts at least a week
- severely impaired from normal functioning, feeling debilitated
Medicinenet states it this way, from https://www.medicinenet.com/mania_vs_hypomania/article.htm#mania_vs_hypomania_facts
What is mania and what is hypomania?
- Mania is a severe episode of elevated/euphoric or irritable mood and increased energy that usually lasts at least a week and severely interferes with the sufferer’s ability to function.
- Hypomania is a less severe version of mania, in that it is characterized by somewhat elevated or irritable mood that may more mildly interfere with a person’s functioning to a less debilitating degree than mania.
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My daughter has mania and does things that she wouldn’t do when she’s not in a manic state. For example a couple of weeks ago she ordered pictures from Fast Prints that already had my credit card info from one time when we ordered a few pictures, This time all on her own she ordered probably about 100 to 150 pictures, I didn’t know until the first batch came and 2-3 days later more came, costing me $70 some odd dollars. I’m on a fixed income and this is a huge hardship. I really hope this never happens again,
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