Can you still be anxious but suffer a manic episode?

Don't know who'll have some experience with either manic depression or anxiety. I suffer severe anxiety often, it comes in phases and I used to and still sometimes hide it well, like I'll be out in a crowd but dying inside. It usually comes on in Autumn and fades spring/summer but gets worse each time and sometimes lasts longer like this year though I am at least going out.

Manic depression has also been batted around by me and talking to others who've mentioned things. I was piecing some things together today and wondered if I have just sufffered a manic episode that culminated in an overdose. I was doing irresponsible, impulsive, eccentric, obsessive, dangerous things without really thinking of them as that way. But I was still feeling anxious.

Is that posssible? I thought if you had a manic episode you were meant to be confident?

 

mania could set fear in, maybe due to the speed of the thought process, and while you would like to be more confident. your brain is moving to fast for you make proper decisions..

 

I think that you could have both bipolar depression and anxiety. One does not exclude the other, as far as I know.

some meditation might help with the anxiety

if you've got bipolar, you might want to check into some meds

 

I see my doctor today, I'm telling her I want to quit propranolol, it's only been about a month but it makes me so tired and doesn't work for my actual anxiety symptoms which are mostly internal and rarely external. Maybe I get the knot in the stomach sometimes but it's not worth the tiredness which is getting worse, not better.

I'm also meant to be deciding whether I want to try mirtazipine. I don't. It sounds fine on wiki but not on personal accounts on forums or real life. Maybe if it was earlier in the year but I don't have time for another med like that to either not work or make me hurt myself again. Too many personal accounts of it making you drowsy, I need the opposite of that, I'd rather risk something that made me an insomniac as I'm used to that more. I'm not used to passing out on the sofa hours before midnight and even making a cup of tea feeling like a huge effort.

 

maybe check into traditional chinese medicine

it's good stuff

 

I've heard from chinese people that TCM is for peasants.

depression-anxiety is a bit of a spectrum disorder, hard to get one without the other.

Mania can be nauseatingly anxiety provoking...esp when you're up for days at a time.

Relaxation is important, avoid too much stimulation.