Erm... yeah. Sorry I didn't get back to you yesterday, MDB. Turns out I slept more yesterday than I did on Friday night / Saturday. Which I hadn't considered possible.
Woke up fairly early from an early night and still felt drained all day. I'd hoped that a couple of coffees and a lie down (shortly after I logged on here) would get me in a sociable mood but I just ended up dozing until about 6pm, after which I ate and then fell back to sleep.
I think the lithium is definitely kicking in, as yesterday was like the crash from a hypomanic episode, except softened a bit by the lithium. If you consider the fact I've been sleeping on average three hours a night for a couple of months and doing things like IV'ing heroin repeatedly till I lose consciousness, you can see I was probably due a swing in the other direction energy-wise.
Didn't really speak to anybody all weekend really, and spent most of my waking time yesterday feeling a bit bewildered, sorry for myself, wondering why I'd spent the past few weeks indulging in self-destructive (crazy) behaviour and feeling like a proper Mentally Ill Person. All to be expected with starting treatment when in manic mode really, but I should have said something.
In slightly better news, today was a lot easier than I'd anticipated, and it was good not to wake at 2am with racing thoughts, but getting used to being medicated is probably going to take some time.
So uh... sorry. You didn't miss much though; probably would've acted out and been a tosser if anything. Which really would've bummed everyone out. Especially after a beer or two.