idontdothizz
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can somebody explain to me what exactly mania feels like and why it is bad?
can somebody explain to me what exactly mania feels like and why it is bad?
I'm JESUS II motherfuckers!
It doesn't necessarily feel bad at the time (unless the sleep deprivation is setting in), but mania is crappy for many reasons:
* Your ideas are not as great as you think they are. Despite the fact that you think that you have found the keys to the universe.
* You may not think you need sleep, you might not even feel like it- but sleeping is a funandamental part of staying alive/sane. Mania tends to reduce the amount and quality of sleep.
* Your intellectual faculties, despite what you think, are decreased not increased- mania doesn't make you smarter it makes you more suggestible. Believing you're the second coming may feel great ("I'm JESUS II motherfuckers!") but you'll probably feel like a dipshit in a month.
* Manic episodes often lead to a lot of regretible interpersonal-decision-making. I had a bipolar girl who I knew/was friends with walk about an hour, break into my house at like 2am (good thing I'm often awake/smashed at 2am & didn't accidently stab her or something) to proclaim her love for me only to be rejected (I was very polite, as I knew she was crazy and that she would apologise sooner or later- but she did BREAK IN! THE LIGHTS WERE ON! JUST KNOCK!) at which point she walked home, got a BB gun (rural area- so walking round with rifles at 2am is sweet as), walked back to my house and shot in all my windows. She avoided me for like a month then cried when she apologised because she was so embarassed. The reason I still know the girl is because, having experienced drug-induced mania, I know that she would have thought, at the time, it was the best idea in the universe- then everything spirally out of control back in the real world. She's lucky I'm understanding of the mentally ill (being 'mentally ill' myself) and didn't call the cops. Then she would have been fucked- probably ended up with a court ordered trip to the loony-lock-down (yes, it exists) to avoid jail/criminal record and that wouldn't have done her any good. I did/said a lot of stupid shit while manic/coming down off MXE- all of it had consequences, some good, some bad, some terrible.
the male / female thing cant be written off as bullshit
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog.../201105/dopamine-the-left-brain-women-and-men
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18991858
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15722058
i'm no expert but....
It doesn't necessarily feel bad at the time (unless the sleep deprivation is setting in), but mania is crappy for many reasons:
* Your ideas are not as great as you think they are. Despite the fact that you think that you have found the keys to the universe.
* You may not think you need sleep, you might not even feel like it- but sleeping is a funandamental part of staying alive/sane. Mania tends to reduce the amount and quality of sleep.
* Your intellectual faculties, despite what you think, are decreased not increased- mania doesn't make you smarter it makes you more suggestible. Believing you're the second coming may feel great ("I'm JESUS II motherfuckers!") but you'll probably feel like a dipshit in a month.
* Manic episodes often lead to a lot of regretible interpersonal-decision-making. I had a bipolar girl who I knew/was friends with walk about an hour, break into my house at like 2am (good thing I'm often awake/smashed at 2am & didn't accidently stab her or something) to proclaim her love for me only to be rejected (I was very polite, as I knew she was crazy and that she would apologise sooner or later- but she did BREAK IN! THE LIGHTS WERE ON! JUST KNOCK!) at which point she walked home, got a BB gun (rural area- so walking round with rifles at 2am is sweet as), walked back to my house and shot in all my windows. She avoided me for like a month then cried when she apologised because she was so embarassed. The reason I still know the girl is because, having experienced drug-induced mania, I know that she would have thought, at the time, it was the best idea in the universe- then everything spirally out of control back in the real world. She's lucky I'm understanding of the mentally ill (being 'mentally ill' myself) and didn't call the cops. Then she would have been fucked- probably ended up with a court ordered trip to the loony-lock-down (yes, it exists) to avoid jail/criminal record and that wouldn't have done her any good. I did/said a lot of stupid shit while manic/coming down off MXE- all of it had consequences, some good, some bad, some terrible.
Interesting. I've yet to experience this mania phenomenon, since starting to use MXE weekly. MXE does tend to give me a motivational boost, but that energy is always applied to realistic, practical endeavors, not grandiose manic schemes.
Although I never really "hole" on MXE -- it's not a very comfortable experience for me, and I think the magic lies within sub-hole doses, personally.
for those that enjoy high dose MXE trips, do you prefer to redose a couple smaller amounts till you hole or do you like doing one massive dose? which is more effective/efficient?
for those that enjoy high dose MXE trips, do you prefer to redose a couple smaller amounts till you hole or do you like doing one massive dose? which is more effective/efficient?