Hey Ya’ll: I have a suspicion that starting a GLP medication has brought in a bipolar hypomanic/manic upswing.

My questions:
1) Have you experienced this with GLPs and Bipolar, or not?
2) How many days between dose day and what you felt was your onset of “up” symptoms?
3) Did you only feel this while starting the GLP, or on an ongoing basis?

In February I was in a psych ward laying on the floor playing with dust bunnies because I felt like it was the only thing that had equal worth to me.
Now this is my life :)
Never thought this would be possible, but I told myself that I will never give up. I will never be in one of those places again

How do you deal with the constant, unsatisfying hunger as a side effect of medication? I’m taking even less than the minimum dose, but this side effect is making me miserable. I can’t take the meds that could replace this one because of my prolactin levels.
I spend all day exercising and eating, and I end up crying because of it.
The overeating during the day has gotten so bad that it’s seriously interfering with my daily life. I’m preparing for an exam, but I end up overeating at all three meals until I’m practically out of breath.
I spend most of my day trying to digest all the food I’ve eaten, and the acid reflux makes me uncomfortable unless I walk for a long time. As a result, I can barely find time to study.
I don’t even want to eat, but I feel compelled to keep eating anyway. It’s so distressing that I end up in tears.

I feel awful. I feel completely overwhelmed by everything right now. I hurt everywhere.
I feel hot and cold. I can’t stop thinking about all the stuff I need to get done from filing my nails to doing laundry to doing my work. I can’t do anything.
My stomach hurts. I didn’t sleep at all last night. My chest feels tight.
I managed to take a shower and brush my teeth but I just can’t turn my brain off.
Help?

I have struggled with this for years and I can't seem to find a good outlet. How do you all cope with this? Even if I'm not manic I still have such a high sex drive. It causes me to put myself in dangerous situations at times. Thanks for your help.

I feel like my whole life has revolved around relationships and being in love, I feel like I lose everything to love, but without it life feels so empty and meaningless. I can’t stop. But it’s genuinely ruined my life over and over and over again because I put my whole identity and worth and life on my partner and it just goes up in flames everytime and it’s so heartbreaking everytime. I’m so sick of the cycle but I can’t stop and I don’t know if it’s because im bipolar or if it’s just me. It’s like I have a need to feel loved or else im not worth anything at all

Been applying to jobs for a year, all my friends moved out, had 2 startups scam me. Coming off of the worst antidepressant (yk which one) and cold turkey the plant, every passing moment feels like hell. Hypomanic and fucking burnt out, restlessness is the only emotion I feel when I am awake, navigating a mixed episode. Zoned out the entire day, depersonalization most of the time. Mood stabilizers sent me to psych ER. Antipsychotics finally helping me sleep but I feel so jaded. Trying to stay active and keep my sanity but disappointments keep stacking up. Some problems I created myself, some my doctor created by putting me on SSRIs and SNRIs.

Thing is, I am driven as fuck but end up doing embarassing shit all the time. I am not a victim, not trying to be one but it feels like an uphill battle. I know I am good at what I do, peers who praise my work as amazing are the ones with jobs. I have no idea why I can't get hired. The market isn't helping, all fucked up experiences. Working my best to hold my grip on reality when I am the only one in my entire friend group without a full-time job. People are living their lives, I am in my thirties with fucking decade of exp in my field and told multiple times either I am too senior or too junior, fighting for crumbs, entering debt bc I'm unable to control my spending, watching my life fall apart.

Had to go to a community clinic to be prescribed. Most of my friends have moved on with their lives while I wait here staring at rejection emails. I wish I wasn't this sensitive to my surroundings, my brain does olympics with everything, when I am not applying to jobs or working towards something, I fucking blame myself and feel guilty. Self-love only takes you so far. I wish there was a better support system where I don't feel like I am begging for 10 minutes of my friends' time for support. I was there for them, every single time they had problems they came to me but now no one responds even to my basic messages.

Rant over.

Retiring after this year. Also I’m a musician and a top call jazz musician in the region. I’m burned out from teaching music. And sick of the students. I have no empathy. A bit narcissist. Maybe covert narcissist. I want to be done with all the music. I’m gonna quit all the groups I’m in because I’m tired of the people involved. Not sure what I’m going to do next year. Don’t want to be involved with music at all even though it’s all I am my whole life.

It started a year ago when I had hard hallucinations for the first time. For some reason watching youtubers being on edge from monsters and jumpscares really comforts me and I fall asleep really fast. Wake up to the really load jumpscares then go back to sleep.

Anyone else like this? Explanations? Am i weird? Lol

I love watching outer middle show/madd vladd

2026 has been the toughest year of my life so far.

Which is saying something. Coming from life of trauma.

March - Car Accident
June - Surgery
July - Ended 10 year relationship
September - My Dog died
November - Moving back home

Through all of this I lost my insurance. I haven’t had therapy or any of my 11 medications in 4 months.

I’m barely surviving. I know I’m not making the best decisions.

The break up didn’t have to happen. She been with me through many manic episodes and a in patient stay.

I walked away feeling like I was sparing her the downfall I know will happen soon. I love her to much to put her through any more trauma.

But I couldn’t continue. I’m numb.

I feel like I’m on auto pilot.

I have bipolar 1
Anxiety
Depression
PTSD
OCD
ADHD

I am also I self harmer.

I was on State insurance but wasn’t able to keep up with the increased payments. I was out of work for 3 months this year alone.

I tried to get on my works insurance but didn’t have a qualifying life event.

I hope once I move back home. I can get help ASAP. Before the downfall happens.

Has anyone been this long without any medications or therapy??

Reposted with a higher effort title.

Anyone else not know they have a consumer medical report?

Apparently my ONE commitment to a psych ward last year was technically involuntary but after *that* I went directly voluntarily to an alcohol rehab.

And now the DMV had pulled my "consumer medical report" and I can no longer have a license without drug and alcohol testing.

I have NEVER had a dui or EVEN BEEN ARRESTED FOR A CRIME. It is LEGAL for me to drink if I want!!

But noooo, the fucking state is just gonna control every damn thing. 🙄

I’m going to school right now and one of my classmates is claiming to be bipolar. Her reason she’s having trouble sleeping but still feels okay. She’s barely knows the symptoms and when I brought some of them up she was trying to fit them. She says she’s at least must have bipolar 2 and she’s hypomanic. Like hypomania is more then not sleeping well, its irritability, feeling invisible, impaired judgement, euphoria, spending all your money that kind of thing. Like I know it’s not place to gait keep but it’s like why the fuck are trying to have to bipolar. Nobody wants to have bipolar. It’s fucking hell. I made comments when she was describing her symptoms “that’s not what bipolar is”. Now she’s mad at me. Like stfu I live with this illness everyday and it has ruined my life many times. She doesn’t know i have bipolar and I don’t plan on telling her.

My boyfriend has twice tried to keep me awake when I was trying to sleep. Both times were the night before a very early work day (6:30 am WFH).

I kept asking him to not play music without headphones, to stop trying to engage me in conversation, to stop trying to rub my back. But he kept doing it until I snapped and whisper yelled at him.

I felt like breaking something but I didn’t and went to a hotel instead.

I feel like such a monster. The next day he minimized what he did and told me I needed to work on things to.

Yes, I know I need to break up with him. We don’t live together. Just venting. Love you guys!

I haven’t been able to sleep well since june, i always wake up and can’t really fall back asleep. I took my meds in the wrong time, which i tried to fix but didn’t work, later it became worse, so i went back to my psychiatrist who prescribed me sleeping pills and he took my antidepressant away because it wasn’t working anymore. And gave me antipsychotic medication and now I barely sleep at all, waking up at 4 am and being really tired all day after sleeping 4-5 hrs, I always try to fall back asleep but i keep having sleep paralysis if i do, the sleeping medicine is still not working after 2 weeks either, what should i do? (I have bipolar 2)
Thank you all in advance.

Has anyone experienced something like this? Did you find your way back?

As a disclaimer, I don't have an official diagnosis yet but have worked with a professional who diagnosed me as "on the bipolar spectrum". I'm an immigrant and due to travel between my two countries, my access to healthcare has been fragmented and I'm waiting to be assessed by the NHS.

Onto the post. I used to live in India until I was 22 and looking back, I think I was basically constantly hypomanic from at least age 17/18. I then moved to the UK and my hypomania was triggered less and less and I started to lean towards depression (I think because of the weather). For about 4 years from 17 to 21/22 though, I wrote SO MUCH, I constantly had a journal on me, words just flowed out of me and I honestly think I wrote really good stuff. Poetry, stories, scripts, I even started a novel. Of course I never completed anything long form because I'd excitedly start a new project and my motivation would fall off a cliff after a few days or I'd move onto something else. It was a highly creative time of my life, I was so active on social media sharing all my thoughts and I felt awesome about myself.

Cut to today, it's been 5+ years of trying to get back to writing and I'm starting to accept my writer mode was due to a hypomania powered creativity which I may never be able to intentionally bring back. This makes me very sad, I always dreamt of writing and publishing at some point in my life. Now my hypomania is directed at my work and organising my life and I've basically not written anything for my thesis in a year.

I know that if I really want to write then I will sit my ass down and write, but I feel like 1) I actually can't really control the flow of my hypomanic energy positively - what I mean by this is, I do stop the flow of my hypomanic energy from going towards destructive places such as drinking and sex (I used to engage in a lot of destructive hypomania, that's how I got my stories to write too), but I genuinely don't know if I can control it's flow towards something? like when I'm hypomanic, pushing myself to write instead of doing whatever I'm focused on doing; 2) even if I do write, which I have done a few select times in the last few years too, I have to build a whole new practice that doesn't depend on the 'rush' of hypomania. I never truly built this, so my skillset and discipline does not match the outputs I produced in an altered state, but which have nevertheless set my expectations from myself, and 3) I have no idea how my creativity and passions will work once I'm stable anyway. Like I may just be a totally different person??

Anyway tldr: I tried for 5+ years to return to a highly creative time in my life and I'm now starting to accept it was fueled by me being constantly hypomanic and I probably may never be able to return to it :( Has anybody been able to "return" to a past self that was powered by a mood episode? Is grieving your past selves just a part of living with this condition?

hi all!

i’ve been diagnosed with bipolar for about 3 years. i recently started with a new therapist, who i absolutely adore. something we’ve been talking about a lot has been food. i’ve always had a weird relationship with food, and lately it’s becoming more of a sensory nightmare. i can eat about 70-80% of my food, but then gag if i try to eat more. does anyone else experience this? i’m so curious if this is related to bipolar in anyway, but it really seems to be a separate issue that i need help with.

i am actively working with my therapist, a psychiatrist, and a nutritionist, so i have an amazing team of providers who are helping me. just curious if anyone has the same issues :)

I’m a person of color so I’ve already dealt with discrimination/racism in my life. But I’ve noticed that I’ve been way more discriminated for being bipolar. “You’re too dangerous to be around kids/people”. “Are you gonna put my life in danger”. “Are you just horny 24/7 now”.

I have been having a months-long manic episode that went from the fun kind to the angry, irritable kind. I also have borderline personality disorder which is relevant.

I basically decided that my cat doesn’t love me any more so I wanted to get rid of him. I talked to my therapist at the height of me being delusional and paranoid about my cat and she said something that made everything worse. I was telling her my cat only goes potty when my roommate is around and she said it’s because my roommate is my cat’s “person.”

I’ve taken some newly prescribed meds and have come down from whatever was making me want to get rid of my cat. But that comment threw me into constant doubt about whether he loves me more. He is my whole world and my reason for being alive and my therapist knew that so idk why she’d say what she said. I’m now analyzing how he behaves towards me vs my roommate.

Guess I’m just looking for advice on what to do. I don’t want to find a new therapist during a mental health crisis (again) but idk if I can move past that.

I've been recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder but my psychiatrist never told me which type I had. I do experience mood swings that lasts for days but sometimes very rarely I have mood swings within the same day hours apart from one another. Or it will start within hours of the day and last for a few days. Is this typical with bipolar disorder?

(Actively working with care team)

So while I haven't been diagnosed YET it is highly being considered and I'm already being medicated. I have a family history of Bipolar, both my mother and grandmother had it. While I love my mother, my previous mental health struggles causes me to worry about going to her for advice. I recently had what I assume to be a manic episode, over 2 weeks of barely any sleep, energy for days, a drive to do things an interact with people and life, feeling like I was on top of the world. And as my friends would say? A heavily inflated Ego. (This is just a basic run down of how I was feeling and such, not a full description)

While now I feel like a mess again I was just wondering if anyone had any advice for someone who will likely get diagnosed very soon as my therapist has made notes of the supposed manic episode and is cluing in my psychiatrist on it. I want to be as healthy as I can be, to do things right and not fall into past habits. I've made progress in therapy but I just, I feel like I need advice from people who have lived with it. Perhaps how I can get the diagnosis sped along? or just how to live with Bipolar or similar conditions.

I thank anyone who reaches out with some advice or anything of the sort, I will take any help I can get! I wish all of you a fantastic day and or night depending on who and when you're reading!

Hi i had my first manic episode a couple months ago, and i did and said things i deeply regret and feel guilty about.

How do you bear with the aftermath of it all (like regret, embarrassment and guilt)