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Bipolar Symptom: Flight of Ideas

By Marcia Purse, Health Guide Sunday, January 08, 2012
Flight of ideas can be a symptom of either a manic or a hypomanic episode, as well as other mental disorders. The name sounds like it's something experienced in thoughts, but it actually has to do with speaking rapidly and jumping from one topic to another.   I had a friend with bipolar I disord...
Bipolar Disorder and Pain
1/ 8/12 11:05pm

flight of ideas, racing thoughts, rapid or pressured speech....

 

wait till your brain is flying so fast that the words spilling forth is complete gibberish that only you - within your mind - understand but everyone else surrounding you are looking at you going "huh?"

 

it's like you can't stop talking no matter how much you desperately want to or you can't stop writing, though you are tired and exhausted

 

the overwhelming drive within to just think, speak, write... and then to realize none of it really makes sense

brain is churning like a maddening tornado... and you just cannot seem to make it shut off

1/11/12 12:13pm

My flight of-idea-episodes are much like described but the curious thing is that they happen only with 2 people, both are co-workers.  It becomes embarassing when I am half way through the whole monologue.  Then one  co-worker or the other will say something and boom, I'm off on some weird verbal "thing" again.   I hate it.   I would't mind mania half as much if it didn't "go public" 

1/15/12 2:49am

"I would't mind mania half as much if it didn't "go public" "

 

i liked it!! haha

1/16/12 8:26am

wait till you have 2-3 way conversations... arguments... even heated discussions

 

with yourself

 

in public

 

it's even worse when folks realize, you do not have that little bluetooth gizmo hooked to your ear

 

i know i sort of make light and i have to cause otherwise... i would be in really bad shit.. i do this all the time, i'm told and i do catch myself as well sometimes... when i'm in a really heightened episode

1/15/12 2:56am

i am an introvert. ex-architecture student. dont talk much with people but "talk-to-myself" when my mania gets up from hibernation.

 

suppose i need a table at my office or at my study. i will design it myself... make sketches...make revisions....think about the design all the time. i will obsess over all the details. and when finally i'm settled on one design, there would be one more fundamental change of the whole thing. 

 

its good to have the brain fluids flowing until it hits the fuse.

 

 

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By Marcia Purse, Health Guide— Last Modified: 01/16/12, First Published: 01/08/12