![]() I also get headaches from the extreme anger or adrenaline rushes. When the rage sets in, I blackout and don’t remember everything I say or do. I have had to have emergency gallbladder surgery and still live with issues everyday.” - Tiffany I.ġ7. “Gastrointestinal issues are common for me. When I’m leveled out, my skin clears up until the next episode.” - Kelly A.ġ6. When I’m going a million miles an hour and not sleeping, I’m filled with stress hormones and my skin takes a hit. It’s like there are so many thoughts racing they can’t help but overflow verbally too.” - Tracy S.ġ5. I catch myself and hope no one has heard me. But I’m not just thinking these situations, I’m saying them out loud: in the car, shower, etc. There are so many racing thoughts and stress about certain aspects of my life that I replay how to handle situations over and over in my head so I don’t have diarrhea of the mouth inappropriately. “I talk to myself out loud when I’m manic. I also roll and flex my ankles and wrists, usually without realizing.” - Aimee C.ġ4. “While experiencing anxiety symptoms and hypomanic phases, I tug at my hair (not to pull it out though). We gotta finish rearranging your room by one in the morning so we have time to finish a hardcover notebook and read two novels before the sun shows up.’” - Reinrose B.ġ3. Then, during a manic episode, your body screams at you to let it rest, but your brain’s all, ‘No. For example, when you’re in a depressive episode and can’t get out of bed, your brain screams at you, trying to force you to get up, but your body doesn’t listen. “Your body and your mind sort of become separate. No good can come for me physically when I’m using all my energy fighting to stay in it mentally.” - Mallory J.ġ2. And I stay up late and get super hungry when I’m manic. I eat too much and can’t work out when I’m depressed. Plus it makes sleeping nearly impossible.” - Cassy H.ġ1. It makes me feel like I could run for hours but also vomit. “Weird buzzing feeling I feel all over my body, and the endless butterflies in my stomach during a manic episode. people tell me it’s really just a bunch of ‘umm’s’ and forgetting what I was saying.” - Olivia W.ġ0. I think I’m forming full sentences when I’m experiencing the anxiety associated with my bipolar. I never feel relaxed and it affects my posture.” - Robin J.ĩ. I really wish I could afford to have regular massages. “I get knots in my shoulders and back due to the fact that I stay tensed up all the time. I feel my brain painfully pulsing against my skull and my limbs get tingly and my heart randomly starts pounding faster and it’s almost like an exhaustive but constant anxiety attack when I’m in an irritable mood.” - Betsi L.Ĩ. Feels like a marathon just to lift your arms to brush you hair, if you even get that far that day.” - Kaytlynn J.ħ. “Mind going a million miles per hour but your body is so exhausted that you can’t move. When I start getting extra clumsy, I know I need to slow down or I’ll turn full on manic.” - Icie B.Ħ. When I’m too ‘up,’ I move too fast and drop everything, slam cabinets and doors without meaning to, I trip on the floor. When hypomanic I can stay out the whole day and fit in four different things, whereas when I’m depressed, I don’t have the energy to get out of bed at times.” - Madoka S.ĥ. “My energy levels shift really dramatically. Body pains and feeling like you need to burst out of your own skin.” - Jazmyne F.Ĥ. ![]() Lack of appetite or starving and eating so much. “Not being able to sleep when in hypomania and not get enough sleep when depressed. It feels like I’m literally trapped in my own skin, and the only way out is to rip it open or peel it off.” - Meghan G.ģ. ![]() And not for just an hour, for multiple on end, sometimes days. Now imagine being so agitated, you have to bounce or shake your entire body to try to relieve the discomfort. Imagine being in a lecture and becoming really antsy, and you start bouncing your leg. I’ve done things during a manic episode that I don’t remember later, wondering how I got to whatever place I’m in.” - Shannon D.Ģ. Because by talking about everything that bipolar disorder entails, we can continue to deepen our understanding of it.ġ. That’ s why we asked our Mighty mental health community living with bipolar disorder to tell us some surprising physical symptoms of bipolar disorder they’ve experienced. And sometimes, the different “categories” of symptoms intertwine. It may also be common for people to talk about the signs and symptoms, and not what it actually feels like to go through them.īut the symptoms of bipolar disorder can be just as physical as they are mental. Because bipolar disorder is considered a mental illness - most people focus on how mentally taxing the ups and downs of manic and depressive episodes can be.
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