Euphoria in Bipolar and Schizoaffective - Day 18 of "100 Symptoms"
Channel: nednednerB the Schizophrenic
Date: 2019-04-09

Can the upside have a downside? Euphoria can be tricky. Good feelings can feel more intense for someone with psychotic symptoms. All of it can carry a person away from less intense stability.  

It feels like the upside. It feels like things are turning around. It feels like you are released and enabled. Surely you are energetic. Surely, you are moving quickly. Probably, you feel confident. The feelings you have are definitely profound and grand. You are on top of the world. If the descriptions fits, the emotional states here can be described as "euphoria."

Occurring more regularly for the Schizo-Affective and Bipolar side of the psychosis spectrum, euphoria is often experienced by the self like everything hoped for is happening. It feels like the upside in many ways. It usually occurs in the manic phase, and it can be high energy but can also look like a peaceful state. In the worst situation, it may be the calm before the storm.

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