manic 3am thoughts…
Me being a A+++ student and going for my daily walks xxx
what it’s really like to be manic and live with type 1 bipolar.
10th February, 3:07am, Tuesday.
Good morning from a very tired (yet somehow wide awake) and slightly manic Siena.
It has now been a full week of sleepless nights getting as little as 3 hours to a max of 8 hours (on Friday night after giving in and taking a phenergan (drowsy antihistamine)).
Before you blame the bipolar (don’t worry I certainly did) there are a multitude of factors for this:
My beautiful partner Jim just got home from being in Japan for 3 weeks and we have been sleeping together again. Co-sleeping is HARD. It doesn’t help that Jim has also been sick and coughing all night…
According to my beautiful, spiritual Aunty there has been solar flares happening and people who are more sensitive to cosmic shifts and things like this have been struggling to sleep.
Last week was a full moon so that always ignites some rough sleeping (for me at least).
I got my period - cue terrible sleeps :(
It has been obsessively HOT the past week :0
I have recently been formally diagnosed with bipolar and the less sleep you get, the more manic you can feel/become. Which is great! Because just as you realise you are starting to veer on a dangerous path of not being regulated and REALLY needing to sleep you also start to feel stupidly high and wide awake and like the last thing you could ever possibly need in your whole life is sleep.
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read the full article here: https://substack.com/@groundingmamma/p-187436166
