Silent mania

[Elinah]

Has anyone suffered from 'silent' mania? Like you mind runs so fast and you talk alot, but your mind is running too ast that you cant keep up with it and you just stop talking all together and just listen to your thoughts? I always stop mid conversation and just sit in silence with a racing mind. Anybody else experience this?

[Shippe13]

I get like that too. Sometimes I catch myself rambling on and on and I realize (from the look on the other persons face) that I have lost them. I then begin to mumble, because I can't just shut up.... and then eventually I just tell myself that I need to never talk again. It is a bit embarrassing for me.  

[babybonita]

My mind is like that all the time even when im depressed. Its obviously races more when I'm mixed & manic. I don't give other people a chance to talk, constantly trying to gather my thoughts together in silence. My thoughts fly every episode I even start stuttering sometimes when manic  because there's to much to express. I hope you get some relief from meds. They help you crash from cycling.

[Amy4891]

I am not sure really, because this is the first major manic episode I have had so I don't have much to compare it to. Although I think I was hypomanic when I was a teenager. I am 27 now. The hypomanic was not this bad though. I don't think I had the racing thoughts with it.
I hope they get you on some meds that help. It can be difficult sometimes to find the right ones though. So don't get discouraged if you have to go through a few to find the one that works well for you.

[Elinah]

no im not on meds at the moment, because they just recently diagnosed me with bipolar 2, but i keep having manic episodes wich wasnt supposed to happen? so they have just re diagnosed me with bipolar 1, and meds are on the way. they have stopped now, and i should be in bed, its like 6am in the UK, been up since 4am, restless. do your thoughts fly every manic episode? <3

[Amy4891]

It will be ok. Are you on meds for this? I know how you feel I have been there. It reminds me of the saying; "Lost inside my mind", but it takes on a whole new meaning when you experiance that saying personnally. I had a tendancy to want to isolate myself when I was like that, and got irritable when people bothered me I just wanted everyone to leave me alone. I only got that way when my racing thoughts were super bad though. Maybe if you are not on meds you should consider taking some. I wish there was something else I could do to help. I hope you feel better soon. <3

[Elinah]

I am no longer in reality even though i am, and then i can start speaking within reason when they dissapear

[Elinah]

I can spend the whole day without excessively talking all because of the racing mind. Its not like this everyday during mania though, i still talk rapidly and alot which makes it difficult for others to interrupt me, but its scary days like today where i enter the world o my mind and i feel like

[baaSHEEPbaa]

I haven't been diagnosed with bipolar, but I know what your talking about. My thought get so fast I'm not even sure what I am thinking. I just have a big headache, my thoughts are racing and I don't even know what about. I get so desperate to get out I might want to punch something hard to shock me, but so of the time I'm like screaming and writhing kind of thing.

[Amy4891]

I have had racing thoughts so bad I can't even concentrate on the other person talking let alone answer them. Also I have trouble concentrating on anything physical. It is like you are staring off into space and looks like to an outsider nothing is going on, but there really is just too much going on. It is like taking a trip through your mind at light speed. So yes I think I have at least experianced something simmilar.
I think if something like this gets real bad it may be considered a form of catatonia. I know I paced alot also when my racing thoughts were really bad it is like I could not do anything else. Pacing and mutism could be symptoms of catatonia. I just do alot of research...I am defenitly not a doctor.
Have you talked to your pdoc about this yet? I am curious about what they may have said about it.