From the article: Bipolar Grandiosity
Do you experience bipolar grandiosity during a manic episode? Grandiosity can be harmless, or it can lead to all kinds of reckless, thoughtless or even dangerous behavior. By sharing your experience with grandiosity, you can educate others about this symptom of bipolar disorder, as well as making others who go through it feel less alone. Share Experiences
Manic Grandiosity
- When I was younger and undiagnosed, I had to do everything for my children that was never done for me. I had the most elaborate birthday parties and Christmases. I wanted to prove that I was a good mother to my children. I spent money I did not have in the belief that I have the biggest and therefore the best. I made the most extravagant Halloween costumes. I spent money with the intention that I would always be able to pay it back. I did the math in my head and I knew that I could do it. Of course I couldn't but I didn't know that then. I thought that I was capable of everything. Rude awakening when I woke up (mentally) in handcuffs being taken to IP...
- —LadyHeather
hypomanic grandiosity
- i seriously still dont believe its not just me who feels this way about herself..when i'm hypomanic,i feel i could understand and make friends with anyone..anyone at all.I'd be able to read anyone's mind,and know what exactly what they feel,or what theyre thinking about,and accordingly just communicate with them like the way they want to..tell them just exactly what they want to hear,or feel.I'd feel i'm better smarter and prettier than absolutely anyone else,and that i could do anything at all.I could write,dance,sing,or work anything i wish!i could get along with all types of personalities,convert myself the way the person i'm with wants me to be.I could be the girl every guy dreams to have,and it actually does happen..everyone around me just keep falling in love with me,and i have that indefinite depth of thought and wisdom...inredible isnt it?and then i just get depressed and lose it all.....
- —Guest jennifer
i know what that's like!
- I'll feel i'm this perfect person who has just the best characteristics anyone could ask for, i feel so giving and understanding even if i'm just ordering a cheeseburger through a drive through. I also feel i could go home and somehow record the greatest guitar solo the world has ever heard, make the greatest movie (even though i have no camera or anything at all) I am this almost romantic character, like a combination of every celebrity, who just has his work cut out for him and has no time for normal people like you. I am...the greatest person ever. Then i'll have 20 minutes where I feel really embaressed about my thoughts, whether i acted them out or not, and feel a load of anxiety and constant thoughts in my head.
- —Guest dillon
Hypomanic grandiosity
- I get periods where I am sure I'm able to talk to people with purely cognitions. I can send the thoughts through my eyes and make them respond how I want. I am very smart, I've always been above average, but I keep feeling I can do 3 years of university in one or less. I probably could to be honest though, college was as easy as GCSEs. I always feel right, I deserve the best treatment. I once thought God was sending me messages through my doctors mother and others when I went through a mixed episode, but I went severely depressed straight afterwards (as in 30 minutes after the mixed episode started). Everybody loves me, and I am the best at everything I do. People confirm this becuse they like hanging around me more and for some reason its very easy to drag everyone out of their houses and do whatever I want. But I don't care about others feelings because they don't matter to me. I can tell the blunt truth, but no one dares to go against me or stand up for eachother either...
- —Guest qwan
