Talked earlier this year how a “personality change” that followed an episode of obstructing my airway and successfully self-heimliching changed the character of my hypomanic episodes, made them less intellectual, where before I’d just stay in and compulsively write essays now I’d go out and talk to (and charm the pants off) strangers

But it seems the down periods are less intellectualized too, and how that plays out is instead of catastrophizing and seeing the world as full of enemies I just have no energy and sleep 10-12 hours a day, which especially in the winter means I might miss sunlight or business hours entirely, which presents its own class of issues