Verdandi wrote:
My understanding is that mania tends to include psychosis - I didn't get the sense of psychosis from your description. I also know people who experience hypomania and they don't always have fine control over themselves. One guy I know gets extremely impulsive and picks fights with people over nothing - online, anyway. I don't know what he does face to face. But he doesn't give the impression of fine control when he's having an episode.
No, there is a special specifier for that sort of mania in the DSM - Mania with psychtoic features - and I think if these people don't have control over themselves then it might be more then hypomania, hypomania implies you're in control.
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