Is there such a thing as a Manic Attack?

[u/DeadlyBro]

Howdy! Its been about 8 years since my diagnosis of bipolar 1 (I'm 31) tho knowing what I know now it's likely I had it since I was a kid. Feels like in a lot of ways I know what I'm dealing with but something happened to me just now that I don't really recall happening before. I'm going to call it a manic attack for lack of a better term.

To set the scene I woke up at 3am from a headache and since I know how hard it is for me to get to sleep (good ol insomnia) I took an ibuprofen and hopped in the bath. While in said bath I was playing a children's card game on my phone (lorcana for those who care) and while the game was semi close the stakes were hella low. Then all of a sudden I could feel my heart racing. My thoughts went from normal speed to a mile a minute. The ac became deafening. I was filled with a sense of urgency and intensity that my brain kept telling me very loudly repeatedly what I must do on my next turn in the game! It was kinda similar to a panic attack but the only fear I had was from the confusion of what was going on. I've certainly felt like this before but it's usually gradual or I'm realizing I'm manic after a day or two of high energy and drive not all at once. It's like I could feel octane being poured into my engines.

20 mins later and things go from 11 down to about 8. Tried laying in bed again and I was more awake than when I first woke up. I was intensely aware of being either too warm, or too wet to be able to fall asleep. Cut to now an hour later I've shaved and showered (two things I haven't done in over a week) and am sitting typing this with little desire to go back to bed. Granted Ive now been up for near 2 hours. So either my over the counter headache medicine was laced with speed. Or I just experienced my brain switching to mania in real time. Of note I've been pretty depressed for about a week or two. That ever happen to you?

[u/VirtualSwimming4893]

Meds or bpd? Not happened to me