Mania Question- help please?

Question

I am 17 and diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I have been majorly depressed for a week now, previously a more mixed state. Just last night I was highly suicidal and had strong urges to self-harm. Now I am loud, talkative (I am naturally with drawn) jumpy and too easily set off into fits of laughter. My hands are shaking as I type this, and my mind is making up funny, abstract sentences. I keep getting impulses to do weird things, like grab the steering wheel from the driver or punch the dashboard... mostly involving sharp movements. I have to consciously make efforts not to blurt strange sentences out.

Is is possible for me to be back to mania again? Or is it just hypomania? I am so d**n hyperactive right now that I feel compelled to know exactly what is going on. Odd, huh?

Help, please!

Answer 1

Sounds like hypomania, fast turning into mania to me, but I'm not a psychiatrist.

Answer 2

it's mania. it is possible. i'm bipolar and when i am either off my medicine or just being prescribed the wrong medicine, i am in mania one day and severely depressed the next. it is probably driving you and everybody around you insane. talk to your doctor.  

Answer 3

Even if you are just hypomanic you could be manic within hours or days.  Please contact your psychiatrist or go to an emergency room for immediate assessment and care.  You may be dangerous to yourself at this time.