What word do some of you usually use instead? Mania isn’t actually recognized as a symptom of BPD and I don’t want to appropriate terminology from other communities (bipolar in this case). But, as I’m sure some of you can relate, when I’m coming out a depressive episode and my BPD brain is making me feel really “up” and my mania-like symptoms of impulsivity are being triggered, the only way I can think to describe that feeling is as mania. Which I know that’s wrong, but it just feels like the best way to describe it because I imagine it’s very similar. So do any of you have any ideas as to how to appropriately refer to this?

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