I heard about this manipulation technique called hot and cold. Basically you start off by giving someone a lot of attention, being open with them. Then you start getting cold with them, take a long time to respond to their texts, not give them any attention, stuff like that. The purpose of this is to make them crave your attention. It’s obviously not very ethical.

The problem is this is kind of how we function. When we’re normal we(or atleast I) give everyone a normal amount of attention, when I’m hypomanic it’s regular for me to obsess over someone and give them a lot of attention, but when I’m depressed I don’t give them any attention because I don’t have the energy