Does your mania feel good or bad?

I experience hypomania occasionally, and it always feels good in the moment. I thought mania would be like that but more extreme, but my niece who has full manic episodes says her mania doesn’t feel good. So I’m wondering if other people feel bad during their manic episodes. And I guess I want to know if some people feel bad during hypomania too.

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sirweighsalot · 22-25, M

I have severe type 1 bipolar. During my one manic episode, I rapidly switched back and forth between being severely paranoid and being on top of the world. I locked myself in my home and thought I was living in the purge. Happened months ago and I'm still recovering from how scary everything was.

itsok · 31-35, F

@sirweighsalot that does sound really scary I have a few siblings with bipolar (1, 2 and the other one is schizoaffective and if they break the bipolar part of that into 1 and 2 he just never said) and none of them have really explained too much about the mania/hypomania. But my niece is type 1 and was telling me about thinking she was god, and the amount of anger she felt, and how it never felt good