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Completely off-topic post, but does anyone know if someone has ever studied non-depressive manics? It doesn't seem like it would a very popular field in the medical or psych worlds, in that a non-depressive manic wouldn't need help. In fact, it might've never come to the attention of the medical world that it even exists. It's just that's what I am and I wondered if I might find something to read about it.

And before anyone says "You can't be manic without depression... blah blah" like I've been told by extremely "knowledgable" (i.e. they read a book about it once and they see a counsellor sometimes) people, I am a normal, really happy, stable person and sometimes, I have the same manic episodes a manic depressive does, where I am hyper (think like Reeen after a couple of beers) and in a manically happy state (think someone having boshed a couple of e's and a dabbed a fair bit of speed), I can't stand still and I'm just bouncing with more energy than I know what to do with. And then I return to normal the next day, no come-down, no bounce back into the blues. It's like being a manic depressive, but my baseline is 4 notches higher.

I'm not sure if it's a natural medical condition, or if I maybe have some kind of food allergy that's getting me like that or what. So just curious really, in case any of you have ever seen a study paper on the subject.

Nothing personal and no offence, Tea-Bee, I am far from judging people. I think the whole spectrum of human is too broad to simply say: this is this and this is that - this is normal and this is ill. It was one of my thesis in my final paper work :)

As I know, Mania is included in ICD-10 , but not in DSM-IV, for example. But as you are probably aware, very often 'medical diagnosis' are changing according to the spirit of the society. Something what was considered as 'abnormal' is not abnormal anymore and vice versa.