Hypomanic, Self Diagnosed.
Okay, I will formally admit it, I am hypomanic. When it's the good kind, I don't want to believe it, but I've been acting SO out of character for me.The first obvious sign was something I've NEVER done before when I'm hypo - start buying tons of stuff without considering our budget. I got an Amazon delivery today, and do you know I had NO CLUE what could possibly be in it? I was almost scared to open it.About the third day in, I confessed to my husband I thought I was hypo and was spending a lot of money which has never been a symptom I've had. He was SO nice about it, I couldn't believe it! He guards our budget on a daily basis, but of course I had been using my own credit cards so he had no idea what I was doing. He called today from work and asked if I could please enter in my transactions into our budget application because he didn't see any and had no idea how much I spent. His guess was $10k. Are you kidding me? I'm hypo but not ready for a divorce.Making myself enter my transactions and actually SEE what I have done has, for now, stopped the spending spree. He estimated it to be around a thousand dollars, but I think that's too high. However, I wasn't going to argue with someone who was being unbelievably gracious and not mad at all. He understands that is a symptom of my disease and I guess he thinks I can't help it, which must be true. I have NO IDEA what came over me to make me so obsessed...
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