I think this in part drives the depression / mania cycle,
At least it did for me.
Staying up coding or working on a project would life my depression, but then I’d go off in the other direction and end up in psychosis as I chased the sleep deprivation high.
Also why concerts, festivals, even cool conferences were so attractive.
That said, it seems possible to leverage this as a tool — certainly more useful than SSRIs, etc. which just punt the issues and tend to make things worse.
As for me, I ultimately healed so called manic psychosis, bipolar, schizoaffective,
Anxiety through Transpersonal approaches, psychedelics, gratitude, meditation, nature and learning to regulate my nervous system. Without medications despite what the doctors said was possible.
Staying up coding or working on a project would life my depression, but then I’d go off in the other direction and end up in psychosis as I chased the sleep deprivation high.
Also why concerts, festivals, even cool conferences were so attractive.
That said, it seems possible to leverage this as a tool — certainly more useful than SSRIs, etc. which just punt the issues and tend to make things worse.
As for me, I ultimately healed so called manic psychosis, bipolar, schizoaffective, Anxiety through Transpersonal approaches, psychedelics, gratitude, meditation, nature and learning to regulate my nervous system. Without medications despite what the doctors said was possible.