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Is it possibly to safely trigger an extended period of hypomania?

Missing vitality is a good way to put it. The will and desire to engage in healthful activities as you recommend completely disappear following a bout of hypomania/mania . Faking it til you make it doesn’t always work. It’s that vitality that gives the feeling that doctors so clinically describe as “feeling on top of the world” or “invincible”. Only those that have experienced it truly know the depth of these “symptoms”. I understand that being in a state of hypomania is not without risk but the cost to benefit analysis is the eye of the beholder imo. The transformation of person that occurs during an episode is honestly astonishing, it’s like night and day. I don’t disagree that chasing the dragon comes with its own set of risks but the feeling does make you question. What has your experience with mania/hypomania been like?