by UpDownAround » Tue Jun 13, 2017 3:05 pm
Both at different times.
I am not sure I have ever considered dysphoria a high though. When it comes on it is often in a situation where I realize I am uncomfortable and really don't want to be there. Then I get away from it and usually feel relief. Sometimes I don't and that really sucks. I hate that feeling. I am type 2 and one of those people who largely enjoys the hypomania except for a few symptoms. Dysphoria is one. The others are being a condescending jerk without realizing it, saying inappropriate things (my humor needs boundaries sometimes) and getting aroused at inappropriate times.
I enjoy euphoria except when the timing is really bad. People take it wrong when they tell me their troubles and I am having trouble suppressing a grin. That is usually from meds but sometimes it is out of the blue. The weird one is that even when I am near rock bottom, if I get out in the sun when it is warm to hot and close my eyes and withdraw within myself, I get this mental feeling like I have drawn up in the fetal position (but usually am reclined in a zero G chair) and I fantasize about living a completely different life and can get so lost in it that it is jarring to come back to reality. I am very briefly disoriented when I do this for more than a couple of minutes.
From my early teens until my late 20s (late 50s now) I did a lot of drugs and experienced both feelings a lot. I am almost hesitant to mention med related mild euphoria because it used to be a bad thing (according to society anyway) to enjoy that. I also don't confide in many people about the fantasizing. Posting here doesn't count; perceived anonymity is different.
Up and down
And in the end it's only round and round
Pink Floyd - Us and Them
bipolar II, hyperacusis, substance use disorder
lamictal, straterra, saphris