Anyone know someone who talks too much and has bipolar disorder

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I started another thread this week as it was pointed out I talk ALOT.
I do and always have.In my 20s a psychiatrist said I had verbal diorreah.
I do have anxiety but I also have bursts of extreme energy.Normally in the summer.I can do a million things an hour and talk fast.too.Rambling on.
I have never seen it as a problem as I can get loads done.I find other people quite slow.
So you know anyone or do you talk to excess and is it bipolar or anxiety related.Has it.caused you problems?.

Both. And never caused me problems but you do need to watch you don’t overshare with anyone who might have an agenda or doesn’t understand your background or anxieties

I don't have a formal diagnosis of bipolar just anxiety and SAD.
I'm in my 50s now however at 22 I was told to be careful as people may use my openness against me.Mostly they don't but I appear to have no filter.😶
Have you been diagnosed with bipolar disorder?Did you have to see a GP or mental health team through referral?

I have schizoaffective bipolar type(which is all the symptoms of bipolar 1 with schizophrenic episodes as well) when manic I talk way to much but generally I'm too paranoid to talk in case I say something which can be used against me.

DB has a diagnostic of bipolar and anxiety. He talks a lot and very loudly. It makes him quite difficult to be around for any length of time as he does not take turns in conversation and can come across as very aggressive in the way he speaks.

I work in MH and there is a distinct difference between someone talking a lot, having agitated energy with anxiety and someone in a manic state with bipolar.

I guess with bipolar becoming more well known, or represented and discussed in popular media more people seem to query whether they have this disorder. A diagnosis would come from a psychiatrist, so if the GP suspected you might, they would refer to MH team for assessment. However 99% of service users I know with that diagnosis haven't queried the illness, they've got a diagnosis because they've swung into services against their will at a time when they were very unwell. Bipolar is a serious MH disorder which has a really significant, often debilitating impact on someone's life (at least until stabilised and properly treated).

Thank you all.Takethewine maybe that is me.I don't talk loudly though but alot.That is interesting lobster8.I always thought I was just a full of beans type of person and chatty.I probably am.I do find it hard not to talk though.I am trying.

The people I've know to have manic episodes have always talked a lot during them. Noticeably more than normal. Having bipolar doesn't normally mean you talk a lot more all of the time.

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I have both bipolar and anxiety and the talking too much thing is quite different for both. I ramble a lot due to anxiety, eg overshare, overexplain. My speech is affected if I'm ill in a bipolar episode - I barely speak or speak very slowly when depressed and when manic it's like someone has a boot on my neck forcing me to talk and it's very rapid, constant, agitated, "pressured", with very rapid thoughts and a noisy brain.

I talk a lot and find other people too slow, but then I do have ADHD. Have you considered that? A lot of people, especially women who present differently, are getting diagnosed later in life.

It's the anxiety rather than the bipolar disorder. My mother had diagnoses of both, but the mania manifested in action not speech. The incessant chatter was the anxiety.

I never considered ADHD tbh.I have slowed down a lot in lockdown as I had to.I think my job is a high pressured one so perhaps the anxiety and adrenaline !make me hyper active.I will look up ADHD though.

I immediately wondered if you'd explored the possibility of ADHD. It's so commonly missed or misdiagnosed in girls and women.

Adhd is more common in premature babies and I was born at 33 weeks.! Very interesting.

To be considered is why you feel the urge to fill.the spaces with talking? Is it a strategy to distract you from your feelings. Do you talk to yourself when alone? Do you fear being alone or do you enjoy your own company?

If you are talking a lot then you can't be really present or notice what is going on for other people in the room.
As it sort of blocks others from getting in. The talking can be a defense, a sort of protective wall.

When I am manic police and other professionals or even taxi drivers and strangers all ask something along the lines of what have you been taking I'm bouncing round in the seat wearing virtually nothing even if it's freezing get agitated easily, talk so much it sounds aggressive I'm hyper full of confidence and extremely overly sexual I believe I am a angel and I can hear god speaking to me I see poltergeists and ghosts and think they all want to rape me as I'm so attractive and give of unique pheromones making me irresistible.

For example my first episode I went from never having kissed a boy to having slept with 4 men in a month, bipolar is not like the media portrays it it is not mild and the mood swings are extremely noticeable and will ruin your life if unmedicated. IME aid you haven't completely fucked up your life on a episode at least once it's not bipolar.

Sadie I suppose I am not present.I do love my own company and do not socialise.I grew up in a large family so never had any alone time I even shared a bedroom.
I do talk to my pets though.
Theodore B
I am sorry to hear it has caused you difficulties.The only thing I can relate to like that is I started an affair many decades ago.The person lived an hour away yet I used to see them most days.I could ve lost my home or marriage yet found it impossible to stop.
How I managed to fit in the affair is beyond me.most working mums have enough to do.
I have been asked if I was on something before.I barely even drink.

OP I’m a MH professional and also have bipolar. I get a sense from your posts that you’re trying to hang your issues/traits on a particular ‘peg’. With the best will in the world, with enough googling and slight bending of things, any diagnosis (ADHD, bipolar, anxiety, or just your general personality) could be found to ‘explain’ the things you describe.
To be diagnosed with bipolar you have to have experienced several episodes of major depression and at least one episode of mania. By mania I don’t mean having had an affair, being a chatty person, having nervous energy etc.... I mean full-scale euphoria/agitation/delusions etc etc. These aren’t general character traits, they are severe episodes that can wreck your life via sexual disinhibition, exorbitant spending, extreme risk-taking, sometimes uncharacteristic aggression etc).

I have cared for many, many people during their acute bipolar episodes and can say you really don’t sound like you fit the criteria for a diagnosis.

I have also myself just experienced both a depressive and a manic episode, which nearly wrecked my relationship, has rendered me off work, and almost left me unable to care for my children. So I sincerely hope you don’t have bipolar.

One of my best friends has bp. She often talks over me which I used to find annoying until she explained about BP and how she has so much in her head it kind of spurts out. She's great, but people who don't know about the BP can find her annoying for that reason.

THank you both.Looking up ADHD it sounds like a lot applies to me.Muckyplucky you are right and I apologise if I am so anyone who does have bipolar.My nephew has it and my dsis has paranoid schizophrenia .
Some comments about me talking too much rattled me and hurt my feelings so much that I thought I perhaps have a condition as I have always been very chatty and open.
Some people have remarked that they miss me when I'm off as I do have an energy the others don't too.

Whilst there can be a familial predisposition to bipolar, there’s no known link between bipolar and paranoid schizophrenia, so I don’t think you DSis’s condition has a bearing. It does sound from what you describe that being very chatty is your personality type rather than a transient acute episode/a of mania/hypomania.

Put it this way: even whilst I was high as a kite, texting furiously, convinced of my money-making plans, simultaneously laughing and crying, and totally sexually disinhibited, I didn’t think I had bipolar (although I did).

If I were a very chatty person who was leading a functional life I would not be thinking I had bipolar.

If you don’t feel right, there’s no harm in looking for answers. I guess the real concern might be, is everyday life a struggle? Are you the best version of yourself? Could things be much better? How does this manifest itself? I wouldn’t be put off by anyone’s opinion but at the same time be mindful that serious conditions can majorly impair your life. For example, building up huge credit card debts will restrict your future. Are you doing anything like that and why might this be happening? Best of luck on your journey and I hope your next steps are are exciting and productive for you.

ADHD jumped to mind immediately.

Thank you all.I think perhaps peoples opinions a r e getting to me a bit.Normally they wouldn't and haven't in the past however I'm on zero hours so don't want.to do anything to reduce my ability to fit in with the team of all
Men.The other women have left and my boss told me he didn't want a woman elsewhere so they excluded her quiet a bit.
So deliberately mentioning my talking maybe to silence me.
When I am hyper and chatty and full of energy I am at my best.
At the moment I am trying to talk less it is quite depressing though.😢