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Hi. I don't know where to post this, so I decided to post on this community on Lemmy. If I posted on Reddit, I'd probably get shit on or they'd delete my post because it keeps saying "removed by filters".

Anyway, I'm not asking for a 100% diagnosis and I will tell a medical professional.

So, I suddenly started feeling disorganized thoughts and started thinking illogically. This does happen sometimes. If I were to talk to someone, I'd have very impulsive, emotional behaviors and I would definitely say things I normally wouldn't say otherwise. I'm trying to calm down from it and talk about it because I WILL explode if I bottle it up.

I will feel really energetic and happy like I have recently, full of ideas but unsure where to start. It does sorta feel like my ADHD due to not being able to focus and not doing things that are "boring" or too analytical.

Well, then I started having some pretty bad intrusive thoughts. I couldn't shake the feeling, though I knew it didn't logically make sense, that everyone was acting weird and was trying to hurt me. Sometimes, when people change their tone or act weird, I think I'm in a different dimension, one of the things my brain tries to convince me.

There was one time I really felt motivated and thought I could be like Indiana Jones.

One time, about 2 years ago, I was going through a rough period and I think I'd gotten diagnosed with bipolar later in that year. Well, I can't tell if it's anxiety, mania, or psychosis signs, but I genuinely couldn't shake the feeling that my friends acting different was because they'd been replaced by aliens or I was sent to some sort of dimension/universe where my friends didn't exist and had been replaced by evil people, rather than just the logical conclusion that they were upset, which turned out to actually be that they were cruel pieces of shit, but that's beside the point.

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[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

You 100% should go to a professional. The thing about mental health is it comes down to if its effecting your life and it very much sounds like it is. The average person has fleeting thoughts but they are usually fleeting. Maybe a bit of depression or even self evaluation will have them linger on them but usually that means they recognized the thoughts as bad or abnormal. Not everyone is logical so simply saying illogical thoughts is a bit tough to say. Its hard for me to describe fleeting thoughts as anything but crazy despite the negative conotations with the word. Its something that should last no more than seconds and at most minutes in a bad spot. If its lasting more you really should seek professional help. I don't know what bipolar is like though so don't know how much this might be a part of it.

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