 Hey what's up you guys, welcome back to my channel, if you're new here, hi hello my name is Lydia and I'm in Intel Videos here on YouTube pretty much every single day. Today I'm making a video talking about mania and how to recognize mania and how to help someone who is experiencing mania. To those of you who don't know, I have Bodeline Personality Disorder. A key feature of this disorder is mania and people don't realise that they think you have to be diagnosed with bipolar and I did until last week. And you don't need to have bipolar to experience mania. I filmed a video when I was a manic and I'm going to be doing a whole video on what mania looks like and that's going to be in there. Basically today I'm going to give you little tips and advice for how you can help or support someone you know personally that is going through mania. And let me just put this out there. They don't want me to receive help. There's not a lot you can do to make them. A quick little story telling you, I didn't mention on camera a person who lives in the same block that I live in at the moment. She lives downstairs. She is sweet but she isn't taking her medication at the moment and she is spiraling. Like she's paranoid. In my opinion, I believe she has schizophrenia. I don't know because I don't know her but what about this little mini 22nd story and because I do know I think about this. That's the point of which where they can be sectioned which means taken to hospital against their will. So the number one thing to not do is to not play with it. Yes they might seem bubbly and energetic and it might be fun to have a laugh with them but in reality they're breaking. Like they're spiraling and they're running so quickly and it's gonna crash into a major depressive episode. So don't play with the emotions. Don't make it a laughable matter. Keep the environment safe and yes people in mania are very unlikely to commit suicide. It's the accidental injuries that comes into play here. Believe me I know last week I hit myself in the head with a hammer. Accidentally I was hanging up very light and it fell on my head and I hit myself with a hammer. I fell off a chair. I fell on my bed. I fall on the stairs. I'm very clumsy when I'm thinking too quickly. I am not going to think about putting one foot in front of the other to stay stable. I'm thinking about what I'm doing in an hour. So make sure the environment is safe. Make sure someone keeps an eye on them. Keep them supported and make sure they know they've got someone. The next step would be to get a doctor involved or call their mental health team. Call whoever is their nearest like mental health team or GP or Amy whatever. Make sure the person gets rest. Now mania means you are awake basically. I'm very very simplifying this. So in mania you're very awake. You need to make sure they sleep. Sleep is key when it comes to mania and if they don't sleep it's gonna get worse. If they sleep it might stay at that level and like walk and might get down. You've got more of a chance of stabilizing out if that person is getting rest. The next one would be to know the warning signs and know the warning signs of when things are starting to get out of control because you can't be expected to know all of them. But learn a few of the signs they show before they get to manic and before they get to psychotic. Like knowing the signs is so important. The next one would be if they're on medication make sure they take it. I know. Yeah Lydia tells you to take your medication. If you if you prescribe medication what's that for? It's there to be used. Screw this to go. Stick them up. So the next one would be in emergencies if you genuinely can't take care of the person. Take them to A&E. Get a mental health assessment done and see what they say. And then after you come down to the mania, do you know what the job is then? The trigger. If you know the trigger you can do stuff to prevent a relapse of that episode. It's all about prevention. You're like yes you can take tablets yes you can do this yes you can do that but you cannot change someone's brain chemistry. Like you can't change what's gonna happen. If they're manic you need to follow certain steps to try and bring them back down to a more reasonable level. That's like their baseline. Everyone has a different baseline. Some people are happier. Some people are just monitoring and then there's me who's just always depressed. But when I get manic, they're when I'm manic I'm still also depressed. So it's quite a comfortable thing. These are just a few little tips I wanted to share with you guys today. Patreon shout out will be at the end of the video as it is always. If you are new here hit the subscribe button and I will see you guys tomorrow with a new video. Peace.