Early Warning Signs of Elevated Mood (going beyond normal good mood):

1. Clean
2. Need less sleep/trouble sleeping
3. Higher than normal (for me) energy
4. Get involved in projects that I'm intensly involved in for 12+ hours. Can't s
top thinking about it even at work.
5. Priorities are thrown out the door.
6. Feel optimistic, excited, elated, higher than normal (for me) self-confidence
7. Impulse spending - usually on things related to project or hobby
8. Psychomotor agitation
9. Rage fits and periods of agitation
After recurrent episodes of this, the underlying feeling becomes familiar, even
if the project or interest differs, and a pattern emerges.