Many of the symptoms of hypo/mania have a tendency to raise cortisol levels.hypo/mania feeds into itself to perpetuate and escalate an episode Stress: from life circumstances or events So, what triggers a hypo/manic episode? The simple answer is cortisol: (put a pin in this, we'll circle back at the end of this post) While episodes might appear to follow this pattern and 'time since previous episode' might help to predict a future episode, this is not at all what triggers a manic episode to reach fruition. There's a belief (by some) that manic episodes follow a ~sinusodial (((LINK))) pattern with ~regular periods between episodes. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.

Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The mind can go either direction under stress-toward positive or toward negative: on or off.

The only thing I've found that's close is 'seasonal changes', but that's only a trigger for some and I feel like it's easy to tie 'seasonal changes' to stress/excitement/cortisol) (if anyone knows of a trigger that's not tied to cortisol, please lemme know.

(((change title to: What triggers hypo/mania? (simple answer: cortisol) )))

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