Symptoms of mania include:
- Racing speech and thoughts
- Increased energy
- Decreased need for sleep
- Elevated mood and exaggerated optimism
- Increased physical and mental activity
- Excessive irritability, aggressive behavior, and impatience
- Hypersexuality, increased sexual thoughts, feeling or behaviors; use of sexual language
- Reckless behavior, like excessive spending, making rash decisions, and erratic driving
- Difficulty concentrating
- Inflated sense of self-importance