Happiness Can Put You In Danger
When we experience happiness, we tend to look toward exciting and positive things in our lives to help sustain the good feeling. However, in a journal called “Comparing Happiness and Hypomania Risk: A Study of Extraversion and Neuroticism Aspects” by Tabitha Kirkland, June Gruber, and William A. Cunningham shared that high levels of positive affect have been linked with hypomania risk: a set of cognitive, affective, and behavioral characteristics that constitute a dispositional risk for future episodes of hypomania and mania.
For a person diagnosed with bipolar disorder, they are deep into pleasurable acts during these manic episodes. More often than not, these acts can put them at risk – such as going on an uncontrollable shopping spree, binge eating, relentless dancing, sexual leaching, and drug abuse. Mania can also spark delusions such as making the person think they’re immortal and living out their fantasies.