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Retrospective screen for high/hypomanic periods. Answer based on how you felt during your 'high' periods.
1. I need less sleep.
2. I feel more energetic and active.
3. I feel more self-confident.
4. I enjoy my work more.
5. I am more social.
6. I want to travel or I do travel more.
7. I drive faster or take more risks when driving.
8. I spend more money / too much money.
9. I take more risks in my daily life.
10. I am physically more active.
11. I plan more activities or projects.
12. I have more ideas, I am more creative.
13. I am less shy or inhibited.
14. I wear more colorful/extravagant clothes/make-up.
15. I want to meet more people.
16. I am more interested in sex.
17. I am more flirtatious/sexually active.
18. I talk more.
19. I think faster.
20. I make more jokes or puns.
21. I am more easily distracted.
22. I engage in lots of new things.
23. My thoughts jump from one topic to another.
24. I do things more quickly/easily.
25. I am more impatient/irritated.
26. I can be exhausting or irritating for others.
27. I get into more quarrels.
28. My mood is higher, more optimistic.
29. I drink more coffee or tea.
30. I smoke more.
31. I drink more alcohol.
32. I take more drugs (sedatives, stimulants, etc.).
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Angst J. (2005)
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