19-06-24 Ways to Induce Hypomania
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How to induce hypomania:
- Deep connection with manic / bipolar people
- Psychedelics
- Workout (to boost emotional state) followed by ideation
- Music (to boost emotional state) followed by ideation
- Motivational video / audio (to boost emotional state) followed by ideation
- Extremely intense life changing
- Exposure to worldview breaking ideas
- Apply latticework of mental models, with model after model after model, to get into state
- Apply ever mental model to every other mental model, especially itself
- Abstract over every object
- X (look at meta x, decompose x, recombine x) over every object
- Sleep Deprivation / Stay up extremely late (this almost always comes over strongest in the nights, while mornings are clear)
- Do extreme exposure therapy / engage with fears intensely and come out on top
- Take a nap in early afternoon. Workout late, at or after midnight. Pace the house ideating.
- Induce Anger
- Intense events - quarrels with lovers, neighbors or relatives, job loss or gain, breakup & divorce or marriage
- New relationship energy / limerence - heightened emotional and sexual excitement
- Aggressively overcome a fear
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