manic
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I do experience some manic phases from time to time, where I can’t stop doing things like painting or writing songs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Mr. Hernández has a febrile energy that finds him bounding around the stage with a convincingly youthful, manic intensity, as if new love has pushed his adrenaline into overdrive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
In the aftermath, he told the BBC that it was both an "absolute manic task" and also the "least nervous I'd ever been".
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
He attributed his behaviour to a "manic episode" brought on by bipolar disorder.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
Doctors warn that young people are gaining too much weight from eating sugary snacks; parents learn that kids who drink too many sweet sodas can cycle between manic sugar“highs” and grinding sugar “crashes.”
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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