“She’s Out Of Control!” (Escaping Behavior / Science of Mania)

On this episode of the podcast we explore the situation of when a relationship ends and your partner is “out of control” and behaving in manic ways. We often call this “escaping” and “rebounding.” It turns out that specific types of stress actually trigger bouts of hypomania and mania. On this podcast we first define hypomania / mania. We then describe the types of stress that trigger mania. We discuss how mania works. And then we walk through case studies and illustrate how to handle this.