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Hypomania is a state involving combinations of: elevated mood, irritability, racing thoughts, people-seeking, hypersexuality, grandiose thinking, religiosity, and pressured speech. Bipolar II Disorder is characterized by states of hypomania and depression.
See John D. Gartner's "The Hypomanic Edge," (Simon and Schuster), which "draws a line between hypomania - recognized by such markers as inflated self-esteem, a decreased need for sleep and episodes of risky behavior - and its far more dangerous cousin, mania." He then goes on to illustrate his thesis that there may be an "up" side to the less dangerous hypomania. His thesis includes a link between "(a little) Craziness and (a Lot of) Success "also short biographies of such overachievers as Columbus, Alexander Hamilton and Andrew Carnegie."
See also: Mania and "crazes," which lend themselves to the possibility that the terrorist threats around the present world are a result, and symptoms of, a widespread form of genetically selected memes, meme viruses, and diseases in overachieving risk takers having an inflated self-esteem that are explanable by a range of abnormalities from hypomania to mania.
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