There's a little bit of overlap in what you describe of your experience of OCD behaviors and what I experience sometimes when hypomanic. I often realize after a point that I'm engaging in an obsessive behavior, and find that I'm unable to stop wanting to do it. I can stop myself from knitting/doing dishes/watching the same television show over and over/whatever, but whatever else I do, I spend the whole time thinking about it and wanting to do it until the urge passes, up to a day or two later (and I have to drug myself to sleep, when it's that bad, because my brain won't shut up at all). But the onset for me is really subtle. I often don't realize I'm doing it until my wrists start hurting, for example, or my husband mentions that I seem kind of manic.
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There's a little bit of overlap in what you describe of your experience of OCD behaviors and what I experience sometimes when hypomanic. I often realize after a point that I'm engaging in an obsessive behavior, and find that I'm unable to stop wanting to do it. I can stop myself from knitting/doing dishes/watching the same television show over and over/whatever, but whatever else I do, I spend the whole time thinking about it and wanting to do it until the urge passes, up to a day or two later (and I have to drug myself to sleep, when it's that bad, because my brain won't shut up at all). But the onset for me is really subtle. I often don't realize I'm doing it until my wrists start hurting, for example, or my husband mentions that I seem kind of manic.