Manic symptom include:
- strong changes in mood-either unusually laughing or ridiculous, or very reactive, inflamed, pushed or hostile
- surrealistic highs in self-esteem - for example, a teen who feeling all authoritative or like a superfighter with special powers
- serious increase in vigor and the ability to go with short or no rest for days without feeling drawn
- increase in talking - the teenager talks too much, too fast, switches topics too quickly, and cannot be interrupted
- distractibility - the young's attention moves perpetually from one thing to the next
- repetitive high risk-taking behavior; such as, abusing alcoholic drink and does drugs, reckless driving, or sexual promiscuity
