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Energetic and lively
ablaze
alive
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be as fresh as a daisyidiom
be full of beansidiom
boisterous
crackling
freshness
friskily
frisky
frolic
frolicsome
fury
refreshed
refreshingly
rejuvenate
rejuvenation
rumbustious

manic | American Dictionary

manic
adjective
us/ˈmæn·ɪk/
excited or anxious in a way that causes a lot of physical activity:
She was a manic talker.

Examples of manic

manic
These data, however, were based on self-report and did not include manic symptoms.
For both medications the predominant symptomatology was minor depressive (but not manic, mixed or schizoaffective) symptoms.
Drevets et al. (1997) have previously demonstrated increased resting metabolism in a more ventral subgenual cingulate region in manic patients.
Five retrospective studies employing life events interviews specifically examined the role of independent stressors in onsets of manic episodes.
A final potential confounding factor in the present study was overall severity of illness in manic versus depressed patients.
In those patients who required intervention for recurrence of mood symptoms, interventions for depressive symptoms predominated over manic symptoms in nearly a 3 : 1 ratio.
Somewhat more striking, however, was the close association between maternal postnatal illness of a manic nature and the likelihood of attachment security.
Such differences between patient groups show how manic subjects were more likely to ' ground out ', ending more blocks with a score of just one point.
Is there progression from irritability/dyscontrol to major depressive and manic symptoms?
These days many new discs seem cobbled together in a moment, thoughtless effluvia of our age's manic obsession with material production.
The final section is a manic whirligig steadily accelerating to the very limit of playability and involving extreme compression of material.
These findings are consistent with a growing consensus that manic and depressed patients are characterized by significant impairments in cognitive and particularly executive, functioning.
That is, in between manic episodes, higher emotional regulatory capacities and competencies may become evident.
Increases in manic symptoms after life events involving goal attainment.
Over 18 months, there was a significant reduction in manic relapses and improvements in overall social functioning and employment for the experimental group.
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