Absolutely! Until several years ago I only sought help for the depression, when my doctor put 2 and 2 together and dx me with bipolar and discussed treatment options I immediately told him I needed the mania. I didn't have a problem with the mania, just the crash afterwards.

I wish there was a way to have a "controlled" mania. I understand that in my manic stages I thought I could do everything and anything. I was a home improvement junkie while manic. I can see now that this was stressful for my husband.

During my last manic stage I had the livingroom, bathroom, hall and one bedroom torn apart. When I would reach a point in one room that I could not continue without my husband's assistance, I'd start on the next. My husband said "if you rip apart one more room before we finish one, I'm leaving" he was only half kidding. There was always the risk that I'd crash before the project was finished.

The kitchen was my staging area and while cleaning it up one evening I stood there in the middle of the room with all of the furniture and supplies heaped up. I looked around, looked at the clock. Hubby was going to be home from work in less than two hours. I was absolutely certain that I could paint the entire kitchen and diningroom and put everything back before he got home from work. Luckily he knows me well enough that he had removed all sources of money from the house to prevent me from doing just that. What I didn't realize at the time was he would pull into the driveway every evening and sit in his car to pepare himself to face what I had done that day.

I miss it! I used to be able to get up, snow blow the entire driveway, put an entire meal in the slow cooker including bread in the bread maker, throw a load of laundry in the washer and fold the stuff from the dryer, shower and get four kids ready for school and day-care and be at work before 6 am.