Wow, Navygrrl, can I ever relate to this!!! These cleaning whirlwinds are a regular feature of my life. Hehe, there was one time I remember standing on the counters, cleaning the kitchen cabinets, while blasting the radio and exclaiming, "They're playing my record collection!!!" It was probably 1 am. I didn't know I had bipolar at the time, it was merely one of many things I recalled upon looking back. There was another time a neighbor walked in on me cleaning louvre doors with Q-Tips. Yeah, he'll never let me live that one down... The worst is when thoughts get racing and I try to do it _all at once_. Scrub, scrub, take 3 steps, "oh, and the laundry", 3 steps, "Ack! Is that a piece of lint?!" Turn, "gotta fill the birdfeeder!" Yikes.

Exactly! I think of it as all or nothing too. Things can just be let go on and on, then suddenly, it's like I've got to clear the decks. Or accumulate "stuff" and then suddenly want to just toss it all out on the street and have people take it away (yeah, really! It can't get out of my sight fast enough...) One time cleaning out the garage, the thought occured.... huh, this is like a trip down hypomania lane....