Hello all. Thanks in advance for your help. I am trying to determine if my friend is on drugs (most likely speed) or if he is undergoing some sort of manic phase. My friend "Joe" has went to high school with me and my 6 friends and we've known him for about 12 years now. He has depression/anxiety (or so he said) and for most of his life he was taking Paxil. He has been off his meds for about 3 or 4 years now. He has also been very loopy. A lot of his behavior is erratic. He is a very, very fast talker. I never suspected him of doing drugs. However the last 2 months my friends told me that he might be on drugs (I haven't had a chance to hang with him for 2 months now). I hung out with him this whole weekend on a roadtrip and I am starting to think they could be right. His behavior is on target with someone who is on speed. Each day this weekend he woke up 3 hours after he went to bed and started going a mile a minute. He would talk like there's no tomorrow and it's a very nervous talking. Like no one can ever get a word in. His behavior was very bizarre and it's like he's a sociopath. He was walking around my friend's apartment in his boxers half the time, he started drinking early in the morning (he has been abusing alcohol but it's almost like that's not even a factor and just adds fuel to the fire). He's also very very obsessive. He was going bald and that was a tremendous fear and cause of anxiety for him. He started talking Rogaine foam for the baldness and it's almost like an obsession. If he doesn't apply this foam on his head at the exact times he gets very very agitated. He almost has a small case of OCD. When he was drunk this weekend (we were in Boston) he was lost for about an hour and he called to tell us he was in Philadelphia and had gotten a ride there which would be impossible since it's 6 hours away. And then 20 minutes later he shows up at the apartment and had no idea that he ever told us he was in Philly. Almost like he's schizophrenic. I did not see him take any drugs this weekend but he was talking a mile a minute this weekend (in the past he always would talk this way but now it's much much worse). Last night he got lost again after the bar and a cop found him at 4 AM asleep on a sidewalk. From an outsider's point of view, do you think my friend is on drugs (if so what drug, speed?) or is he somehow manic, or does he have another disorder or does this possibly related back to his depression/anxiety that he used to take meds for? We have confronted him about his behavior but each time he denies that he's on drugs and he'll say he doesn't need another father and doesn't want anyone telling him what to do. We are obviously worried as friends. Joe is 25 years old and lives with his mom but the mom is quite oblivious to everything that is going on (she wants to take him for a stress test, i'd say there are much greater forces at work here than stress). Joe's behavior is so outside of what is normal. We are all worried because his behavior has gone way downhill in the last 2 months.