God yes!!!....at the start of my last manic episode I naturally felt I could run the world....I got myself a really great job, house, boyfriend and for a while seemed to be pretty perfect-I loved the way I looked and saw no problems at all. Then the agitation began...no one was keeping up with me....."why is everyone else so slow/stupid?"...3months later I was hallucinating and recieving messages from religous statues. Lithium has quashed all my mania it's like a dam keeping the water at bay....I've been through drug addiction and nothing can compare to those first few weeks of mania....still would rather just be "consistent"