I've had nearly overwhelming urges to steal, this was long before I was dx'd BP2, physical really. and I remember thinking one time that I needed to do it to be okay. But the items in question were large/valuable, & always at work. I worked for a large computer company, was trusted big time, could easily have made another seem responsible. I knew I'd be caught (obviously my mania stopped before I got to projecting outcome!).

I have no doubt that, had a CD or costume jewelry been the product in question, I would have taken it and moved on.

Amazing how obvious my manic episodes are in retrospect. I had a psyc minor in under grad but clearly didn't learn about bipolar disorder.