When I am manic I too, buy things that I would not regularly buy. Last time, a few months back I bought two big screen tv's. I'm the type of person who would keep my small old school tv until all the colour tubes went on it before thinking of buying another. Luckily I was able to return one of them. Usually tho it's just normal things that I want like clothes and things for my house. Tho I have a "collecting" problem, I have so many collections I don't know what to do with.

The real problem is that I am on disability so I have a pretty limited budget already. I only use cash, no debit, or credit cards. So if I am manic and am on a mad spending frenzy I can do some serious damage in a short amount of time. My only saving grace is that I'm addicted to thrift stores and those items take longer to add up.

I don't usually realize until after the storm, sometimes I try to question myself during and sometimes it works, but if I am too manic, I have no insight.