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Originally Posted by Red_Cyclops
Just an interest I have and thought I'd pick your brains...I love tattoo art and have many myself. However, there are many that I had done while hypomanic. While I absolutely do not regret them (they all have great significance regarding my family, especially my two disabled children), I wonder if I would have had them done had I been stable at the time.
Anyone done anything like get tattooed while in a state of hypomania? I'd also like to hear about any other somewhat out of the ordinary behavior people have shown in such a state.
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If it's something memorable and something you wouldn't regret...who cares? I wouldn't feel guilty just because you weren't in the right mind, tattoos represent who you were at each stage in your life.
I got my second tattoo completely out of the blue. I told myself "today feels like a good day to get a tattoo." So I walked in, told the artist I wanted a butterfly and a rose, then he drew it up and tattooed it. I had wanted a butterfly and a rose before, but I wasn't sure about if the day needed to be special and i didn't even pick out what exactly I wanted. It was just a nice hot spring day and I trusted the artist to draw up something I'd like. I may or may not have been manic at the time but who cares, I like my tattoo.