I've only had a few manic episodes. One was very SEVERE. I was super irritable, didn't have any control over my actions or decisions..in fact, I don't remember the majority of it. It lasted about 2 weeks and I was randomly mumbling nonsense and I was hallucinating. Everyone thought that I suddenly started taking hard drugs. I had a more mild one about a week ago. I decided that I was going to fly to San Diego out of the blue on Sept 29th. I felt super smart and capable of anything (which I kind of proved that I am). For the next 2 days, the ONLY thing I did was work on getting myself plane tickets. I called every single airline asking them about donated air miles, I called every military organization to try talk them into flying me there because my younger brother is a marine and he's stationed in San Diego. I was so ridiculously into this one thing and I even looked up celebrities that were huge supporters of the troops (Charlie sheen, Denzel, Bruce willis, etc) I then found out who their managers or agents were and called and left messages with every one trying to get help getting a plane ticket to "go see my marine brother". I also called governors and senators. By the way, the only call back that I received was from Sen. Al Franken's office (MN senator). Eventually, I figured out $ for the plane and hotel..I flew to San Diego on October 1st! I stayed until Oct. 4th when I flew back. The majority of my manic episodes are like the last one but usually not so crazy. I tend to get a random idea and I will become obsessed. I will do whatever it takes to accomplish whatever idea it was that I set out to do. It's a shame that my ideas aren't like "find a cure for cancer" or "make a million dollars"