Hi there, I'm new to this site... new to really talking about my issues involving bipolar disorder at all. I am a 23 year old female, living in Canada and a hairstylist by trade. I wanted to share my experiences, or atleast my most recent episodes, and see if anyone experiences anything similar. Well, I'm sure some of you have. Positive, really.. it's just kind of comforting to hear about it. OK. So my most recent manic episode was triggered by a break up (as was the one before that). Of course the day it happened I was a little shook, cried a little, not much.. felt confused and worried about what would happen with our belongings, rent, our cats... the next day, felt unstoppable. I had it all planned out. I would take my belongings to my sister's place, leave basically all of my furniture with him. I would find homes for our kittens. I would save money for a month or two while not paying rent at my sisters, and then move across the country to a bigger city I had family in. So that night, I decided to go drinking with my best friend. Put on my brighest pink corset and lipstick, tightest little black skirt and stockings and decided to go dancing at this new club. I contacted one of my ex's new friends and invited him to join us. (which he did.) The next day, I packed up all of my belongings and had some friends help me drive it all to my sisters, just as planned. I took one of the kittens with me. I still felt on top of the world, felt completely unaffected by the breakup or anything else for that matter. After only a day or two I realized that living with my sister would be extremely inconvenient, and finding homes for the cats was not going to be easy. I had one of my clients help me pack everything up, and move it back into my apartment (luckily the ex did not take the furniture.) That's when the crazy spending and partying started. I bought a BUNCH of things to redecorate... New shower curtain, soap and toothbrush holders (simply for the purpose of revamping.. i already had these things) new bedsheets, new pictures for the walls.. I bought hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of clothes, not to mention BOOZE. I began dranking pretty much every night for a couple of weeks. Then on top of that, began doing cocaine and other drugs like M. I went to work without sleep a couple of times, hung over the rest of the time.. but oddly energetic. I was doing haircuts that normally took me an hour in 20 minutes. I slept with my exes friend, as well as someone I had dated in the past who I had sworn to never talk to again. I took my clothes off while drunk, at parties at my OWN apartment and danced around and made videos of it. My mood switched back and forth between happy and unstoppable to irritable... it just so happens the other day at work, I was irritable and my manager wanted to have a routine talk, the same one she had with the rest of the staff.. basically a mini evaluation. I lost my ****, and quit my job on the spot.

anyway here i am now. let me know your thoughts.