My only "plan" (if you can call it that) is to keep the credit cards out of my purse. I don't really realize I'm going through it when it's happening. Last time (around January/February) it wasn't until one of my friends said "Hey... you sure go shopping an awful lot" until I realized what was happening. I had been bailing out of work to go shopping and spending hundreds of dollars that we didn't really have at the time. This was actually before I even started seeing a pdoc at all.

Honestly, other than ya know... hard core binge drinking... the spending is the only thing I do that has serious long term consequences.

Other than the nice and happy hypomanias though I haven't gone through anything seriously detrimental since about February. On the mania side I mean.