I had a major neck injury which preceded my original mania episode. Prior to that I was out of control and reckless. Didn't really know the cause, just thought it was youthful attitude. However, after about two weeks of not sleeping I finally called a therapist after I started having thoughts that IBM was monitoring or trying to protect me. I thought everything that was happening to me was a test from the government or to make me into a civil solider. I thought the center of the world was coming to my hometown and the rest of the world was falling apart. I had thoughts that everything was falling apart and failing around me.

Basically I thought the world was destructing, when in actuality it was just me that was falling apart.