I know I'm manic when I can't sleep and am very irritable. I never become super happy. That would be too much to hope for. Instead I get really emotional, talk really fast, and have some many racing thoughts that I want to beat my head on a wall until they go away. I get lots of ideas but don't necessarily have the energy to do anything of them. Just want to crawl in a whole. I am in a manic episode now going on 6 days. Ugh!!!!!