I really need to sit down one day and type up the whole story for the forum I think it will be a good exercise for me. In the summer of 2012 I got off of all medications all drugs all alcohol completely clean and sober. I was feeling pretty good so I went to a special meditation class. This triggered something in my brain and really put me into hypomania.

A few weeks later I had to fly to Dallas Texas for a job interview. This really messed up my sleep cycle bad because the flight was at 6 AM and it's a 2 Hour Dr. to the airport and so that put me up at 3 AM. By the end of the five hour interview I was borderline hallucinating and convinced that I had psychic powers.

Fast forward a few more hours, and I was taken to the mental facility by the Dallas police against my will. I thought they were Christian angels and they were taking me to heaven. I actually asked the intake orderly at the public mental facility if he was God he smiled and said yes as a joke and all the other patients around started laughing. I thought they were all in heaven with me.

Long story short my wife flew from Atlanta to Dallas and got me out about 24 hours later but I was not stable yet and my episode continued and the second time the police took me back to the same facility I thought they were demons and they were taking me to hell this time for screwimg up my time in heaven. I actually thought my wife was a demon at one point.

It was all very biblical and very classic mania symptoms. After freaking out more than five times in 72 hours I counted the bruises from all the injections of Ativan they gave me to get stable eventually the risperidone calmed me down enough to get me back to reality.

I want to write down all the details one day cause I remember so much of it. This is just a tidbit of the story. Thanks Athena for sharing some of your experience and sparking these memories for me. I'm glad to hear many of you have had similar thoughts and experiences that helps to reaffirm our diagnosis and really draws us closer together. Thanks for letting me share.

moogs