I get hyper focused on various things when manic. It has been everything from the gay pride movement to the extremely conservative republican party to extremely charismatic christian. I have become extremely obsessed with people to the point that I will cry over them. Sometimes they are people in my real life, sometimes celebrities like Mary Tyler Moore or Molly Shannon. I would watch episodes of their shows and cry because I felt such intense passion to be a part of them. Crazy stuff. I don't have borderline traits. I just have Bipolar I, GAD, and possibly some (undiagnosed) OCD traits.