I'm diagnosed BP II. I also have rapid cycling and mixed states.

Also, from around 1995 until around 2006 (not sure of the exact dates) I believed I was the "chosen one," the protector of my neighborhood. I had magical powers, (like being able to see the future, build magical barriers, and seek out evil and cleanse it, and other things.)

A new little office building had been built at the edge of the park in my neighborhood. That's where the secret organization of evil magic people made their headquarters. They were draining all of the goodness and joy from my neighborhood and the people who lived there. It was my job to stop them, but also they knew about me and were trying to kill me.

I used to have many visual hallucinations with this (6 wheeled cars would chase me, some even looked like police cars.) I also had a lot of auditory hallucinations of people walking around outside my window at night. I called the cops multiple times to tell them I was being stalked, but they never found anyone.

I was never evaluated during this time even though everyone I knew was fully aware of what I believed. I also wasn't diagnosed with BP until 2009. My dad thought I was just making it up for attention. My friends thought it was funny and played along. One set of friends even used to say the leader of the organization would call them every Tuesday at the pay phone at Dairy Queen to make threats. Every time I went with them he never called. Anyway, when I got my BP Dx they can't backwards diagnose me with anything from that time.

I don't know why it all stopped. I moved to another state and had a trauma of losing custody of my oldest son (due to being homeless.) Anyway, my brain put the whole thing away. When I moved back I went to pick up my son from Tae Kwon Do for the first time, I turned the corner and the building was right in front of me. It all came rushing back, except this time I realized something had been really wrong with me.

As of now I get random auditory and visual hallucinations but they are rare. I also have a lot paranoia. I get into thought patterns where I start thinking I'm being spied on, people are working against me, numbers have special meanings, or other random things. But, it's all really low grade and nothing like it was back then, but I always wonder if it might happen again.