Does anyone else have expensive taste, especially if it's not within your means to live that way? I find that I have a general taste and desire for nice things, and it is hard for me to settle for less. I grew up as an only child of a single mother and we had very little money, but somehow I have always managed to get what I wanted and do nice things...This obviously causes problems for me as I have huge grandiose ideas about things I want to buy or do and I get to fulfill very few of these. I'd say this is my default setting even when I'm depressed although I definitely go through with more purchases when hypo/manic (which I have been for the past few months I guess...). Does anyone else experience this as a part of grandiosity, exuberance for life, etc. etc? I find I have a high level need for stimulation and spending money in all ways just really meets a need in me. I find myself coveting things or experiences and doing whatever I can do to get them! I just cannot stop myself. Ugh. Anyway...off to therapy later today...Thanks for reading