so a little over a year ago I was in a pretty deep mixed state (mostly manic) and had some symptoms I had not had yet to date. I had an overinflated sense of my intelligence, I thought I was on track to becoming the next Ludwig Boltzmann, even though I'm failing out of my classes. I was up for 5 days straight, and began to believe that I had died in a car wreck I was in when I was 18 (25 at the time of this) and I was in hell so I couldn't die. this believe made me do things that were risky like crossing busy 4 lane streets when I didn't have the right of way. I thought being in hell the worst that could happen to me is I end up in the hospital, but even that didn't happen.

I also engaged in self harm for the first time during this episode cut and burned myself (all coverable with a long sleeve shirt) but as I sat in class I could feel others eyes on me and I felt they knew what the injuries were from and that I was the one who made them. so some strong paranoia as well.

To cap all of this off at the end of the 5th night with no sleep I have a box fan on in my hallway and instead of hearing its whirring noise, I hear the phrase "go to bed" being repeated infinitely.

Didn't really have much in the way of visual hallucinations except it was like I was watching a movie and every frame or so there was something that didn't fit the rest of the picture (if that makes sense) kind of like the beginning of fight club if anyones seen that.

And going along with all of this there was a very strong sense of derealization. like I said before it was more like I was watching a movie than living my life. it was my most bizarre and scary episode to date and I hope nothing like this ever happens to me again, at least in this severity.

Thoughts? Do you guys feel this meets criteria for a psychotic episode?