I get periods where I have huge bursts of creativity. For example during my last manic episode (not the one I am going through now) I barely slept and started sewing replicas of costumes from shows like Game of Thrones. No patterns, just a dress form, fabric and pins. I have the unique ability to look at a piece of clothing, deconstruct it in my head and then recreate it without a pattern. During this episode I must have spent 450 hours sewing, weathering leather, hand painting fabric, hand setting studs and grommets ect. I couldn't stop, I had to keep going and going until the costumes were exact replicas of the designs I was copying.

When I get manic I can get obsessed very easily with projects. Whether is sewing, painting, making jewelry ect. I start thinking I could become the next Vivienne Westwood or become a known artist. Or I could become obsessed with studying history or literature or something. My mania either manifests in several ways. This one, where I become obsessed, or it manifests as very intense panic and anxiety, fear and violent mood swings or finally it manifests as living really fast and hard and taking a lot of stupid risks. (The last one has not happened to me since I was in my mid twenties)