Spent my family into bankruptcy...twice. Obviously I used to have a lot of manic episodes, and they lasted quite a while---long enough to max out my credit cards and furniture store credit lines. Now that I'm medicated and have no money, I manage it just fine. Bills and rent are paid, and I have a little in savings.

Other memorable manic moments: The time I threw a change of clothes in the back of an acquaintance's pickup truck and went to Ensenada, Mexico on a Friday night, where I danced on the bar with a bottle of mescal in my hand. And then there was the time I got sent home from work because I was disrupting meetings and skipping through the lobby singing at the top of my lungs.