So, I did a search on this topic and nothing relevant came up. So maybe I am just as crazy as I think I am...

Does anybody else, when they're hypo or manic, find themselves exaggerating or lying to people, fully aware that you're lying?
In a few of the hypomanic episodes I've had in the past (and actually a LOT during this last one) I found myself exaggerating my achievements and abilities to people, to the point of actually kind of making stuff up. Not to people I know, obviously, but to strangers that I'd meet (or men that I'd flirt with, or whatever...) I'm not talking about delusions of grandeur, because I obviously knew that the s*** I was saying wasn't true. But it was totally believable. And I did think I was pretty fantastic at the time, but yeah. Totally lying... about a lot of stuff.

Am I just a really horrible person, or has anyone else found themselves doing this? I'm so embarrassed about it now. Like, really embarrassed. I'm really hoping I never run into these people ever again, or that the things I said don't come back to bite me in the *** somehow. I'm newly diagnosed, and having a pretty serious identity crisis, trying to piece together which things are symptoms of my illness and which things are actually just me...