Hello Nine: Well... I don't know if what you describe is typical of some particular kind of mental illness. But I'm familiar with the experience. I'm an older person now. And I've pretty-much gotten over it at this point. But for years I would get all excited about some new project. I'd go out & buy whatever I needed in order to pursue it. Then after a few days or weeks, I'd decide I didn't want to do it anymore & I'd just drop the whole thing. I think I probably spent quite a bit of money this way over the years.

I've never been diagnosed as being Bipolar. But one psychiatrist I saw suggested it might be a part of what's gone on with me. For my part, I kind-of think what I have experienced was perhaps a form of mania. A lot of times, how these episodes would strike would be that I would be unable to sleep. I'd get some "hair-brained" idea spinning around in my head... building castles in the sky, so to speak. Sometimes I'd be awake almost all night imagining all of the fantastic things I would accomplish doing whatever it was I envisioned I was going to do! Sometimes that day the fatigue itself would be enough to douse my fantasies with cold water. But at other times, as I wrote above, I would continue to be captivated by them until I had spend a bunch of money on whatever I thought I needed to pursue my dream.