My episodes were only hypomanic, but the same applies. I felt what I said and did was right at the time. I have insulted coworkers in software design meetings several times. I felt humiliated when a younger coworker I was mentoring asked me about it. He thought I berated people as part of my strategy to pitch the implementation I was suggesting. He said he wasn't sure he could do that. I told him it was a personality flaw he would do well not to emulate. I had a couple of times when someone sat down with me after a meeting to ask me what the hell was wrong, wondering if I was drunk or stoned because I used incomplete sentences to explain disconnected thoughts. I mentioned in another thread earlier how lucky I am to have low impact on my career.