Yes, many a time. I am in my mid-60s now, so it is not as bad as it used to be. I have had instances where I went off the deep end, hallucinating and all. I told someone or several someones about what I had seen and heard and I later regretted it. They came to the conclusion that I was crazy. In a sense, I was.

That was before I got diagnosed, before I was taking any medications and before I had any clue that something was wrong with my mind. I believed what I had seen, thought it was real. It wasn't. It took me quite some time to come to the realization that it was a hallucination.

I have had a few other instances of hallucinations too. One was really bad, I consider it my worst one. For 3 days I heard a voice that told me I was going to be arrested for impersonating a police officer. I believed it. The voice went on to tell me all about how I was going to be arrested and go to jail. It told me all about what jail was going to be like. I was scared! I had no clue I was hallucinating. (None of this ever happened).

Later, when I told my psychiatrist, he explained that I have something with my Bipolar that causes hallucinations. I think he prescribed some medication that solves this, because it stopped happening, thankfully!

But, yes, I have embarrassed myself a number of times. Sometimes because of the hallucinations and sometimes just because I have been too talkative or excited or enthusiastic about something, when someone was not at all in the mood to hear about what I was communicating about. I kept on telling them all about it anyway, having no CLUE that I was in a MANIC until I later looked back on the whole situation.

Yes, I have caused myself several messy situations in life, when I have been in manics!