I'm a bit ocd too. I sometimes can't sleep or really concentrate on anything until I've completed the job or even the thought. I can clean the house to death, just stay up all night and think through every aspect, possibility, or probability that has to do with any specific situation, or eat everything in the refrigerator. There are times that only a smoke, a small drink (rarely), or a sleeping aid (most commonly) will help me calm down enough to sleep. There are still more times where I will wake up in the middle of the night with an obsessive thought and can't get back to sleep. I showed these traits long before I ever had my first hypo manic episode. I can tell you that this bugs some of my friends as I can get on a project and get so involved with it I don't seem to look up for a month or more.

GeeN, I feel for you with the severe depression and the racing thoughts. I sometimes feel, when my thoughts are racing, that someone has let fly one of those super bouncy balls (the little ones kids get in those vending machines) inside my head. There have been a few times that I have actually banged my head against a wall unrelentingly, until my husband is able to tackle me and make me stop, (lots of nice bruises and bumps after those times) trying to get it to stop.