Absolutely! When I am manic I frequently have this issue. I almost always have bizarre obsessions and several times I’ve been so obsessed with someone (usually an older female) that I have once felt the need to apologize for stalking her but insisting that I couldn’t help it and offering to have my husband hide my labtop (that was before we did everything in our phones). It is very embarrassing in hindsight but it is something I feel I have zero control over. Even my husband tries to step in early on if he notices a trend starting now.

It’s not always real life people for me either. I have also had total obsessions with Mary Tyler Moore (who did actually become my mentor once it slowed down) and Molly Shannon.