@JaneRedux, I hope you don't have diabetes. Please do get tested for it. Many in my family got it and were able to get it under control and lived long lives. Only my paternal grandmother, who also lived into her 80s, got so far as to need dialysis. She was really laissez faire about it, though. I worry I may someday get it. My last tests showed me as pre-diabetic. I had had that result years before, too, and fully normalized it for all that time.

Mania and disinhibition and hypersexuality are so common together. You're not alone in embarrassing behavior. I had so many doozies I can't remember. I put them in the past and move on. No benefit in beating yourself up over them. A few, I can even laugh at, which is classic Grandma (paternal), who also had bp1. A good approach, sometimes. Just do your best to stay stable and if hypo/mania slips through again, work to end it and move on again. I am married and wish I got "more", too. A lot of us do and perhaps even one or both of those friends of yours secretly relate.