the reason i ask is this. i went through an episode similiar to yours about 15 years ago. i was on elavil and i drank a couple of glasses of wine.......what happened next was bizarre beyond belief...i was at a big photography workshop in Yosemite and pretty much went through the weirdest night ever. i do not remember class the day after the episode. i talked to a psychiatrist then, but i had not been diagnosed at that time as having BP.....the psychdoc was certain that the alcohol and elavil just hit me at the right and escalated what would have been coming on anyway...pat