You know your are manic when...

SunnyD · Sep 02, 2010, 06:35 PM

I don't know if this subject has been posted here but I thought I would add it. It is intended to add knowledge of mania indicators to others while at the same time posting funny or shocking things you have done.

I started a craft business in one day and I hate crafts.

blueoctober · Sep 02, 2010, 07:01 PM

Great thread Sunny!

You know you're manic when.....

You decide to start a horse cookie business..........but you hate baking.

You spend $5000.00 in one day on clothes. The sales lady was happy with her commission that day!

I think credit card companies should send me Thank-you cards. They would need to read "Thanks" on the front and on the inside "For Having Bipolar". Hey I should start a greeting card business LOL!

PT52 · Sep 02, 2010, 08:32 PM

...you spend an hour in Payless shoes, intent on buying two pairs of shoes that you don't need just because they have buy one-get one sale. And I pretty much hate both pairs.

Gotta admit, blue, you definitely got me beat!

BNLsMOM · Sep 02, 2010, 08:37 PM

You know you're manic when you buy a "real fixer upper" on a whim even though you have no home improvement skills....

...and years later, once you gotten out from under that one, you do it again, still with no skills to speak of....

Sep 02, 2010, 09:10 PM

You know you're manic when...

You journal enough to put together a novel in a matter of days.

joe50000 · Sep 02, 2010, 09:14 PM

I'm bipolar II but my hypomania has led to massive spending sprees, giving away money to friends, going on spontaneous vacations, and going clubbing for days on end in Vegas. I also stay up for days on end, with endless energy.

There have been positive benefits though. I can stay really focused when hypomanic, so I can actually be really productive. The only problem is that I can't control when I have episodes; stress and other events don't really trigger my mood swings. When I have depressive episodes, I have almost no energy and can barely bring myself to leave the house.

PT52 · Sep 02, 2010, 10:21 PM

I want an autographed copy when it's published!

BlackPup · Sep 03, 2010, 09:15 AM

normally I can tell if I'm hypo manic when I start seeing really important patterns in the numbers or letters in front of me... I'm meant to be seeing patterns - it is data analysis - but when I start thinking that there is a pattern in the last digits of three digit numbers or something equally meaningless...
now my pdoc is making me doubt if thats all, coz he thinks I'm hypo when I think I'm normal...

littlepieceofheaven · Sep 03, 2010, 10:12 AM

I have had some great manic moments and some not so great manic moments. When I have great ones, say I am at home that day, I will clean the house top to bottom with a tooth brush and some bleach until it is sparkling. Then I may take a ride to Wal-Mart and buy a new rug or vase or framed art or all of those things. When I am manic I also like to change all the furniture in my house.... i have the strength of 500 men.
Then there is the bad manic.... I am easliy annoyed, snappy, crabby.... Sleep issues, crying and yelling spells and then some phychosis.
Never a happy medium.....

BNLsMOM · Sep 03, 2010, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by BlackPup

normally I can tell if I'm hypo manic when I start seeing really important patterns in the numbers or letters in front of me... I'm meant to be seeing patterns - it is data analysis - but when I start thinking that there is a pattern in the last digits of three digit numbers or something equally meaningless...
now my pdoc is making me doubt if thats all, coz he thinks I'm hypo when I think I'm normal...

My least favorite time of night is 10:37 because if you add up all the digits you get 11. When you add those digits you get 2 which divided by itself equals exactly half of itself. I started thinking about that last summer when freaky shadows and things were happening to me, always at 10:37 at night. I figured it had some significance.

So yesterday I was driving behind a car that had a license plate whose numbers worked the same way. I freaked out for a minute, but today I forget what the numbers were.

I would describe myself as depressed right now, but my mind is doing all sorts of freaky manicy things at the same time.

polyonamous · Sep 05, 2010, 08:02 AM

I signed up for a £400 course on counselling and psychotherapy from a pop up site cos coincidences kept bringing counselling and further ed to my attention that day, i thought god wanted me to be a counsellor and was sending me messages! now ive got to stress over finishing all these assignments for a qualification i will never use.. but at least im an "expert patient!"

also get tattoos done on a whim! but doc thinks thats normal cos his kids are covered in tats!

Amazonmom · Sep 05, 2010, 03:25 PM

You are skipping down the street in high heels planning out how to flirt with your professor enough to get out of 6 weeks of back work. It worked, and I didn't feel remotely weird about it.

Now I do though.

thinker22 · Sep 05, 2010, 07:55 PM

You start bouncing up and down on a car to work its shocks like a custom low-rider, laughing all the while about how fun it is.

Or,

You jump out of a slow moving car and take off sprinting up the street for a couple of blocks, then stop and sit down.

Yes, I've done both. The latter was actually a mixed episode though.

Or,

You drive all the way across the country (CA to MA) and back with practically no sleep in 10 days.

BlackPup · Sep 06, 2010, 09:03 PM

One pdoc appointment I was so completely off the planet, I was bouncing around, laughing and talking like crazy refusing to make new appointments coz I was "perfectly normal"... the next appointment my doc said that after I left the receptionist, who was new and had never seen a manic episode before, had asked "Is that what mania looks like?"
Great, now I'm a learning aid - but I still maintain that I was perfectly normal!!!

dustintochampagne · Sep 06, 2010, 10:29 PM

i usually know that i am on my way up to mania when my skin sensations become much more intense. certain areas being touched can become almost unbearable. for instance: my wrists (this is really a downer during winter, when i would prefer to be wearing hoodies/sweaters/etc.) or collared shirts bother the back of my neck.

sleep becomes in my mind at the time, "useless" - there could be so much more being done with that time. who invented sleep anyway?

i want to clean, clean, clean.

and then i want to go out and be around people and make my best attempts at being more outgoing, hilarious, sometimes even what i guess at the time i may consider slightly flirty, than i would ever attempt while stable.

PT52 · Sep 07, 2010, 12:33 AM

imyourmonster: thank you for that! It never occurred to me to connect skin sensations with a manic phase..it makes a lot of sense now. I absolutely hate to be touched, particularly by people I don't know well or don't know at all. It's almost like my skin feels jumpy..that's probably not the best description, but it's as close as I can do. Tags on any clothing drive me nuts, too.

lotusflames · Sep 07, 2010, 05:08 AM

i dont sleep, dont need to sleep, heck i did a 16 hour night shift over the weekend cos i didm't need tos leep!

i booked a holiday on a whim for next year and am stuill looking for one in may too.

dustintochampagne · Sep 08, 2010, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by PT52

imyourmonster: thank you for that! It never occurred to me to connect skin sensations with a manic phase..it makes a lot of sense now. I absolutely hate to be touched, particularly by people I don't know well or don't know at all. It's almost like my skin feels jumpy..that's probably not the best description, but it's as close as I can do. Tags on any clothing drive me nuts, too.

no problem!

it's a sign that i just learned to recognize very recently. i try & cope with by wearing perhaps slightly looser clothing during the time, or my most "comfiest" i guess.... soft, no tags, collars, etc. i find it can help sometimes.