You Know You are Manic When .....

I would give the world right now for just one ounce of energy that comes with manic...........

Amen to that!
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*When it seems practical to transfer the contents of your clothing cupboard into a shopping trolley.
*when you believe riding a bicycle naked is acceptable.
*when you walk around a hospital looking for substances to inject.
*when wearing your t-shirts inside out feels right.
*when you start administering your meds suppository.
*when you realize you could probably sit here for hours on end, typing instances of manic delusional behaviour lol.

Whats up, Riff? There's nothing wrong with that
Thanks for a really great idea (highfive)

When you've spent your entire severance package in 3weeks ;-(

Wow... so not just me then. Last time I got a payout I gave it to my Dad before I blew it... I was seriously thinking of buying a boat!

Now that's really not funny!!!

N0t funny at all! I'm jobless AND pennyless... Stupid stupid w0man!

*when you buy a new computer on impulse.
*when your friends are scared because you're trying to find time and demand and explanation from it.
*when you spend over £200 on pens cannot stop drawing on everything that sits still long enough, like patches of the garden.
*you got sent home from work for distracting everyone else.
*mysterious, possibly ghost, cats are in your house.

Boy, all of those are totally scary! I've considered some of them. Besides, who needs sleep? All sleep does is interrupt what you want to get finished.
No one else knows what you have going on, so they can't step in so you can take time out for you to get sleep.
I juggle enough that I don't want my hubby to help. I have it under control!

Ohhh I have never laughed so hard . I actually did this ... Ohhh laughing harder now . Thank you for reminding me ... Still laughing ...

haha, I had a pretty good hypo episode this morning, so I think I'll share it.

...when it's 4AM and not only can you not sleep, but you can't stop admiring yourself in the mirror and dancing around the room.

...when you decide to randomly paint on an index card, and it actually turns out good.

...when you spill glitter all over your shirt by accident and decide to paint dollar signs and curse words on your body.

...when you compare your work to Mozart.

...when you decide to have a bubble blowing party. alone.

...when it's 5AM and you're in the kitchen dancing.

...when you look back on your periods of deep self loathing and laugh hysterically.

...when you can no longer read your own handwriting - and really don't care.

The woman in front of you at the ATM flicks her cigarette out her car window and suddenly it is your job to inform her she is littering on YOUR earth.

You have random sex with some guy and a week later he is your roommate.

You decide to start a Daisy Girl Scout troop and you realize you cannot effectively communicate to a room full of 5 year olds.

(Time to revive this thread. It's one of my favorites...)

You pay over $100 on Ebay for a cd that's not particularly hard to get (while on a shift at a job where you aren't supposed to leave where you are, let alone use the computer...) Then are thrilled out of your mind for having won it, thanking the seller profusely (when it really should be the other way around, right?!). Guess you never know when you're bidding against someone in a similar state...

Ahh, Ebay. (I stay away now.) And alas. What I wouldn't give to have all that money (and far more) back. (I almost kept one of my most completely ridiculous purchases just as a reminder of how carried away I can get. But it was really too embarrasing even for that.)

And of course buying another copy later on.... just in case.

- you eat under 900 calories a day

- coffee has no effect on you

- you wake up at 2, do nothing, can't sleep, dance to electronic music

- flirt with guys you would never in no way ever date

- not use a condom

- make friends with everyone, and then when coming down, ignore them

- go out to lame bars, get wasted as if it was never planned

- give your number out to random guys

- manage to get a 4.0 despite this all

- think that your brain is so special and no one can possibly understand and those who are privy to your world are the most special

I totally did that too! So glad I'm not the only one!

When you redecorate your room even if you did so a week ago.

When you play alone at the pool and brag about it to your dogs cause they can't get in (in February)

When you can't stop dancing and singing to Hannah Montana at the mall.

When you use your 8 hours for sleep at night for using all the beauty things you found on your mom's drawer.

When the 5-years-old kid you're babysitting falls asleep on you cause he's tired of all the chocolate binging and fun races.

When you were in a hurry for nothing and ended up leaving home with shoes that don't pair.

When you call a baby a 'sucker' cause you stole their toy.

Wow. And I thought my mania was bad. After reading this, clearly I don't know what half of it. The only thing I have in common is Giggling at my own non-funny jokes. Then again, I'm only 25 and still in one of my first few manic episodes. I guess this is what I have to look forward to. Thank you for the insight.

It usually starts slowly.....

the hair gets cropped...
the ears get pierced again...

all 300 CDs get alphabetized....

you paint a room in this sponge technique you absolutely must use...at 2am

you're up doing housework while the painted room dries...

you go from being so depressed two days ago that you couldn't open a can of soup to baking homemade bread, making homemade macaroni and cheese, homemade turkey pot pie, BBQ pulled pork, and this *fabulous* recipe for Moroccan chicken...

eating the fabulous food above is nothing short of orgasmic...

you have phone sex with a total stranger you met online

you show up at work at 4:30 am for an 8 am shift....people who are normally there at that hour ask you if you are manic...

you discover the meaning of all life and communicate directly with God in what you can only describe as an ecstatic Kundalini experience...

you write about it furiously in your journal so that the unenlightened may someday come to understand....

a few days later, the phone wakes you up (from the couple of hours of sleep you've had that night), but nobody is there...but you *know* that it was God giving you a wake-up call (like in a hotel)...

the music on the radio is speaking to you...and only you...

you move three times in four months, once cross-country...

oh, I could go on and on and on.....

Hmmm yes i can relate to these too.

I just get angry, paranoid and eventually psychotic. Definitely not a pleasant experience for myself, or those around me.