What is the Craziest Thing You DID While Manic?

This is another thread going off the What's the Craziest Thing You Have Bought While Manic?

When I was over the top manic, I went into psychosis. My husband took me to the ER and my therapist came in too. My husband and my therapist told me that I actually took my sneaker off and started to talk into it like it was a phone.

When I heard about this, I was totally embarrassed and I had no memory of it. Pretty crazy.

How about you?

Hey SunAngel,

Hmmm.... not really done anything that extreme lol I did once go to buy a one way ticket to America over a guy I met online lol.... I also went to have sex with a guy a had only known for a few hours while I was at a wedding with my then boyfriend. I was all ready to get this guy and I a room at the same hotel my boyfriend and I had a room at. I did have sex in a toilet too... classy I know, this was all before I was diagnosised.... my get out of jail card lol

Hi Miss Laura, you put a smile on my face with that one.

Hypersexuality at it's best.

I would have sex with these two guys like every night. Not both guys at the same time, but one on one night and the other on the next.
Something else I would do was drink a lot and go out to the bars.
Thank goodness I am stable now.

Lol Thanks SunAngel,

I did forget to add I ended up breaking up with my boyfriend that night well morning at around 4am and had to endure an 8 hour train journey home with him. It was the longest 8 hours of my life but I was soooo high I didn't care. I also didn't feel anything emotion wise and everyone called me heart-less.... I still don't really see what all the fuss was about

Again, hypersexuality at it's best and also self-medicating.

Guys, I have also done this stuff, but keep it to myself because I just don't want my husband to find out.

But he was with me when I was self-medicating every night and put a stop to it dammit.

Miss Laura, I just can't think of you as heart-less. It is just the disorder that makes us do crazy things.

You guys are really helping me smile today.

Hmmm...I've done so many things. The part I hate is not remembering. I wrote a crazy letter about how I spoke to God and this gospel singer the night before I was admitted it the hospital. In my letter I said God and this gospel singer told me to stop my medicine and I told my friend I preferred cutting over taking my meds. Basically, mania causes me to be noncompliant with my meds. I'm starting to learn the warning signs of mania, however it seems so logical at the time.

Momma says a true lady never kisses and tells so I'll leave the sexual stuff out of it.

Other than those episodes the thing that pops into mind is randomly driving to another state, buying a pack of batteries then driving back home.

Lol SunAngel,

I think it was the fact I showed no emotions at all and still don't really see why people thought I was heart-less. I am caring though so I guess I can get away with it. I stay away from men in Real Life now as I only hurt them/hurt myself

Thanks so much lunarpariah. You guys are really cracking me up and I have been so sad over losing my little dog on Friday. You guys don't know how much you are helping me today.

Craziest thing by far is staring at light bulbs, the old ones, you could see the electricity running circular inside i used to think it was a mouth, talking, sending me messages, of course I'm a lousy lip reader so i would get frustrated because i couldn't understand what they wanted from me.

I get that one Ryask! Except i tries to get into someones boot, because i thought there was someone in there talking to me, i was pressing my ear to all the parts of the boot trying to hear what they were saying.... i just thought, what if there was someone in the boot?
when i was 18, i took out a 4k loan to buy stuff for my flat with, not stuff i needed just stuff i wanted.
and i quite my job in a mixed state, decided i was goin to go to college and become a make-up artist, at the time i convinced myself and everyone around me this was the right thing to do, looking back I DO NOT KNOW WHAT I WAS THINKING!

I became an escort for the few months that I was manic this has been years ok

i thought very seriously about becoming an escort while i was depressed, but the truth is, unless i'm way up there, i just dont like sex!

I got into the moonshine hard in our basement bar at the fraternity house. I was running the bar and had everything set up that I could serve people, play the music, and lounge at the same time. When other people tried to come behind the bar I would get mad and throw stuff at them. I started chugging the moonshine and whiskey and beer and that sent me full blown manic. I tore the bar flap off the side of the bar and threw it across the basement. At this point I was king of the world and felt no pain.
The guys had enough and stormed the bar and carried me to a captains chair and said they were gonna tie me down so I didnt hurt myself. This made me even more excited because I knew it would be good practice for when they finally hauled me off to the looney bin. I told them to handcuff me, bind my legs and arms and tie my head to the chair with rope through my mouth. They did and then the challenge was on. I rocked the chair til it fell to the floor. They picked me back up. I told them to loosen the handcuffs because they were hurting my wrists. Ahh but a hidden motive here. I threw myself to the ground another time to help loosen the restraints. When they set me back up I said I would behave.
I waited a while til they weren't paying attention. I slipped my head out of the rope, cutting the sides of my mouth. I then pulled the handcuffs off my wrists, taking off several layers of skin. Finally I planted my feet and pulled through at least 5 layers of heavy duty trash bags to free my arms, leaving my forearms black for over a week. I untied my legs and went sprinting for the door and ran around the neighborhood screaming.
Next my buddy pretended to be crying because he felt so bad for doing it, so i went to get my other friend. He knew it was a joke and refused to come down to help our friend. This sent me into a rage and I began screaming at him. I raised my fist to hit him, but that good person inside of me couldn't do it.
I gave up, went a cried for a while, then sat down at the computer I had taken from work without asking and started working on some computer software I wasn't authorized to copy. I finally put my 40 ounce beer down at 5 am.
Luckily my buddy's mom and dad came later that morning and got me to the ER.

I honestly don't think I've done anything too crazy while manic... Reading through these stories are really interesting, though. I've never fully realized before what could happen while being really manic, as it's never happened with me before.

All I can think of was that I burst into a fit of laughter at a dust speck I saw and I couldn't get over how amazing it was just floating in the air like that... I thought it was funny.

I did try parachuting down the stairs with a plastic bag, too. Just the last two stairs so I wouldn't get hurt.

Otherwise, I don't know. lol

Just before I was hosptalized, I was listening to a song by Beck and I perceived that the lyrics were telling me that a spaceship would be landing in my backyard and I was to go aboard and be "taken up" by it. Before that, (in the months when I was escalating higher into mania) I flew 800 miles to meet a guy I had met and fallen in love with on the internet and we shacked up for about a week. (I'm married).

ohlala: Which Beck song?! I love that guy

Hmmm, well I suppose one of the craziest things I did was run around with my boyfriend at the time & my best friend's little brother in a Honda civic, stealing random things from people's lawns to decorate my lawn with. Over the course of one night we stole 40 solar lights, 3 flamingos, a huge ceramic lighthouse, a 30 pound planter with flowers in it, 3 steel nautical star wall decorations, a big cast iron baroque wall decoration, some tiger lillies, 3 stone cherub statues, a wrought iron japonese fan, some Christmas lights, & an ADT security sign!
The sexcapades were pretty intense, as well. Took a bunch of xanax & had loud sex in a house full of people without a door, woke up in the morning confused as to why I wasn't wearing any clothes... Ran a mile & a half to give someone a blowjob in a parking lot... Etc. etc. I'll spare you guys any more details. :P

Ooohhhh mania. Tsk tsk.

One of the craziest things I almost did was to ride a unicycle down a main street in the smaller town that I live in while dressed as a clown around 10 o'clock at night. The only thing that stopped me was that I didn't know where or how to get the unicycle. At the time it seemed like a perfectly natural thing to do and was quite upset I couldn't do it. I am so thankful now I didn't find a unicycle.

I had many rounds of hypersexualilty involving both sexes while manic. I also liked speed. I took my old car out, a Toyota Supra, and found out how fast it could go on some back country roads one night.

Thx. so much you guys. You all cracked me up and put me in a great mood reading all the funny things people did while manic.

However, I do know it is a serious situation being in this state.

Thank you all so much!

Short version,

Tried to convince Police that a girl was trying to kill me, second stage after that attempt failed was to get in a taxi and grab his radio calling for police. Third, got help from a couple off the street who took me to their home. There was no one trying to kill me, I was sure convinced there was tho. Mind you I was manic with psychosis.

I finally remembered something I did while manic! My friend and I were really into the supernatural and I got her convinced that I was psychic and that there was this really cute boy being hurt by demonic spirits, and that he was calling out to us for help. I heard voices telling me things like they were going to hurt him and I kept getting images flashing into my mind of demonic pictures and of a really cute boy.

I wrote messages down, too, saying that they were from him and that we were communicating telepathically.

This was before I realized that I was suffering from psychosis and surprisingly, I still have this friend as a close best friend. Granted, we never speak about that situation anymore... But I can see why. lol

Reading this makes me really glad I don't go beyond hypomanic. Wow, it's insane what your brain can do when things get out of whack.

manic i stood up and started taken all curtains done 2am in morning and mom knew then something wrong i was 10 when that happen

Disclaimer: I have bipolar II, and hence have never been full-out manic. However, while hypo I have:

-rearranged my room at 3:00 AM
-decided to change my major (was actually a good decision!)
-thought about getting through college in 2.5 years total (possible w/ my AP credits, but not a good idea)

-planned out the courses I'd have to take each semester if I were to triple major in neurobio, psych, and philosophy. (Not going to follow through with that plan...)

-thought about taking a year off from school, moving to Scotland (from the US), and writing a novel. I even found a cute little cottage in Inverness, and asked someone from my dorm if she'd like to move there with me because I couldn't afford the rent alone and I knew she had no plans this next year. (She said no, so that didn't go through...)

I've never done anything sexual and crazy, though that may be because of my religion, and the fact that I've never gone beyond hypomania...

I've enjoyed reading everyone's stories!