What Do You Do When You're Manic/Hypomanic?

I think you have some healthy hypomanic tendenicies, I admire these healthy tendencies that you have.

I can do healthy things too when I am hypo.

When I am manic, nah, it is not really healthy tendencies I tend to do.

Well....

This one time, I was working in an office/clerical position. It's the worst kind of work for me, and I was bored out of my mind most of the time anyway. Well I went for a short walk during my lunch break, and noticed some walnuts under a tree, and was like "I'm gonna forage me some walnuts!". So I collected a few before going back. And I did say to a co-worker, "Hey, look! I found walnuts", because I thought that was the coolest thing ever. She didn't seem very interested, though.

But I then realized that if I wanted to eat the walnuts, I would need to find something to crack them open with. I looked around the office for a bit: "hmmm, stapler? nah... paper cutter? nah....". When I couldn't find anything there, I started exploring the building. I finally found a clamp in the maintenence closet, and tried that. But it didn't quite work. But then I found a hammer. And I found myself sitting in the middle of a (fortunately rarely populated) hallway, trying to crack the walnuts open with a hammer. The only person to see me was someone from the maintenence crew, and they asked what I was doing. I answered, "I'm trying to open these walnuts with a hammer." He just left it at that.

I think that I'm very fortunate that I didn't get in any kind of trouble for that. That was long before being diagnosed, so I had no clue what was possibly going on. It seemed perfectly reasonable at the time, and I thought that it was just out of extreme boredom.

OH MY!!! Thanks for this thread and to everyone for sharing.I was laughing and crying at the same time because I have done/do most all of these things myself.