You know you're bipolar when....

When you fall asleep and wake up completely energized 3 or 4 hours later

When you feel you can conquer the world one day and be ready to leave it the next.

- when you're constantly apologizing to your friends for falling off the radar.

- when you try to sleep but you have 2 or 3 songs playing in your head at the same time.

- when you have an entire shelf in the closet devoted to "soap making", even though you've never made soap and have no intention of making soap.

- when you manically clean the entire house on friday, and then saturday can't manage to put anything away and you muck it all up again because you feel like death.

Your closet is organized by brands, then colors, then seasons
Your pantry is organized like grocery shelves
Your linen closet looks like the department store shelves
And your finances look like Congress and the White House are managing them!

You stay up all night drinking coffee in Starbucks and then stay up all day the next day shopping and disassociated from the world.

You know that you are bipolar when you are inspired by the discovery that there is a mini horse farm down the street from your house and that you are going to have your very own farm, a mini one. Complete with mini horses, donkeys, goats, cattle, chickens and anything else that comes in "mini" or dwarf.

When a fire escape seems like a perfectly legitimate way to exit a party.

When you buy plane tickets to Brazil on a whim.

.... when you have absolutely no idea where you are mood-wise. Is this baseline? Is it a mild depression? Is it heading down, or up? Where am I?!?!?!! bahahahaha.

And then deciding "eff it" and play a video game and ignore your moods completely for hours.

Everyone asks if you are "okay" when you are your normal self because they are used to you being manic.

You know you're bipolar when...

You are convinced that you are an empath and destain to save the world so you call up your mom's friend and tell her about your "special powers".

When you find yourself writing numbers on the walls in your house

When you find yourself being asked if you are on drugs constantly by random people.

Lillyleaf, people have really asked you if you are on drugs?!I am sure people have wanted to ask me that.....

When people think you are drunk and you are really just manic.

When you decide its perfectly normal to bleach your own hair (after convincing myself I was an expert watching YouTube videos) - and your hair falls out.

When you dye your own hair at least once a month and have so much makeup that you could never possibly by in a lifetime

When you spend the money from your college graduation party on makeup

When you "forget" about friends and then one day decide you want to talk to them and it will be perfectly okay - but they don't see it that way

When you decide it is a great idea to get into your car and move to Nashville (from Mass) - without a plan or a job.

When people ask if you ever stop talking - or when people cannot follow any of your stories

Your friends complain you always interrupt them

Sitting still is torture.

When you shave just half of your face. I did that last night then walked around the house to see families reaction. Dont worry though, I shaved the rest off before bed.

When you and your SO who is also bipolar are both manic and your idea of fun is to get drunk and clean the whole house all night and it doesnt even look like the same place the next morning.

You realize that you clean so often when drinking because it makes you manic that you have no idea where anything is in your own house.

You find yourself writing the declaration of dependence...of Earth.

Hahaha! I relate so much to your post, simplydivine...YouTube is what granted me "expertise" in cutting hair! I guess we both attend YouTube University.

Ooooh, yes. The big sudden moves to locations that -- up until actually landing there with nothing but your crap--- were unknown, yes. Not just once. Not just twice. 7 freaking times!!! (Only one of them being a return. (3,000 miles). After less than 3 months. Which felt like an eternity because it was such a HUGE mistake(!)) (That bad ---even not considering the 2 major public breakdowns and gawdawful unrelenting mixed episode(!))

"Hear you" (teeheehee) on the talking. I either hardly talk or don't shut up. (Middle ground? What is that?) Just today, my BF was teasing me in front of a neighbor friend, saying they wrote a Cure song especially for me. Because of the lyrics, "You talked until your tongue fell out And then you talked some more". Oooooohhh. (Funny thing is, I almost never talk at all at work. Other places too.)

Interrupting. I've been working on trying (trying) not to. It is so hard! But I realized that I hate when I'm talked over, and didn't want to be guilty of it. Part of the problem though is wanting to get things out before I forget the thought(!) Because when it's gone, it's gone…

Love this thread.

kept cutting and bleaching my head until I shaved it ( Caucasian female). moved to the middle of no where with no job and a guy almost 20 years older, had unprotected sex with a guy I just met after buying him and a bar shots of tequila.. he liked to spit on me.

You find yourself stranded out of state because of a spur of the moment vacation on which you spent every cent you had. Bonus points if your child was with you.

People you live with walk away and lock their doors when you're talking to them because they can't take it any more.

You have an annoying habit of working 100 hours a week for two weeks and then 0 for the following two weeks.

You frequently buy LOTS of things for a project and never start it. Over and over again.

Because of the above, your average checking account balance is perpetually zero.

You can go three full days without sleeping while driving everyone who knows you NUTS.

You're talking so fast your therapist gets lost.

Yes to all. Me too. I think I've moved about 40 times. I'm 31. I constantly interrupt everyone. My not boyfriend hates it. There's another one: a long string of "not boyfriends".

Lol OMG yes. My whatever he is is also bipolar. Lots of fun.

When somehow end up too many credit card card then go into massive debt. When you shop and shop for things you dont need because you thought someday it would be priceless.

Then angrily accusing the person of not listening when they aren't able to follow the story.

you forget to eat for 24 hours... because well lets face it, you don't exactly need the energy!

When you're glad that the pdoc gave you the meds you want. But at the same time are mad at the pdoc for giving you the diagnosis, because you just want the meds and none of the drama.