[A Red Panda]

I sorta like this kind of thread and think we could have fun with it!

You know you're bipolar when.....

* when you stay up all night cleaning the kitchen floor by hand!

[wildflowerchild25]

When you text people you haven't talked to in months at midnight!

When you feel like taking a shower is your biggest accomplishment of the week.

[Skittles56]

When you indulge in several different artistic ventures all at once and convince yourself that you will be the world's greatest at all of them. Then you crash into depression when it doesn't happen.

[A Red Panda]

When you can't decide what to do because you want to do ALL THE THINGS right this instant!

[Jqi3721]

When you fly from A to D and no-one can follow 'cos you missed out B and C

When you decided to get a hand fan to stay cool. And end up getting 27 of them.
(Along with 3 parasols that you simply must have even though you don't use them.)

When, in the midst of a ridiculous Ebay spree, you are dazzled, drooling, and doggedly determined to get a ridiculously foofy dress in your 2 most hated colors -- pastels no less! It *might* work as a fairy costume for a 6 year old in a play.
However... you're in your 40's. Wear almost all black. And wouldn't be caught dead in a print, let alone a pastel.

Mind you, I HATE shopping.

When you wake up one day thinking it is a great idea to move 3,000 miles to a place you've never been for no reason whatsoever. And are completely exasperated at the suggestion that perhaps it should be visited first. (You know, before you go having to lose money selling a house and uprooting everyone to go to the middle of nowhere where you know absolutely no one...)

When you've have had about 35 jobs and moved about 28 times. And would really like to get your hands on the s.o.b. that coined the term "peak earning years" when your "peak earning" years' incomes are well below poverty line and recently would have had to be DOUBLED to even reach that. Because you just can't quite get it together.

And just because that last one is SO not funny...

When you're standing and dancing around, playing with a glue gun, Sharpie marker and aluminum foil in the process of costume making, have a revelation, throw your hands in the air and yell, "I'm a f***ing GENIUS!!!" And believe it.

While making said costumes (15 of 'em), every time the person you're working with thinks of something useful, you shout, "I've got that! Be right back! Then run and gallop down the street to your house to get it/them. Again and again and again.

When you're dancing on the countertops (all 1' wide of 'em!), in the middle of the night, singing at the top of your lungs and shouting (about the radio), "OMG! They've got my entire old record collection!!!" while you're scrubbing out all the cabinets. Awww, whats so weird about that?! I had clothes on!

[rapid cyclist]

When you have several Facebook friends you met in the psych hospital.

When your three year long depression has finally ended and you realize you hate the alternative even more.

When something that made you very sad and stressed ends up making you violently happy the next day.

[medicalfox]

When you buy clothes that aren't your size because there was a sale.

[lil_better_everyday]

When the depression hits right as things are starting to look good.

One week you sit in your dressing gown, not moving from the couch, only eating cereal cos its too hard to cook or leave the house for food. The next you're out working, exercising, shopping, socialising and living life like a champion.

Originally Posted by A Red Panda

I sorta like this kind of thread and think we could have fun with it!

You know you're bipolar when.....

* when you stay up all night cleaning the kitchen floor by hand!

with a toothbrush!

[A Red Panda]

.. when you run on air. No sleep plus forgetting to eat meals and yet running around with LOOOADDSSS of energy - and no caffiene either.

...when people inform you on a semi-regular basis that you don't even seem like you, because they only knew either the normal, (hypo)manic, or depressed you.

[lateralminds]

your a depressive emotive cognitive distorted mortal who lives under the bridge in mind.

then jumps out and scares the hell out of people with too many words.

these people should be lucky we didn't kill them!

considering

and you jumped up and said what can I do to help.

hmmm.

next time I jump out I am going to say, hey what ^*%(^* makes you special !

[Otter63]

When you spend money on bright, shiny things that you later hate.

When you go next door to the convenience store and walk in naked as a jay bird!

[FireBird]

When you think you are the next big artist that can change the world single handedly! When you think you will make hundreds of millions a year!

[A Red Panda]

when you try to tell someone a story but only confuse them because you left out the middle and then started talking about something totally unrelated and don't even notice.

[polesapart]

when you start a business without actually deciding what it will do, because you change you're mind every 5 minutes, but are still convinced that it will be hugely successful and make millions.

[lateralminds]

Originally Posted by polesapart

when you start a business without actually deciding what it will do, because you change you're mind every 5 minutes, but are still convinced that it will be hugely successful and make millions.

that your idea would make millions, as implemented by a million thoughts and ideas...

confidence to implement... cognitive distortions build and your idea is marketed ten years later ya fricken Genius :P

[lawrenman]

when you start believing that you can affect the weather.
when you start thinking that the catholic revelations are coming nearer and you are a servant of the Lord.
when you go to sleep at night naked and thinking that it would be a good idea to do that while in a mental hospital.
when you sweat through shirts like its going out of style while sitting around.
when you think you are affecting nature because when you get too close to caterpillars they start trying to make/move their cocoons faster (who knows why really that happens).
when you see eight cars get stranded on the way home from work one day and think that because of the nasty weather that somehow you were involved in causing it (most likely alternator problems).

Hhhmmm that was 2-3 nights of pure mania.

[Mollywisk]

Originally Posted by A Red Panda

when you try to tell someone a story but only confuse them because you left out the middle and then started talking about something totally unrelated and don't even notice.

Oh yes! My family thinks I'm just a bad joke teller

Originally Posted by Otter63

...When you go next door to the convenience store and walk in naked as a jay bird!

But sea otters are so cute and furry! I've never even seen them wear clothes! So what's the problem?) Lol.

When you're a scrawny (like 110 lbs of scrawny) and are ready to rip into anyone if they so much as....<fill in the blank>. And don't think there's anything unrealistic about it. I remember being so agitated one time I thought (and saw in my mind) that I might well be able to successfully wrestle a TIGER(!) Fortunately, none were available.

When you're in your 40's and zipping all around town standing up on your bicycle because sitting is... well, it doesn't actually even occur to do so!

Or jumping across a bed shouting, "get up! get up! get up!". Then when they do, you stand right in front of them jumping up and down in place talking at them a mile a minute. Like a 6 year old. (Which is followed by them asking for your psych's phone number...)

When you feel like you're vibrating and if anyone were to touch your arm, they'd get an electric shock.

When you're at a party one night talking enthusiastically (even to people you can't stand and normally dodge) and making jokes through an entire slide show. Then the crash. The very next night, the thought of talking, let alone interacting in any way whatsoever, is unbearable. People comment to your SO, because no one but no one could possibly not notice the magnitude of shift.

When you can't keep yourself from laughing. Even at the most inappropriate things.

[Morigan]

Originally Posted by Bipolarartist

with a toothbrush!

and decide to regrout

When you get up at 5am on a day you could have slept till 10am and decide to rearrange the living room on your own.

And then plan in detail how you are going to redecorate the living room and the rest of the house (with little money left in the bank from the last spending spree).

When everything being sold on eBay seems like a good idea to buy.

When you purchase an entire outfit or 5 from eBay that is in 4 sizes too small because you just know in 2 months you will shed the weight on the new diet you have come up with.

When you site down with your nurse and she asks to see everything you have bought in the last week and its covered the living room floor in small sizes including those 6 inch heeled pvc boots (that don't fit and you could not walk in them anyway) that you bought to look good on the school run.

When the medication you take makes you better, but you're not sure if it's a better kind of better or if it's even better to be "better". And you're not really better anyway, even though life is a lot simpler.