What's the funniest/most insane thing you've done while manic?

This has been asked before but it never gets old. I have never gone full-out manic but while hypomanic I think I'm Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson rolled in one. The worst part is I get urges to shoplift (have been arrested), talk way too much and wayyy too fast (i.e. no one can catch up) plus have lots of racing thoughts.

That probably isn't crazy enough compared to what a lot of you here have though. Do share!

I once got arrested for driving 155 in a 65 zone trying to be speed racer.

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Got on an online fan group and pretended to be the famous guy's secret girlfriend. I had a few idiots believing it.

Pulling the plastic bag off of my head while asleep. I was pissed for not completing the job.

I got in touch with a famous author and she asked me to go ahead and mail her my manuscript. It was 200 pages of words spoken to me by God.

Last time I was hypomanic I decided I should start a group to perform the Beastie Boys 'Paul's Boutique' live. Mind you I have zero musical inclinations and have never been on stage in my life. I posted ads everywhere- Craigslist, grocery store, community college. Seems so silly now.

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These are all pretty good

Oh wow that's the first time I've seen someone say urges to shoplift, I do to but have no idea why I want to? Yes talk way way too much I talk a lot normally throw in some mania and watch me roll!!

It would be a tie between climbing a tree to talk to God or shooting holes into the "You are entering" sign of a particular city I was mad with at the time.

Got divorced & married in same day. The guy I married (that day) said he was sterile. I believed him. (But have beautiful daughter).

I get new ideas for something productive I can do at home but they're not realistic with a 4 yr old. And I've even purchased books about becoming a wedding planner or body piercer that I don't remember buying then I laugh when I find them later.

Ran around the assisted living facility where I worked, slamming doors and screaming about wanting to kill a resident's daughter for trying to get me fired. (This had no basis in reality.) Thank God I did it after hours when the rest of the management had gone home, but some of my staff members witnessed the explosion. I was so embarrassed when I came back to reality. It was just before I was diagnosed as bipolar, in fact, this incident was what made me realize I needed professional help.

I've done the same exact thing except it's usually store employees who just turn out to be tired of lazy. That was pre-bipolar diagnosis as well.

I see your on a lot of the meds I'm on with a couple exceptions. How is that combo working for you if you don't mind me asking?

Bought a miniature horse and had him delivered the same day to my house... rofl

I bought a suit and talked my way into a job I was completely unqualified for.
PS, this is back in the 80s when woman's suits had very short skirts.

When I was hospitalized I kept everyone in stitches with my jokes about doctors and nurses. The docs and staff didn't much appreciate it much though.

When hypomanic once, I got the idea to make a giant needle-felted snail shell that I could sit inside of. I got as far as making the huge chickenwire frame and started adding wool to the base. It's still sitting unfinished in my storage area, 8 months later.

Dumped my stable, live-in boyfriend, married a strict Muslim immigrant, and converted to Islam. Oops.

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Walk through a part of Chicago where there were riots at 2 AM. I found this fun and interesting with all the store fronts boarded up on Linley roads. I had to evade someone that was following me.

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The most insane thing I did whole manic was seduce my husband's coworker (didn't take much) and then have a threesome at a hotel with him and his buddy. Wth was I thinking??? Most of the time I get manic I fall into promiscuity. I always lie or withhold these escapades from everybody, including my T. I've also charged over $750 shopping for clothes in one night, bought my whole staff massages and gotten drunk with coworkers and apparently called a staff member on my team a very bad name. I almost got fired over that. Even if she wAs a c-bomb, I shouldn't have been drinking with subordinates and running my mouth. Another time I bought flowers for a cashier because she looked sad. Yeah way manic. I drive excessively fast, flirt with other drivers and wear provocative clothes. I also had a one might stand on a trip out of town with a cutie I met in the hotel bar. Gawd, looking back. Sigh..., bought myself a $250 red leather travel bag convinced I'd use it 'all the time'. Yeah. Twice in two years. Then spent at least a month drawing complicated spirographs in every sharpie color and spent evenings coloring and ignored chores, dinner, responsibilities etc. I can get very focused when manic.

Haha this sounds like me too. I'm usually single but when I'm hypomanic, I get really hypersexual. Luckily I can control this and I haven't had any regrettable sexual encounters with strangers in dark alleys yet, though once I got a strong urge to kiss a girlfriend even though I'm completely straight!!

Yes to hypomanic spending sprees too! Lots and lots of clothes/booze/shoes/earrings etc. until I'm broke. I guess it's a good thing I'm almost always broke then, so I don't have that much to squander.

I've done wayyy worse things than this but this was when I was young and my bipolar began to blossom. I was 19 at the time. I impulsively painted my bedroom blood red thinking it was a beautiful genius idea. When I returned to reality a few hours later with half the room done and all my furniture scattered around the house, I cried my eyes out because. It was so depressing and ugly. My dad had to hire painters to come the next day and paint the room to a soft calming lavender color. It was also finals week when I did this. I think the stress got to me.

I'm a project-starter too... Get lots of grand ideas about what I will surely accomplish and they all end up collecting dust in some obscure corner of the house. I would throw them out, but my OCD makes me a hoarder

The craziest thing? There are so many it’s hard to pick. When not on meds I am mostly manic…a full blown out of control self-medicating freight train of craziness with all the stereotypical behaviors (you guys have been there and done that so I wont go into details). Let’s just say I have a ton of crazy stories from those days. But most recently my pdoc tried to wean my off my anti-psychotic with disastrous results. I went completely hypo and decided to redo my whole condo…new floors, new furniture, a new kitchen…the whole nine yards. I spent weeks going to flooring stores and bringing home samples. I spent hours on-line looking at furniture and counter tops and tile. I was all set to go…and then, one day out of the blue, I turned around and spent all the money for the redo on a motorcycle. Just like that. I still have the flooring samples laying on my floor.

Probably too crazy to post. Nothing dangerous but still the clinic felt the need to hold me 2 weeks to milk out the insurance as much as they could.

I was alone one Thanksgiving. Drove by a friend's house that evening. He was drunk and disrespected me pretty bad. A few days later, I had diarrhea so I crapped in a small box, wrapped it like a Christmas present, and placed it in his mail box. Priceless.