[ComfortablyNumb5]

I'm dying to hear stories of the stupid things we've done while manic. Some of my stories are funny, some are damning. So I'll start with signing up for cosmetology school after being up for 3 days. Never even took the state board test but I finished the school. And another would be having sex in my dads neighbors driveway where my dad was in his room 5 ft away. That time involved booze I'm sure.

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[HeavyMetalLover]

I once bought a Kirby vacuum cleaner for $2000 ....that I didn't actually have in the bank, it turned out. I wrote a bad check for that. That was after a huge shopping spree where I stopped keeping track of my spending in the check register. I also bought 3 pleather outfits, 2 pairs of leather boots , a hot pink Baby V guitar( I had no idea how to play it. It looked cool & I like the color). I then had people, including, the Kirby vacuum guys, suing me. I returned some items but most of them wouldn't take the items back. I ended up having to file bankruptcy.

I now have someone help me with my finances for that very reason, Lol.

[ComfortablyNumb5]

Damn I hear you on that. Back when I was working, I'd cash my check and go straight to the store and buy stupid shyit that would have tags on them for years or forever. Then time comes around to pay a bill and oops!

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[polesapart]

Let's see
- painting my bedroom fluorescent orange
- knocking down a wall in my house during a sleepless night
- most recently booked myself on a solo skydive course for thousands of dollars, and was no longer high when it started. Leading to thoughts of... I paid to do what?! Why would I want to jump out of a plane?!

[cashart10]

Haha...the dumbest thing I ever did while manic I was very manic and hyper religious. My husband didn't want me running until 6AM. So, I waited till then, and went for a morning run. I sang praise and worship music AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS, believing it would save anyone who heard it. If any of my neighbors did hear it, they all think I'm perfectly normal, I can't imagine what they must have thought.

[Woolly Bugger]

I shaved my head. As vice president of a small tech firm in Berlin, it did not go over very well. My wife wasn't too happy about it, either.

[Slowbrains]

I was repairing my car without success, so i decided to set up an accident to get car written off by insurance company. I drove it about 30 mph against heavy leveller i had behind of my tractor. It didn't go very well, i managed to damage car but not enough. I didn't want to try it again so i just sent the car to salvage yard...

[BeyondtheRainbow]

I adopted 2 cats. Well, 3. First I took in a tiny stray kitten from my apartment's parking lot. She died about 2 weeks later. The grief book the vet gave me said I should go to visit a shelter and see how I felt. Well, apparently I felt I should save ALL the kittens but thank God I didn't have the cash required to adopt more than 2. But instead of just visiting and considering I visited, picked out a kitten, fell in love with another, went to the eye dr and went back and adopted the 2nd. This left me no time before my therapy appointment so I took them INTO therapy with me (with the therapist's permission at least). I also bought an extreme number of cat items I did not need, many of which had to be thrown out a few weeks later when it turned out that the cute spots on one kitten were actually ringworm (which I got all over my face). With one of them getting very sick a few weeks after being adopted and the vet bills I spent several thousand dollars that year on cats.

[ComfortablyNumb5]

Oh How can I forget, back when I was self medicating with 20 drinks a day, my bf and I rented a gulf cart so he could play. Well I thought driving it was a good idea. It's now in the bottom of a pond and we owe the city $4000

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[WibblyWobbly]

I bought a $500 sewing machine and about 30 patterns and spent hundreds on fabric with the idea that I was going to sew my own clothes. I made one skirt for Halloween and never used it again. I got into making cakes and agreed to make a 4-tier wedding cake for a friend. I wasn't manic when it came time to make the cake and I was up all night trying to finish this monstrosity that looked nothing like my grand visions. Another time I ran away to the beach 4 hours away but every hotel room was booked so I ended up sleeping at a rest stop and driving back home after hanging out by the water for 20 minutes. Another time I said and did some crazy things then took off. The cops were looking for me everywhere while I was at Target on a shopping spree muahaha.

[cmorales]

Oh geez. Doing stupid things while manic is something I'm pretty good at. Let's see, what can I add to this thread?

I used to go to Mexico to get rx painkillers otc because US currency was the only rx needed. I remember the first time we did this I was manic as all hell and bouncing around like a dang cartoon kangaroo. The pills had seemingly no effect on me. My friends thought that they had the opposite effect on me and sped me up.

I once enrolled in a radio apprenticeship. I met with my mentor once but never went back (because I spontaneously moved out of the area). Later that year I enlisted in the military. (Funny story about that, they don't perform any psychological/psychiatric testing and even with evidence of intense mood swings - provided you don't have a dx at the time, which I didn't - they are reluctant to let you out of your contract.)

I have a tendency to get motivated/creative when manic and start things but don't finish them, sometimes (like with the radio apprenticeship) spending money which just goes to waste.

Of course there are those times where I have uprooted my life with nothing more than a bag of clothes in an attempt to start over. I've gone from San Diego to Orange County and back and forth before; about 4 times in 5 years. Each time enrolling in a local junior college (on those motivational kicks) only to drop out.

And lastly (as this is pretty long already) there was 2006-2007. The year I attempted to slow my thoughts down (and at other times "pick me up") by drinking. Probably the dumbest thing I have done while, well, manic/mixed or depressed. Just pain stupidity on my part.

[HALLIEBETH87]

I met a man from the internet I barely knew and rode with him in his car out if state and initiated sexual acts. I barely remember everything that happened but I wasn't safe...

I danced in the thunderstorm, called my old psychiatrist's pager number just to chat and boy was she mad lol

i was almost arrested for criminal driving... thing is, this wasnt a one time thing... i was driving this way for a long time, so not having been caught for so long made me think i was some sort of godly being at the road... fun fun days...

[faerie_moon_x]

I used to quit jobs. I always had a "reason" though.

I quit Pier One because I wouldn't be a credit card shill.

I quit a Costume Shop because I thought they were "going under" and it's better to
jump from a sinking ship.

I quit from my favorite job, which was a custodial job, because I wanted to get back into theater (and then promptly never did another show.)

Before my current job the longest I ever held a job was 6 months. (Now I've been here almost 8 years.)

I've also got 3 tattoos but I don't regret them.

[LettinG0]

Started school...stopped school....quit jobs multiple times....moved multiple times...bought land that didn't make senses...divorced a husband.....just to name a few....

[Azvixxen]

Didn't file taxes, cheated on my taxes, ran up thousands of dollars in credit cards, numerous affairs with strangers met online (CRAZY), stupid things at work like sending messages through my work computer to whoever I was involved with at the moment (sexually explicit messages), using my work phone for phone sex, taking off for a weekend and spending tons of money at a resort, buying clothes that will never be worn because "someday "ill be that size"...the list goes on and on...uugh.

[xxblackrosesxx]

I spent over $1000 in one clothing store on 2 skinny jeans and I think just 2 tops. Lol. And getting my nipples pierced and sharing pics on Skype. The drinking...oh the drinking. I drank and went back with a 40+ year old who was a multi millionaire and did drugs with him.

[Standup2me]

Dumbest financiallly:
Bought a $30,000 sports car

Dumbest lifewise
Got out of my car, and kicked in the doors, panels, lights, etc of the car in front of me, asking them which one of them wants to die first

[HALLIEBETH87]

Oh yeah multiple tattoos and piercings. One night I went to get an impulsive tattoo and they were busy so I got my nipples both pierced while I waited

[gina_re]

I've had a drivers license in three different states. I've moved more times in the past ten years than I care to count. Nose was pierced, junk was bought, slept with people that do not deserve it (lol), tattoos, drinking and going to clubs (I am in no way a club person!), enrolled in school, dropped out of school, quit jobs unnecessarily...

[ozzy1313]

Lots of home improvement- my dad loves that kind of stuff and loves tearing stuff up- I have called him twice to tear down walls and he comes right over. Tore up my kitchen...went into depression and had no cabinet doors for a while but it looks great now! Ended up finishing the kitchen and two other room by myself in a few weeks.

A tattoo. Volunteering for things and then when the times comes I am no longer hypo and have to try to get out of it. Making out with a manger at work

[HeavyMetalLover]

I almost forgot...Once, when I had recently divorced my ex husband, I met a guy online. We "chatted" for a few weeks, exchanged phone numbers, then called each other every night. He lived in NJ & I was in KS so that's a HUGE phone bill. To top that off, I talked him into buying plane tickets for myself & 2 kids (both toddlers at that time) & then packed our bags & moved my family in with him in NJ. Mind you, I had never met him in person until then. 3 months later, I came down from my mania & low and behold, I realized I wasn't really in love with him & wanted to move my kids & I back home. It turned out to be for the best because he said he hated kids & only gave it a chance because he liked me....LIKED, not LOVED....and he said , and I quote," Sex with bipolar *****es is the best". I called my mom, she wired the money for the kids & I to get back home(via Greyhound) & he took us to the bus station. The entire ride home, I was too scared to sleep, so when we did get home, I crashed straight into depression. But we were home safe....and I never heard from "Jersey boy" (my nickname for him) again.

[Pikku Myy]

Totally the funniest one I did was buy a miniature horse on a whim and have it delivered to my house the same day, lol