I’ve been reading some of your posts about mania, and it reminded me of the most outlandish thing I’ve ever done while manic. I went to Mexico and had a gastric sleeve surgery performed.

It didn’t even work. I lost 20 pounds and gained it back is all.

I defended it at the time, and even a long time after. But I have to admit, I would never normally do that.

The last time I went hypomanic, I started reading about the duodenal switch. This gastric surgery is hardly ever performed; it is super effective, but people can end up with horrific osteoporosis and terrible intestinal problems. Many gastric surgeons say this surgery should not be performed. And this is my fear, that I’m going to lose control of myself and go get surgery that is going to ruin my health or even kill me.

I am obsessed with weight loss and even lost 120 pounds at one point - before surgery. I can only keep 60 pounds off. I have kept that 60 off for several years. I so want to lose weight. That is where my mind will go.

So, I am committed to staying on my meds.

What is the most outlandish thing you’ve manic done?

[HALLIEBETH87]

Met a guy from online social Networking site and went out of state with him
To a house of a relative. No idea the guys last name or where we even were but I was hyper sexual too so I initiated things. To this day I can't tell you where I was or how
I got home.

[wildflowerchild25]

Thankfully I still have self control when manic. Which leads me to believe I’ve never been fully manic, except I do have psychosis. But anyway, the worst I did was spend my work day (several work days) writing motivational essays which I intended to publish In order to save the emotional lives of the world. They were complete gibberish by the way.

Also, I’m a teacher, so I had a **** ton of actual work to do. And I didn’t teach class, just gave motivational lectures.

[emgreen]

Just me writing my opinion, but I don't feel comfortable sharing outlandish things I've done (so just don't, right?! ). I'd rather forget the past; I've been stable on the manic end for quite a few years. To me, losing control is embarrassing; I don't want to re-visit Crazyland.

[Row Jimmy]

I destroyed my garage with a hockey stick.

[bpforever1]

I got married hastily to a man I did not even like. We divorced two years afterwards.

Also, off my meds, I was a stripper. hahahaha Thinking back on this, I must have been high as a kite when I decided to do this, I was in my early 40's.

went out to a park, took 50 pictures of my naked bottom (yes, I was naked in the middle of the park), came home, created a fake facebook profile and uploaded all 50 pictures of my naked bottom to facebook

(I have body issues, this is why it is such odd behaviour!)

usually I can't even look at myself in a mirror

but I kept it up for a while, before realising what a stupid person i'd been to do that and deleted the account

[Matt75]

'Broke into' an unoccupied scout camp out in the woods one night and spent a whole night roaming it in the dark (briefly undressed). Smoked a lot of marijuana and stole a fire extinguisher as my 'souvenir'.
Sad thing is that for a while after I thought I had discovered my 'real' self that night.
39 y.o. when I did that.

[Tryingtobehappy5]

Well so far I have only been full blown manic once(I think) although I have made a lot of crazy plans this year I never did any of them because they kept changing my meds. And in the past it's been more subtle. Ok onto my most funny thing.

I spent 5hrs trying to break out of the psych ward because they wouldnt let me go outside for fresh air(ok my plan was to run and hitchhike it to the lake, maybe freeze or starve to death there but I was ok with that, I was happy and they were trying to take it from me!) I spent the start of the time smashing against the door and trying to go behind people coming in or out but then they started telling people they had to use the back entry and a security guard was right beside me so I spent the rest of the time pacing or sitting or laying there just enjoying the fact that I was making their lives a bit harder. Then I seen the psychiatrist and he told me if I want to go out I have to act better than that and so I just stopped and went on with my happy day. I still find it all pretty funny.

I did lots of other funny things too, wish I could go back to being that happy although I'm still pretty fun right now just not quite fun enough.

[Shazerac]

I don't know if I can separate manic from drunken escapades when I was younger. I'm mostly hypomanic. Once I was out drinking with Jamaican friend. She said I want to go home. I said ok I'll go to. We went to the airport and flew to Jamaica.

[WildcatVet]

Lots of men and sex...all at once.