Tell me your milder bp stories that maybe aren’t as consequential as the full blown episodes we hear so much about

Oh I love this thread, this is so wildly validating to read. Most of my manic experiences fit into this box.

I spent $10,000 over my budget during one manic episode. I had the money, so it didn't hurt that bad, but it did almost wipe out my savings.

I wasted an entire vacation in Germany picking all-night fights with my wife.

I'm a writer--I got my MFA in fiction and I'm expecting to query my first novel within a year. I've done a lot of my writing while manic. I rewrote my entire 110,000-word novel in five weeks at the end of my MFA program because I was manic.

In my last manic episode, I read tarot for 6+ hours every day.

I partook in a lot of semi-public sex and masturbation. I bought a vibrator necklace to better facilitate this.

I negotiated a 300% raise at my job.

My mania is usually pretty fun and hyper-productive until all of a sudden I can't stop fighting with my wife and I become delusional and paranoid, and if it keeps going past that point I might start hallucinating a little.

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