Bipolars only, what is the wildest or strangest thing you've ever done while manic?
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My cousin is bipolar, and the wildest thing he ever did was crash a wedding and then ask this girl to marry him.
536184
I put on my laciest panties just for the hell of it.\nI got a french tip manicure and painted my toe nail red.\nThat's sexy, right?
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not only tripped!\ni tore my skirt halfway to the top, banged my head to the glass window, dropped my grocery bag and everything rolled out in the middle of southland sc\nand oh yeah i laughed like crazy to 'avoid' embarrassment and i could feel my face was really hot =)
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*Laughing* \n\nYou need to get your Meds checked because your not well...
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I am off meds right now. It was a long road to get were I am at. I had to learn my triggers, and learn to rationalize with myself. I still have bad days, but my husband and kids help me through. I would rather be on meds, but I had problems getting and taking them every day, which made things so much worse. I have found that letting close friends and family know what is happening will help. They will not take things as personally, and can "see" symptoms before you do. I start cussing really bad at the start of a manic episode, and my husband will say something, and work to get me in a calmer place. He also knows that a depressive episode is almost always followed by mania for me. \n\nI can not hold down a "normal" job. The stress sends me into loops. I now work at home, and set my own hours. For me it works. For others they need a "set" schedule. I found a therapist who would not try to analize me, but instead let me bounce my own thoughts and ideas off of him. That was the best thing that ever happened to me! \n\nFor the first time in my life I will tell people I am bipolar and hear back, "No Way, you are so normal!" It feels good!
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As a child I would experience mood swings - happy one minute and sad the next minute. I started cutting my skin because of the sadness I felt inside. Since we were poor, my parents laughed me off - they didn't take me to see a doctor and instead blamed my moodiness on self-inflicted temper tantrums. While in school, I would always panic before taking tests and my palms would sweat. At age 21-25 I noticed a strange feeling of being too happy and all I wanted to do was spend, spend, spend and became unhappy when all the money was gone. I then sunk into deep depression blaming myself for anything. I was crying all the time even when I was happy.   When I finally turned 40yrs old, I became violent towards myself and of course, towards others. I was abusive. Then one day, I just jumped out of my car and ran down the railroad tracks... I wanted to kill myself - but for what and Why?  Today, I can't believe that I had done such a thing.  Anyway, at 40yrs I experirenced a major bout with depression and had to be hospitalized. After the usual tests were conducted, it was discovered that I had Rapid Cycling Bipolar. Was placed on Prozac, Paxil, and finally Valporic Acid = Depekote at 1000mg per day.  I'm 57yrs now, and sometimes feel so good that I don't take my medication... which is not good.  In other words, when I don't take my meds my seritonin attacks my system, so I must contiually remind myself that the meds are my friend and will help keep my brain balanced and help me to live one more day. A day without ups and downs.  A day of strength.  Yes, I have been diagnosed with Bipolar for 17 years, but really all my life.   If you are Bipolar please don't play doctor... take your medications and live a long life. You might even help someone like me - who is using this forum to answer your qustions.  This is good for my brain.... yeah?
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It sounds Like you are at the begining of a long Journey.\n\n\nTo stop a high, you have to go through a medically induced LOW.  That's what the medication does, it brings you down off your high (MANIC/psychotic).  Its not fun, But this is how Bipolar disordser goes....\n\nYour symptoms are normal, weight gain and NO PSYCHOTIC EPISODE.\n\nAfter an episode it takes me 2 to 3 years to get back to normal.\n\n\nMY advice is to go with the flow, Don't get obssessed with the low, or dead feeling inside, its temporary.  If you can;\n\n\ngo for a walk\nexercise\nkeep pyshically active\n\nIt will take time to get back to normal!  Try to find a community group in your area and find others like yourself.\n\n\nGOOD LUCK!
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the funniest thing that ever happened to me was i waswearing one of my favorite shirts and i leaned over a light candle screamed like a little sissy girl\ncause it burned a hole in it
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wow ive done a lot of crazy things...but prolly the most crazy is base jumping in colorado...nothing like a base jump to scare the shit outta you...but then there was the time i was paddling in a raft w/ my friends in lake ontario...and a barge went by and almost flipped us and my dumbass friend dropped the paddle, so we wer stuck in the middle of lake ontario with 3 ham sandwiches for 7 hours...wen we wer finall picked up...we had drifted almost 17 miles!!! it was so far because we had been paddling w/ our hands in the direction we thought was right...but was the total opposite way...that was pretty crazy...
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Mess around on the internet and overeat.  What did you do?
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How about going to Busch Gardens, riding Roman Rapids, and having my pad wash blood out all over my pants!?  (didn't even think of that.) \n\nI triple dog dare anyone to come up with a better one.  And feel free to use my experience to make yourself feel better.  I can laugh at myself plenty enough not to mind.
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by reading, catching up with one of my old friends that really know me, and by dancing my heart out in my prettiest mini and a tank top! i love going crazy! or, if i really have lost it, i will cry myself to sleep and i wish that i was back at my old home with all my friends because that is where i have actually lost a piece of me. I left it there and I dont think that I will ever be able to get it back. it really sucks. loosing yourself. i hate the feeling of it.
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My co-workers tease me about having OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) because I always clean when I get bored. \n\nOne day I was really bored and decided to tidy up my area. There was this huge cord that had been hanging under my counter top for a long time, so I got out the heavy duty scissors and went to work on it. I cut it clean off and tossed it in the garbage. Shortly afterward the phones quit workng along with the VISA terminal and some other important electronic equipment.\n\nI almost lost my job that day. The phone company had to repair the line and splice together over 100 tiny wires I had cut. \n\nThese days I just go out for a Latte.
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Its not just you.Im verging on insane(lol!!!!!) ;)
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Did you overdose on your medication again, or is it in your schedule to be insane right now?
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I laugh constantly and maniacally. Unfortunately this is involuntary, due to neurological damage from lepromatous leprosy, and I am actually in a perpetual state of despair. I’d blow my brains out if I had any fingers left to pull the trigger.
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hormones makes us do wierd things lol