i'll confess first.

when i was 16 i was on a flight from the US to the UK. i was having a hypomania at that time, and wasn't on meds (my parents didn't let me take meds). i just had a tdoc (both parents had bp, btw).

anyway, the guy next to me was a minimum of 50, and his wife and kids were sitting in the row in front of us. for some unknown reason, he started to look so sexy to me! LOL!!! i tried to grope his leg, but he told me that i was a nice girl and should go to sleep. i didn't go to sleep on my own, i had about 9 glasses of wine to help me out. 9 glasses!!! i was a small young woman, so that huge amount was a really, really huge amount for me. i fell into either a blackout or asleep, i'm not sure which.

when i woke up, we were landing. to complicate matters, i get very motion sick. suddenly, before i could grab the air sick bag, i threw up all over the guy!!! he was so aghast, and was like "what's that?". as i grabbed my backpack from under the seat in front of me in absolute horror, i stammered "it's barf!" and fled to the lavatory on the plane. the flight attendants couldn't get me out of the lavatory for landing.

i washed up and put on my change of clothes from the bag. then i had to explain to my aunt, who was a missionary, why i smelled like alcohol and throw-up. i claimed that i was just airsick and only had *1* glass of wine!

i'm 30 now so i can laugh, but it was the single most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in my life!

Tattoos when I have a huge fear of needles....Thank God I put them on my back.


Peace, Shannon

wow i dont even know... i always need exciting things in life or i get depressed.

once i drove 8 hours to another country (alone) just to be on stage for 1 minute :/

Ha! The story of my life!

One of the stupidest things I did was buy a $800 ring on eBay and then return it.

Wow, there's too many to list.

Most recently, I drove 120mph down a country road. At night. During a heavy fog. That was during a mixed state.

I followed a hedgehog once, for about 30 minutes... I had an exciting little late night adventure!

Just the quick ones I remember without thinking too hard.

Danced in the shebeen (very, very, bad bar type place) in a neighbouring country till about 12, while drinking very, very strong rum... 6 hours before doing a very deep scuba dive (42 m)... during which I had a very, very bad nitro narcosis, which is very very dangerous... fortunately I had a very very good dive master who saw it, and gave me a very, very big buddy to look after me. When I felt very, very lost, I climbed on his back.

Chased a cop car to shout at them not to cut in front of me when they can see I am talking on my mobile phone and thus know I am not in full control of the car...

Chased a fully jampacked mini taxi with a gun in my hand, because they cut in front of me... (Trace will understand!)

Picked up men on internet....yes.

Stood on the lawn of my condo and sang the old South African national anthem at the top of my voice... at 2 in the morning.

..... Shall I continue?

Corset tattoo on my back and pierced nipple.

Yea, this has positive and negative sides. The positive thing is that you experience a lot of (crazy) stuff, but you´re also stressed all the time. At least I am.
I always need things I can look forward to, I dont sleep much, and I feel like wasting time when I have nothing to do. The bad thing about is that I´m easy overwhelmed with anything...so I need constant stress but I cant deal with it.
Does this even make sense?

However, another thing I did 2 years ago was spontanously packing my stuff and leave my home forever.

This post has been edited by illusion: Jun 11 2009, 05:47 PM

I know what you mean about the feeling like wasting time, but getting overwhelmed easily.

One of my experiences was during one of my classes, I basically went off on a rant about one of the other teachers, and was very disruptive to the class. Unfortunately the teacher was someone who I really liked....

I also remeber a period of time where at work I would walk away from people in the middle of conversations (including my boss), laugh at inappropriate things and make a general nusiance of myself, fidget constantly, and leave things half done.

I have almost packed up everything and left my husband over night, but was stopped. (medication kicked in....)

I have spent so much money...I am not allowed a credit card now.

The uncontrollable rages I used to get into...thankfully haven't had one of those for a while now.

The constant rollercoaster of states of hyperactivity...and states of no activity...it's so exhausting.
The first bit of it is usually pretty good though, I get lots of stuff done, but then I can't control it...

Nothing really extrodinary though :)

I Get tatts done. Just got my 7th one done!! im in thailand atm for holidays!!! LOL!
the next day i went to see my Pdoc, which i have over here too and i turnded very irritable and crazy
i had flight of ideas how to live in thailand and also wanted to go out drinking,
stop my meds and be left alone on my epesiode of mania! I was taken to the ER
and given a 10mg shot of Zyprexa in my left buttock! And there you have goodnight Jay_man
and his night on the town LOL!!
night on the town lol.

Today is my last day here and i feel more controlled as i have had some adjustments
to my medication and feel somewhat stable, but not fully.

I could spend all day here writting about so many things LOLOL!
ohhhhh and just one more quick one, at the spere of the moment
at 8:45pm booked at penthouse suite in Australia were i live
and decided to checkout 4 hours later. and if you want to know how much
the suite was it was aroubd $600 lol!

This post has been edited by Jay_Man: Jun 13 2009, 03:54 AM

hmm, i dont want to put my worse thing, as is quite bad and not funny.

other behaviour is the tats and piercings! raging, spending, smashing things up, threatening behaviour.

I adopted a cat once.

I do the same thing. I think I'm a race car driver or should be.

And there's too many to list, or embararasing.

I once bought 3 cars in a week when I already had a car I had to have the time before. One cash, the other two I just signed and drove away.

I been pretty good for a while and haven't gotten into any trouble

I bought a golden retriever. He is every bit as much of a jerk as I am. Only always happy, a little too happy

WOW... I'd like to see your back!

I love this thread! I just get really silly and my filter of what would be appropriate to say gets turned off. I tend to tell people what I think of them and it sometimes gets me in trouble. I have said some really stupid things.

Well, I'm not really sure I've had mania, but seems my doctor likes to think so, so let's see what that would include, shall we? The most interesting things my doctor sees as signs of previous mania:

Walking through a quiet suburban neighbourhood at 3 am screaming at the top of my lungs the lyrics to old irish drinking songs even though I wasn't at all drunk or even drinking.

Moving to Asia, on somewhat of a whim, with a maxed out credit card (for plane ticket) and no more than 60 dollars in my pocket and nothing in the bank. I got stuck there for quite some time too, because I couldn't afford to get home!

Waiting until my room mate had her boyfriend over, so that me and my partner could have loud obnoxious sex on the couch (while they were in the next room), just to make them uncomfortable and as part of a scheme to see how long it would take for my behaviour to get her to move out and other such antisocial experiments.

well, I know most people dont do this, but it´s a good thing to tell others what you really think of them! ;)
Dont stop this!

Weirdest or stupidest thing... Hmmm... There are so many to choose from. Let's see.

I don't think I have too many "weird" things... but plenty of stupid ones.

- During the Enron era, I invested almost all of my life savings in a company that just HAD to rebound. It didn't.

- Ran up tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt, with little or nothing to show for it.

- When I was barely 18, I ran away from a psych ward, four hours after being let out of ICU after a serious suicide attempt. Walked ten miles in a autumn rainstorm in nothing but a t-shirt an jeans to get to a friend's place. I disappeared for a month and have little recollection of what I did during that time. I think putting me in an unlocked ward may have been a mistake on their part.

- Binge drinking and drug use (mostly cocaine).

- I emotionally alienated my spouse to the point where I am no longer welcome in my own home.

- Long periods of (mostly inappropriate) hyper-sexuality.