Bipolar Support Group

What is the silliest thing you did while you were manic?

I adopted a cat.

I hid my brownie mixes, in a suitcase at the bottom of the closet. A few weeks later when I went to make brownies I couldn't find them. I didn't find them for a few weeks because I didn't remember putting them there.

Got married.

got married...lmbo

Me too. Twice.

Twice?? You got me beat. I only did it once. lol

Actually, looking back, I may have been manic when I got married. I proposed to him and insisted we marry in a month. It was pretty crazy. I don't regret it at all though.

Post edited by: partygirl, at: 06/15/2009 07:57 PM

I wish I could laugh about it, but I can't. It's one of the things I regret in my life.

I'm sorry, Lisa. I didn't mean to laugh when you weren't laughing. I hate regrets. I married my ex-husband and the father of 2 of my children when I was manic. I stayed with him for many years and the marriage was horrible. But I've come to not regret it, it was just part of my life. A long, long part of my life.

Hrmm. While riding around in my car I hit a possum on a dirt road that was carrying young on its back. I found one of them in the road and put it in a brown bag and brought it home and started to raise it as a pet. I really enjoyed the thought of raising a possum because every "normal" person would be like: "wtf you doing with a possum?" unfortuanetly it was hard to get it to eat and it died one day while I was at work on a 12 hour shift. I waited a couple hours before I buried it so I wouldn't be able to wonder if I buried a possum playing possum.

I've also built lean-two's and other structures in the wilderness out of boredom. For years I had an enormous hole that I had dug with a shovel at about the age of 10-12 and it was about 6 feet deep and about 10-15 feet in diameter. It served as a pool a couple times and a giant sandbox for my toy cars. I'd crank up my dads stero in our home and wonder about 15-30 feet from the house to play.

As for general sillyness... Shaved my head completely bald once on a whim.

Post edited by: BigJ, at: 06/15/2009 01:15 PM