Dangers when being manic

What dangerous things have ever happened to you while being manic?
Things that made you realize that mania is indeed not only euphoria and everything's great, but can also become quite dangerous.
I've been wondering how you wind out at a hospital when in a manic state.

My only answer would be from exhaustion, or pushing yourself too far, risking too much, etc.

Has anyone here ever been hospitalized while they were manic? Why?

(I'm just trying to figure out the mistery that mania still is to me, and I'd like to hear some experiences of others.)

Thank you for any replies

Sexually I have done things that put me in danger when high and I have been raped. I also have no concept of riskiness and have risked my health and sometimes life behaving in stupid manners - such as walking in the outback and in scrub in australia in flip flops and lying down on the ground in the dark in south africa in a jungle area that is known to have a large population of puff adders. I often turn to adrenaline sports when high too.

I have been hospitalised once for mania and psychosis and this also involved risky behaviour. I took a whole load of lorazepam and alcohol to drown out thoughts and voices whilst at a music festival and keeled over whilst there and ended up being admitted to hospital because of that.

Cracked

I was hospitalized for mania, but it was because it was turning mixed, it wasn't because of manic risky behaviour. I was going from euphoria to wanting to commit suicide very quickly, even thoughts of hurting others - my body and mind were running so fast, and it turned into a very "agitated" state. So for me, mania got dangerous only went it became mixed and agitated.

- EGD.

The only dangers I've really had were to my wallet... overspending and such. The way I've ended up hospitalized while manic is I'm much more likely to seek professional help while manic because I have the energy... I always have suicidal thoughts and when you admit that you're pretty much guaranteed a week stay at the local psych ward.

I spend a lot of my time manic not having slept in days and often times I superimpose heavy drinking on top of that. When I'm not drinking, my thoughts are basically racing so fast that they are not from my on consciousness, they don't feel like mine. Then I go out into the world and drive a car around (drunk or sober) and try to make day to day decisions. Never been hospitalized. Or in prison.

thank you guys

Exiled. wrote: The way I've ended up hospitalized while manic is I'm much more likely to seek professional help while manic because I have the energy...

that's what I'm experiencing right now. While I was depressive, I would've never gotten up, and as I've already been hospitalized once and left off feeling like nobody could help me, I probably wouldn't be motivated enough to get help.
But now, I have the energy, like you said, the motivation, and I think that things will be good. I'm not shutting my eyes because I know without help I will get bad again. But I know things can also turn out fine if I do something to get better

EarlGreyDregs wrote:I was hospitalized for mania, but it was because it was turning mixed, it wasn't because of manic risky behaviour.

ah, yeah. that makes sense to me.

CrackedGirl wrote:I have been hospitalised once for mania and psychosis and this also involved risky behaviour.

psychosis, also something I thought of. Something I hope I will never experience for myself :S

Exiled. wrote:The only dangers I've really had were to my wallet...

Exact same thing for me. I'm in huge debt to my parents because of this. They've had to bail me out too many times. The thing that really sucks is I'm not able to work full time right now to pay them back.

I hook up on craigslist and have sex with guys a lot and I don't really know why.

Sometimes I just hang around downtown at night by myself. Sometimes I hang out alone at night just because the risk of being attacked makes me adrenaline pump.

One time I had what in retrospect was a mixed episode where I was so sick and depressed staying in my mom's house that I tried to walk all the way across the highway like 10 miles to another town so I could visit a friend at 2AM.

I took an antidepressant at max dose thinking it would make me even more euphoric and had to go to the hospital. Ended up having an IV stuck in me to stop my serotonin from climbing

I used to be a guy who highly explored things, to my own detriment. I'd go hiking into the mountains without even compass and I'd play around with poisnous snakes. I've also stabbed myself before. That sucked. Now I just mostly stay in my room, or my house when I'm brave.