Funny things you have done while on Manic High

During the periods I've been manic I experienced some very strange and at times quite funny/bizarre goings on, sure I'm not alone in this. Not sure if there is already a thread of this ilk already if so please feel free to merge.

I've always tried to find humour in mental health and dont mind laughing about some of the strange situations Ive found myself in so heres my example.

During my last manic episode I ended up hospitalised on a section 3 (For non UK forum users - if my memory serves me correctly this is a 6 month enforced hospitalisation in UK) during the day I decided that I would like to go out from the hospital and go night clubbing later in the night. So I enlisted the help of other patients to help me to escape from the locked hospital ward. All this involved was asking someone to watch for the key code when one of the healthcare assistants opened the locked door.
So with that first obstacle successfully navigated it came round to the evening meds round. By this time I must have been getting quite high and grandiose as when the nurse asked me if I wanted my meds yet, I suggested that she give me enough to 'knock a horse out.' I've no idea why I said this as it was a very bad idea indeed. I believe she gave me a stronger dose than usual which I happily took.
A short while later I left the hospital wing (very exciting at time) and made my way through the hospital and into the local town, planning the whole time how I was going to have a great time in the nightclub. I was going to do some entertaining stuff and meet some hot women. But it didn't turn out like that Im afraid.
I made my way to my sisters house who was living over the other side of town, and tried to persuade my nephew to come to the nightclub with me (he was staying over from the US) My sister was concerned firstly that I was out of hospital, but I came out with some sort of reason for being allowed out.
In any case my nephew didn't want to come to the nightclub and my sister and her boyfriend were going out. So they all left and I thought what the hell, I will go by myself So it was dark by now and my sister lived quite close to a petrol station, I started walking along the pavement and toward the town centre when the medication started to kick in. I think I was prescribed Haloperidol at the time which used to give extremely unpleasant and physically painful side effects, this used to be managed by being given side effect tablets to counter the haloperidol, only I was no where near the hospital and in trouble by now As I tried to walk along the path the meds side effects were becoming increasingly strong and I didn't know what to do, I was panicking and frightened. The only idea I had was to just lay on my back along the pavement, (ironically probably the best thing I could have done given the circumstances)
I could barely talk through the meds and hoped someone would help me. While it must have looked very strange to passers by, and possibly like I was having a heart attack. Help came quickly. A local taxi driver stopped to help...I couldnt really communicate properly so he put me in his car and drove me to the nearby garage, then called the police.
When the poice arrived, the officer tried to ascertain the problem and again due to the side effects when he was asking me questions I could hardly speak, other than to say something like "Tablets" he thought I had taken an overdose and was I think arranging to have my stomach pumped out, when I managed to get my point across somehow, that I was from the local mental health acute ward and needed to go back and be given side effect tablets.
He drove me back and I was put to bed by a nurse who gave me the meds. I quickly returned to wellness, but sadly my plan for a night out turned out to be less fun than I had hoped

I enjoyed reading your story and understand how funny it must seem now that it is passed.

I do stupid, rather than funny things when manic. I'm too embarassed to tell the stories here.

Lol! That made me laugh! I hope you don't take it the wrong way, but you mentioned your sense of humour, so... I'm sure it must've been very frightening at the time, but in hindsight it's pretty funny. I actually thought you were going to make it to the club but fall asleep in the toilet or something like that.

I also try and find humour in everything. Even if I can't laugh at the time, I can still see how it's funny. And I usually laugh later. It's one of the things that keeps me going, so thanks for sharing this story. I'm afraid I don't have anything similar to share. I will if I remember anything.

As life can be so full of sadness, frustration and disappointment I like to laugh where possible. I wasnt sure how this thread would go really as I didn't want to give the impression of making light of something as devastating as this condition.
I do have plenty of other funny(ish) stories to tell, will share some more where possible. But would still be interested on hearing other peoples experiences.

Life's a tragedy if you feel it, but if you think? It's a comedy.

I'm just learning to find humor in the thiings i have done while manic.
But heres one. I was selling motorcycle for $3000. Battery went dead, so i lowered price to $2000 just to get rid of it and not spend any time on it. Yes $1000 lower. Well everyone wanted to pay me even less for it. So i got off my butt and got battery and raised the price back up. So when i reposted it i let all the untrusting people know that they have lost out on a great deal all because of a battery and not trusting me.

When i was at uni I once got it into my head when high that I was a famous underground artist sent from God. I thought i would be the new Banksy. I went to a clubbing night on a Friday night at my student union and took a load of coins with me. I then queued for the toilets and managed to sneak into the stalls somehow without being seen (well that is what I thought but who knows ) Anyhow when I got inside each one I would put a 2 pence on the toilet seat. I thought I would become famous and everyone would be talking about this amazing new talent who left coins on toilet seats. In fact they were prob all talking about the girl who kept going into the toilet stalls and sneaking around the loos in general.

I also had a high which ended in disaster and a massive crash but you have to laugh at these things in retrospect where I travelled to America to meet and stay with a stranger, crashed from the high at the airport on the way back. Took an overdose on the plane and ended up causing it to have to divert to Iceland where I spent some time in hospital. Well, I guess it's better than having been the pilot of the plane and done that...

Cracked

OK. So here is my stupid story.

I was with a group that had entered in a charity chocolate carving contest. maybe I ate too much chocolate but I was flying.

I filled the palm of my right hand with chocolate sauce and went and shook hands with the announcer from the local TV station which was hosting the event.

Dumb eh!
I thought I was such a clown.

@ Thebetterhalf: HA!! Too bad for them! You should've raised the price even more.

Cracked, I really laughed out loud! I had this image pop in my head of a girl with a sneaky look leaving 2 pence on toilet seats and grinning mischievously. And causing a plane to divert to Iceland... Just wow!

Skilsaw, what was his reaction? I think I would've slapped you with a chocolate carving!

My manias usually end up in violence, not much fun really. Like that one time I chocked a girl because she showed me a dead wasp. See, funny, isn't it?

I researched talking to spirits, and tried to contact my spirit guide. I saw a bright light coming out of something's eyes, and then almost flinched away, but immediately tried again and saw two bright amber eyes staring at me. It was like some kind of clear connection in my mind's eye.

So I checked Google and found that it's supposedly a spirit wolf which is American Indian. I just thought it funny because that's not the kind of spirit guide people on the spiritual forums try to contact and it's a complete different thing from what these spiritual people believe in and I don't really believe in these things.

So then I thought I accidentally connected to my dog's spirit (which is still alive). I asked him if he is an American Indian spirit wolf and he just stared at me blankly.