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Whats the weirdest thing that happened to you while manic

Postby houseplant » Wed May 29, 2024 3:42 pm

I have had some weird things happen because I have religious delusions while manic and I think alot about the end times and stuff like that. However once when I was manic I had something really weird happen when they put me in this Catholic hospital. First off people were talking about the end times and ask me what I thought about had it started yet. I told them what I thought and then some very strange things started to happen but the weirdest was this.

OK all a sudden there was these huge tornados on the tv somewhere and the staff at that hospital started acting like they wanted to get me out of there. They kept telling me were working on getting your paperwork done and we should be done soon as possible. I was still pretty manic so I don't know what the urgency was. Well a hour or two went by and they got my paperwork done so they made me ride a wheel chair to go down to be released.

This is the really weird part. I think every doctor and nurse in that hospital was lined up in the hallway passing by when they wheeled me out. It was the weirdest thing I ever saw. I have no clue why they were there or why anyone would want to see me. It really played into my mania though and freaked me out for several more weeks. It kind of still does to this day. I dont know what to make of it.
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Re: Whats the weirdest thing that happened to you while manic

Postby Triskelion » Mon Jun 03, 2024 8:17 am

Okay so I'm not diagnosed with bipolar (yet?), so take this for what it is.

It seems your delusion / hallucination may have been rooted in reality / truth though. Maybe you just imagined a couple of extra people, made it feel like a whole thing when in reality there may have been a doctor and two nurses. I wouldn't know for sure of course, but maybe you can rest better knowing it was probably not as grand a thing as it seemed ?

As for me, I've had a lot of weird things going on/happening when in these high energy, little sleep, solid confidence states (what one could believe to be [hypo]mania). It'd be difficult to pick out the weirdest thing. The one that caused me the most issues however was the time that I believed I harbored a portal within my body / soul through which creatures from another dimension could enter our world and these creatures could posses me to give me their special powers and knowledge. The reason it caused trouble was because my "friends" played into it and helped me keep it a secret instead of getting me the help I needed.

The worst is that when I then went into what has been diagnosed as a major depression, I heard voices which thanks to these "friends" I interpreted as the same creatures.

Looking back, that was weird for sure, and I can't wrap my head around how I could have ever believed that.
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Re: Whats the weirdest thing that happened to you while manic

Postby felinematters » Fri Aug 23, 2024 2:34 am

When I was manic, I had intense grandiose delusions that made me convinced of this weird cosmic narrative about how I was connected to certain important people in a very complex constellation that was impossible to explain to anyone. I would see random facts and it would just feel like it was affirming this reality that I was part of some large cosmic plan. It got worse and worse over two years, I would have these manic episodes where this narrative progresses, and depressive episodes where I would stop having it and it just kind of goes back to normal but I'm depressed and can't get out of bed easily.

However, after a while, I had a serious psychotic break and just broke off from reality for months because my condition was not being treated or addressed and I was in a really bad spot in my life. So I was basically psychotic both when I was manic and depressive in that cycle, and it was really hard to do things because hallucinations and voices would constantly be interrupting me, and I was convinced of all these angels and radio waves communicating in my brain through patterns in my vision. it was super cooked. And everything felt like it was telling me secrets, and I would receive important messages to write down as holy texts or something and they were usually just complete nonsense, letters and diagrams and references to incomplete word-phrases. There were paintings that would suck me into all these infinite loops and I would get "trapped" in images, it was so weird. I also really struggled to speak and I moved very erratically at this time.

Nowadays I appear to have a manic episode every year starting in the summer and going through the fall but it's not as screwed up anymore. I'm a lot more calm and able to manage my symptoms and I don't even take medication anymore, although I would not recommend it for other people and I did it with my therapist. But the delusions persist, and so there is this strange thing I sometimes know is a delusion and sometimes feels extremely real to me, about this cosmic connection or whatever.

I'm actually surprised they didn't diagnose me schizoaffective but whatever lol
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Re: Whats the weirdest thing that happened to you while manic

Postby quietgirl2538 » Tue Feb 25, 2025 11:55 am

I've had some weird things happen to me. But I recall believing that I was given people's pain and mental struggle so I could help them carry it. Totally weird. That doesn't happen.

I believed I was God and by the thought of something I could do the impossible. Fix a problem a person had in their life. "I" have fixed it, go in peace. LOL! :mrgreen: I am very religious so those tended to be my mania topics sometimes. My hallucinations I had had were very few. 2. Mostly it tended to be me being some supernatural thing. The virgin Mary too. If Jesus ever came to earth, I wouldn't believe it, I'd call my psychiatrist and say I am having hallcinations and need to be sent to a psychiatric hospital.
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