Have you ever experienced the manic side of bipolar disorder?

If so, what did you do? What are your symptoms? Have you ever had an episode and watched it coming on, kind of knowing but not-knowing? Does it feel good— the power; that sense of invincibility? So good that you don’t want to stop it? Or does it scare you, knowing what may follow?

Did you catch it? How soon? Did you get help, or did you crash before you got help? Did you tell anyone? Did anyone ask you what was going on, before you noticed it?