A Year of Living Hypomaniacally

Last year, while on 200MG of Topamax and 30MG of Mirtazapine, and supposedly “in a managed bipolar state”, I proceeded to:

• Ask three women to marry me;
• Over spend my budget by $80,000
• Borrow from my IRA $120,000 to pay off this debt
• Owe $31,000 to the IRS because of the IRA “early withdrawal”
• Still owe $50,000 because I had to use the IRA withdrawal to live on

All the while, I lied to my Psychiatrist and Therapist about “how I was doing”. 

My Psychiatrist’s notes: “clear, rational, thoughtful”.  For 1 1/2 years!

My Therapist’s notes: “ready to graduate”.

I woke up and came out of my Hypomania in May 2008, and crashed into the deepest depression I’d ever experienced.