10 ways to tell that you have bi-polar disorder:

1. You work 20+ hours a day, in hyper mode for 2 or 3 weeks straight.
2. You crash and spend 1 or 2 weeks in bed or hiding under your desk.
3. When manic, you’ll have sex with anything that moves.
4. When manic, You wake up in the morning and have no idea where you are or who that woman next to you is.
5. When manic, you don’t need to sleep, that only gets in the way of living.
6. When manic, you can drink with no repercussions
7. When manic, you think that you can do anything
8. When manic, you get ideas that you think are the greatest ever had by man.
9. When manic, you start grandiose projects, investing money and time with no reserve.
10. When manic, all the music sounds bright and clear and all the lyrics make sense.
11. When manic, you think that everything you say and think is of utmost importance and that everyone should listen.
12. When manic, you wake up on a park bench and don’t know what town you are in or where the bike is.
13. When manic, you spend money like you have it, and money that you don’t.
14. When manic, you don’t think that traffic rules and speed limits apply to you.
15. When manic, everything is bright and clear and shining.
16. When manic, you wake  up on the side of I55 to a State Trooper knocking on your window and you don’t know how or why you are there, and he wants to know both.
17. When depressed, everything hurts.
18. When depressed, nothing is right, everything is bleak and doomed.
19. When depressed, no music sounds good.
20. When depressed, you are certain that no one cares for you and you are alone in this world.
21. When depressed, dying sounds like a good idea, like the best option.
22. When depressed, there is no light at the end of the tunnel, it is an oncoming freight train.
23. When depressed, there is no point in living, it will only prolong the pain.
24. When depressed, there is no point in living because you know you will only go through the cycle again.
25. When depressed, it doesn’t matter who says what to you, you know that your are fatally flawed and don’t deserve to live.
26. When depressed, the best idea of the day is to put the .45 to your head and pull the trigger as a way out.
27. When depressed, all of your past mistakes are playing out in your mind like a television show in reruns.
28. When depressed, you can only remember the fuck-ups and nothing else.
29. When depressed, you know that you are wasting oxygen.
30. When depressed, you don’t communicate with anyone, no  phone calls, no texts, no emails go replied.