When Mania Takes the Wheel
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- In 2018, I hunted down an Up Garage in the middle of industrial Nagoya, Japan to buy my brother a steering wheel for his car. The reason I agreed to this is because I was manic. I have the bipolar type of schizoaffective disorder, which means I experience manic episodes as part of my condition. Sometimes mania is not so good, but for me, most of the time it’s pretty great. This is one of those times.
But… I probably bit off more than I could chew. Fortunately, I got away with it-and with steering wheels lol-and I hope to never do something like this again.
Enjoy this episode of Tales from the Schiz!
And if you’re up for sharing, what’s the wildest thing you’ve done while manic or hypomanic? This is just one of the many wild stories I have!
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Dude sent his manic sister into the woods of Japan for nerd memorabilia.
so he could be manic...
Sending this comment to him 😂
Think I kept a wheel like a trophy sounded like a real adventure for anyone. Brother will be lucky if you give one of them back to him. Well successful trip. Scary but what an accomplishment.
one time i went to a local park because a voice named Andy told me there was free food. after arriving ppl were picnicking. i then sat at a families picnic table and began gorging on all the delectable foods. when i had a mouth full of Andy's so called free food, i looked up and everyone at the tables mouths were dropped. i then smiled thanked them and there was no confrontation. i was lucky because while manic as you, im considered very nice friendly and above all happy to do what ever possible to stay positive. i really enjoyed your story and i just wish we were all this happy while faced with our brief yet satifying episodes of mania. ty kitzo you make me laugh and i hope u and your audience feel the same.
Oh man this is a wild tale thank you for sharing! So insane what our brains do to us! Glad I made ya laugh too!
Amazing haha, it worked out perfectly
To me it’s not the gift it’s the effort to get the gift that makes it special. Very cool of you
Cool. I spent 3 mos. in Nippon in 2001, was there on 9/11. Teaching English. Visiting temples. Wandering through terrain vague in Ultima thule.
Sounds like a wild time
What a story!
Manic stories are the Best stories❤😂
Truly!
I don't know what I would be doing if I was manic but knowing myself it would probably be an adventure.
I’ve been on SO MANY ADVENTURES because of mania. Good and bad. Good ones are so great lol
I have paranoid schizophrenia I’m currently in a high dependency rehabilitation unit just found your channel I’ve subbed
Welcome to the channel and hang in there! 💪
Love the video title haha
This was before I got diagnosed so I can't say it with 100% certainty, but my hypomanic story involves a trip to Japan too! I made a quick decision to sign up to a month-long language course out there and even though the episode ended by the time I was due to go, I just had an absolute blast :)
Heck yes for having a blast in Japan! And thanks for commenting on the title it’s one of my favs!
Good for you for seeing it through. Not all manic disinhibition is negative.
Detained in a Bali prison after picking up my meds at Denpasar post office (because many meds are illegal there regardless of prescription and US legality). The sick part is, I want to go back. - Love your story and positivity. Embodying "The Fool" card is a life path that can (fortunately) come with mania. 😍
This is an absolutely incredible story Kit! The confidence that comes with mania is unstoppable. 😂 At least this story needed well!
That confidence is something else. Thanks!
Great story Kit!
Thanks!
Drove solo from Western Iowa to the Southernmost part of Indiana and back again in about 24 hours to surprise visit a friend of mine
Was very paranoid during my last manic episode 3 months ago, I managed to escape from the hospital by blocking the staff in the room using very heavy chairs. Talk about energy lol. Cops came and I ended up in a very secure unit
lmao I escaped from a secure unit by pulling the fire alarm (which automatically opens the doors of a locked ward). 😂
Not sure if it was a manic episode, but I once felt like things were getting too much so I switched my phone off, got in my car and drove around Johannesburg Metro several times (via the lengthy ring-road) in the space of a couple of hours. I knew there were no cameras or traffic officers on that highway so, in my weird irresponsible state, I decided to speed a bit and even dice with another sporty car. Eventually I calmed down enough to return back to my flat. Won't do something like that again, but part of it was quite fun.
I occasionally go on long drives for no reason both in and out of mania. Something about it just helps me sort stuff out. Thanks for sharing this!
@@SchizoKitzo Pleasure, Kitz.
Great video! you must of had some great times😁
Oh so many!
My brother and his wife are upgrading our house with extra roof floor, and I'm full time "employed" as construction worker's helper so I'm dead tired now, but I'll just leave this quick comment for the algorithm even though I would love to share some of my stories from my hypomanias, I'll do it some other video. Thank you Kit and take care :)
Best of luck with the construction and thanks for the comment. I appreciate it!
Mick Jagger banned from Japan until 78. When his band was still on top of their form. Diplomats begged to get him in? Think Japan had it right the first go round. Former lifetime fan. Thanks!
One thing I did while manic is try to get a job at Gould Farm which is a farm for mentally ill people. I tried to get a job there when I should have been a resident there instead.
Turns out I couldn't even be a resident there because of my financial situation. But it looks like a really cool place.
Great story, looks like your brother is going to struggle getting his wheels back! 😂
I ran away to join the French Foreign Legion about a year ago, thats probably the wildest thing I have done to date
That is wild! I hope it turned out alright! And he did get them back…. Reluctantly ofc /jk but it was fun to have them for the brief time I did!
From which country did you run away from and how old were you at the time?
and did it turn out to be your calling in life? Was it / is it a fun career choice?
@@a-ms9760 I was 24 and im from the UK, so its not far for me
@@a-ms9760 no it didn't im currently back in the UK, im onto driving trucks now. It definitely can be fun despite the high fitness standards and strict discipline
Wow those wheels are great, kit!
I owned 3 different brand new cars in a 4day spurt lost about 7000$ in the trades it was a massive manic episode that led me to the psychward back in 2022 here i am 2 years later trying to do medicine again because of my crazyness. They have me on risperidone but don't have me on anything for when i get depressed its been a struggle i started the risperidone 2 weeks ago
I changed my major to a more practical one while manic lol
I've been to strange isolated dangerous corners of the world alone for shits'n'giggles without being manic. I say this in case people start to question their mental state with regards to going on their gap years or holidays etc. Of course you should check in with your mental health as often as possible but sometimes we need to travel alone the other side of the world *for* our mental health not *because* of our mental illnesses
Hi I really enjoy your videos. I’m bipolar 2 and some of the things you talk about is like your explaining me. I was manic for like 2 weeks and didn’t even know it till people started mentioning my behaviors to me. I have a question that maybe you can help with. So even though I’m on meds I can still be manic obviously, correct? Once your manic is there any way to like stop it or so I have it run it’s coarse? Thank you in advance! Stay awesome!
Some docs can give meds that will treat hypomanic episodes but for sure there’s meds for full manic episodes. Me personally I’ve not been manic since I’ve gone on meds for mania. But I have been hypomanic plenty of times. So the meds keep the bad kind away and leave the arguably more manageable “good” kind, at least for me. Hope this helps!
@@SchizoKitzo I think that the meds give me more mixed manic episodes which are not fun. But the depression is much better on meds.
Three mentions of "What not"? Have you been watching Lauren's channel Living Well with Schizophrenia lately? ;)
I thought the same 😂
one of the weirder voices i heard was a uk rapper screaming at me "dont be outside this late dont be outside this late" over and over and over and over again. was weird shit, neither positive or negative
Sounds annoying as well!
I always enjoy your Tales from the Schiz and this was an especially interesting one! I had never even thought about steering wheels as something people go to Japan to get, LOL, but the ones you brought back for your brother are super cool. I'm glad you were able to buy them after going all the way out to that store and not being able to speak the same language as the cashier. And I'm glad you were safe the whole time despite feeling/looking more out of the place the further you got from the city. Did you get any strange looks/questions at customs when you flew the steering wheels home, or is that something they see all the time from Americans heading back? Thanks so much for sharing this story!
Surprisingly I didn’t get any weird looks from anyone, and I totally expected them to ask why I have brought them back but nothing happened and I was super grateful for that. No fees lol. Idk if they see it all the time or not and I don’t think too hard about it. Thanks for the comment GC!
In the middle of nowhere Carlots.😂❤
It’s true!
I like your tales from the skitz tittle I'm actually a big fan of the TV show tales from the crypt I feel alot with my skitzofrenia I'm in an episode of tales from the crypt 😊
That’s exactly why I named it the way I did! Good catch :)
Thank you 😊 you gotta live your life I've been diagnosed with schizophrenia for 24 years now there was talk when I was younger I might have tourists I'm glad I've been diagnosed it means alot to me you acknowledge ing that your word is support for me take it easy thanks very much take xare your sn amazing person I've tried to do things that help my life that holds freedom and adventure I've traveled a bit and tried to balance my life with music and sports I doo pretty good with both them let you know I do some boxing and play the drums 🥁 trying to be creative and positive with living with mental illness thanks very much with your side your an inspiration to me thank you take care be well thank you your amazing
I don't have any stories of wild things I did while manic, though I've done some wild things. I have schizo affected disorder bi polar type and haven't had many manic episodes. One doctor diagnosed me depressed type. I am not on a mood stabilizer. I take an anti psychotic and an anti depressant. I just don't enjoy much in life. I consider myself an intellectual, though I can't read THE NEW YORKER magazine, and I derive some pleasure from those activities. Time has played a trick on me. It's easier to believe one day I'll reach the end now that I'm 54. But it still seems very far away and I guess I need time to sort things out...
I’ve definitely done wild things in euthymia, even if some of my wildest stories are done in mania. Best of luck sorting stuff out!
Im sober... but I wish I was as normal as you...
Did this help clue you in to the dangers of your mania? Were you very depressed after the mania wore off?
At the time no and this was all part of my psychotic break. So yes, I was very depressed.
Mania and travel hmm? ok i met this lovely lady online and after chating for a few months decided to take the plunge and visit, what could go wrong hey? a few days before i was due to depart she tells me she doesn't want to see me, this obviously broke my heart, but i thought ok now i know she wasnt the one and took my plane to Jakarta on my way to the destination somewhere in the UK via the Neatherlands on Garuda, it started like the worst trip imaginalble i was in the airport in Jakarta and it was 6 hour stopover so i got on a bus to some tourist trap and half asleep already like was going to do the credit card and party, then thought hmm maybe not ( in some foreign land etc ) and they be like hey the bus doesnt go back for a few hours so yeah bought a drink and promply forgot my pin number shortly afterwards and like after panic for a few hours finally got the card provider to ok another few drinks so the hotel didn[t like kick me out and pay for the return bus lol so i get to the airport and its like after like 10 hours of travle from Sydney to Jakarta i am like only half way and almost asleep waiting for some English announcement for my plane ( of course there is none and nothing on the boards with my flight number on it ) and i am like waiting hours then something prompted me to get up from the floor and actually go and check and the plane has been waiting and i shoot down this ultra long passageway to the planes gate and just manage to get on the plane, and to shorten this, this was the entire journey got to the hotel and they were doing building ( of course ) so had to be woken up constanlty by hammers etc , anyway got the ring i brought with me and through it in the ocean with a wish for magic spell something ( still feeling manic about the whole episode ), at the resort town that had and had really good fish and chips somewhere in Cymru ( what the English invaders call Wales ) ( my mums homeland and it pierced my heart when a pair of young women passed me said heirithe ... sorry prob spelled that incorrectly but it means sadness or wistfulness for a lost land in Cymru ) and sighed ... Oh and love your story Kit ... but nothing like love mania for real manic lol .... Oh and as a post script to this story, i have images of the signals directorate ( GCHQ ) surveillance bus try to follow me on my walks along the shore on this trip,.... i am still convinced they followed me while in the UK as i am a champion of Julian Assange ( but thats a story for another day )
This was a wild tale from start to finish and thanks for telling it! Mania and travel seem super common even though I totally thought I was like…. The only one that did it. Wild what I thought back in the day but I guess that’s what happens when I think I’m alone. Glad you got back in one piece and thanks again for this tale!
I like how youre much smarter than me... even with a mental illness.. which proves the mind doesnt equal to natural intelligence
❤
Serious question; Does your mental instability keep you from having a boyfriend? I'm Bipolar 1 with Schizoaffective Disorder and I have completely given up hope on that part of my life... I won't even make eye contact with the opposite sex. I'm too nuts to be loved.
Tbh, idk. I’m not interested in a relationship right now so I’m not really focusing on it. I’d like to think that one day I will find someone or they will find me but I really just don’t know. And I think that’s okay. It’s something I can think about in the future. For now I’m focusing on me.
@@SchizoKitzo I think my only hope is to find someone as nuts as I am. But to be honest... I'm contemplating just checking out anyway. I can't do this anymore ☠️
Don't give up! I know people who have the same diagnosis and are married.
@@Catlily5 TY ❤
@@scottdunn2178 Sending💜
wait this behavior isn't normal?
Maybe without all the other factors I was dealing with it could be considered a fun excursion, But combined with my other manic and psychotic symptoms this one instance was just one piece of a larger puzzle. If id been right in my mind I would have waited until I was in Tokyo to do this, where there were other Up Garages that weren’t in the middle of nowhere, but that would have taken thought that I did not have the capacity to have. Hope this answers your question!
(Edits for spelling)
@@SchizoKitzo Oh ok thank you very much for your explanation
Great story Kit!
Thanks! It was a fun one to tell
Drove solo from Western Iowa to the Southernmost part of Indiana and back again in about 24 hours to surprise visit a friend of mine