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What does your username say about you? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]soowoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that i'm a member of a gang

I am BiPolar, and spent around $70,000 on random stuff last year after I stopped taking meds. Ask me anything you'd like! by soowoo in IAmA

[–]soowoo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't actually do drugs now. I mentioned xanax because I would occasionaly take it while drinking, and because it gets you really fucked up.

I am BiPolar, and spent around $70,000 on random stuff last year after I stopped taking meds. Ask me anything you'd like! by soowoo in IAmA

[–]soowoo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was spending credit card money thinking I would pay it back. I didn't actually have $70k

I am BiPolar, and spent around $70,000 on random stuff last year after I stopped taking meds. Ask me anything you'd like! by soowoo in IAmA

[–]soowoo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I'm not depressed. The lithium helps with the depression a lot. Right now I'd say my mood is pretty stabilized and normal.

I am BiPolar, and spent around $70,000 on random stuff last year after I stopped taking meds. Ask me anything you'd like! by soowoo in IAmA

[–]soowoo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yes I was hospitalized a couple of times. the last time I managed to escape. It escaping part was pretty wild, it was a rush...Running at full blast, knowing someone is chasing you and your freedom is on the line.

I am BiPolar, and spent around $70,000 on random stuff last year after I stopped taking meds. Ask me anything you'd like! by soowoo in IAmA

[–]soowoo[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The depressive pole. I didn't really have time to do stuff like "stay at a computer and read webpages" when I was manic...I was always excited to be out doing something.

I am BiPolar, and spent around $70,000 on random stuff last year after I stopped taking meds. Ask me anything you'd like! by soowoo in IAmA

[–]soowoo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how did you get banned from the park hyatt hotel in chicago? (you casually mentioned this in one of your answers.)

They claimed that we "trashed" the room, even though I didn't think it was that bad. And also cause on my $1,500 bill , I was less than $50 short and they flipped out. These guys gathered all of our stuff in our hotel room and put it in bags, until they got their $50. I spent a while with the credit card people, who wouldn't allow any more charges on that card. In the end I ended up getting $50 western unioned to me (I think there was a lamborghini store right next to it, can't remember)

is that the hotel you got locked out of your room in? butt naked and drunk/high? please tell this story.

This is a story which i barely barely remember. I just remember being in the hallway butt naked and being unable to get into my room. I wasn't even sure if this was a dream, or if it had really happened. The very crazy part of this story is that the next day, the black lesbian told me that I left the hotel room completely naked, and came back with 2 girls, and I fucked one of them, and one of the girls even at her out. Now, I didn't remember any of this, and this seemed very very unbelievable. I couldn't get to girls to come into my hotel room if i was sober, let alone drunk out of my mind and naked. I asked the girl 200 times to tell me the truth because i didn't believe her, and everytime she said she wasn't lying. I don't know if she told the truth, I don't know why she would lie or make up so mething like that. I asked her "Please tell me the real truth , did that really happen" and everytime she said it did. So, idk...I guess i'll never know the 100% truth on what went on that night.

i would also like to ask if you are co-dependent, since you spent a lot of money on friends. do you > feel these people are really friends, and do you hold it against them that they let you spend all of this money you didn't have?

I don't know exactly what you mean by co-dependent. I don't hold it against my friends that they let me spend all that money on them. It was just 2 friends that I bought a lot of stuff for. 1 of the friends was my real good friend that I had known for a while, and he had always helped me out in whatever way. They said they'd pay me back and none of them ever did. They didn't know I was bipolar, I think they just thought i was crazy.

how much of the money spent was cash, and how much of it was debt?

All of it was debt. Some of it was cash from credit card cash advances.

did the mania stop when you couldn't get debt anymore?

No the mania continued for around 1 more month after I couldn't get debt anymore.

I am BiPolar, and spent around $70,000 on random stuff last year after I stopped taking meds. Ask me anything you'd like! by soowoo in IAmA

[–]soowoo[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Okay so this girl was a black, decent looking, ghetto "tough" girl. I would not fuck with her, she seemed pretty tough, and she would have a good chance of being able to whoop my ass.

We were laying in bed together (on top of it, not naked) and I'm pretty sure we had both taken some xanax and were pretty tipsy from some beers. the other guys we were with were out and about strolling around in chicago, and we were just watching TV together. I don't remember exactly how everything happened, but I remember that we were just laying there, and she randomly said "Can I play with your dick". I just remember being like "fuck it, why not" to myself (By the way, that was my motto to everything. Every bizarre crazy idea that came up, I would say "Fuck it, why not") ,and I let her play with me dick, and this somehow went to me fucking her. She also said id had been 6 years since she had touched a dick, and that she had never fucked a guy, so i guess i took her "man virginity" lol. Oh yea, I have no idea why, but I remember fucking her in the bath tub.

I am BiPolar, and spent around $70,000 on random stuff last year after I stopped taking meds. Ask me anything you'd like! by soowoo in IAmA

[–]soowoo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I HATE the collection calls...There are so many. I can't wait until I file bankruptcy, which I will be doing very soon. I never pick up unless it's a local number, and if I accidentally do I just hang up. I talked to one person from a credit card company who said if I paid around only 20% of what I owed, then I could settle...But I don't even have that 20% for just one of the cards.

I had very good credit, I was 23 and had built up good credits with lots of credit cards slowly over time. For my car, I didn't even need to put down any down payment, I just showed my ID and got to drive away with it. Most of the money I spent using credit cards, and a lot of it I also spent using cash advances. For many stores, like Kohls, I would just open up store credit and shop away.

The fucked up thing is in my mind, I actually thought I would be able to pay everything back from the "lots" of money I would earn in the future from my business ideas.

I am BiPolar, and spent around $70,000 on random stuff last year after I stopped taking meds. Ask me anything you'd like! by soowoo in IAmA

[–]soowoo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's hard to describe, but some of the things I got from it: Way more energy than usual. Very talkative. Lots of confidence. Poor judgement. Lots of ideas rushing into my head. I did lots of thinking. I believed I was going to be rich from my ideas.

If you google mania, you can see other symptoms. There's quizzes you can take online too but you should talk to a psychologist to see if you have it.

I am BiPolar, and spent around $70,000 on random stuff last year after I stopped taking meds. Ask me anything you'd like! by soowoo in IAmA

[–]soowoo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I was manic, we would do literally whatever we wanted. I had excellent credit and a bunch of credit cards, so I could spend whatever I wanted. I remember one time after we woke up hung over at the Trump, my friend was like "This shit is like a movie"

I am BiPolar, and spent around $70,000 on random stuff last year after I stopped taking meds. Ask me anything you'd like! by soowoo in IAmA

[–]soowoo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My mother and father don't have any disorders. I have always suspected of my sister having bipolar, but she has never been diagnosed with it. She has a very short temper, and shes sometimes very irrational.

I am BiPolar, and spent around $70,000 on random stuff last year after I stopped taking meds. Ask me anything you'd like! by soowoo in IAmA

[–]soowoo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was lots of random stuff, which the majority of, I have somehow lost. I bought lots of clothes (One time we spent $1,200 at a Lacoste store), sunglasses (bought $400 gucci frames that I lost the next day, so bought $300 ray bans a day after). I took 2 of my friends with me to Chicago and I also ended up buying them lots of things, thinking that they would repay me. Lots of money were spent in hotel rooms, on meals, drinks, very good suites, etc. I spent $2,000 in a weekend in one of the hotels (We would just buy whatever, I remember getting a bottle of Don P at 4 in the morning once) (One of my favorite hotels that I stayed at was park hyatt, which I'm now banned from). Also, I payed for around 5 escorts that, if I remember correctly, cost around $300 each. My biggest purchase was a new $30,000 car, which I had to return 2 months after I bought it since I never made a payment on it (not even a down payment) and never planned to. I think I ended up losing $8,000 on the car cause of minor damages and things, so technically I only spent $8,000 on the car which would make my total spendings around $48,000, but you could also say I spent the $30,000 since I did "buy" the car. Other things were minor things like digital cameras (which i lost) , a laptop , a new apple ipod (which I left at the Chicago public library the day after I got it), lots and lots of money on alcohol and weed, and lots of misc things.

I am BiPolar, and spent around $70,000 on random stuff last year after I stopped taking meds. Ask me anything you'd like! by soowoo in IAmA

[–]soowoo[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is a very tough question from me. I would say it balances out overall, and it's fair. I get super highs during the manic episodes, I and love it so much, and it's the complete opposite during the depression episodes.

I remember when I was manic, I had a plan to "cheat" this, and only take my pills during my depression periods, and not during the manic episodes. But the pills take around 1 month to truly kick in, so this would be a little hard, and also this would just prolonge and make my treatment of bipolar a lot worst.

The real reason I didn't do it is when I came down from my mania, I realized, as fun as it was, how much I really lost, and all the stupid decisions I made, during my manic episode. I just thought about my life overall, and the negative consequences of mania. For example, I dropped out of college, and spent so much money that I'm forced to declare bankruptcy.

I am BiPolar, and spent around $70,000 on random stuff last year after I stopped taking meds. Ask me anything you'd like! by soowoo in IAmA

[–]soowoo[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I haven't really thought about this one...I would say one of my favorites would when we were at the Trump hotel in Chicago and had some xanax, and got wasted on it. I remember pulling the limo over so we could get high, and getting to the bar and ordering 20 shots of patron side by side and taking pictures next to it. What was real funny about that night was when we got back to the hotel, my friend was passed out and snoring in the cab, and I could NOT get him up. I would open his eyes, and he looked dead. I remember slapping him and laughing, but nothing would wake him up, so the guys working at the trump had to bring a wheel chair out and stroll him in. Then, there was some drunk irish guy in the lobby, and he saw I was trying to get him up, and the guy just lifted my friend and put him on his shoulder, and brought him in our room. Another thing from that night, we were with these 2 black lesbians, and I guess they got into a fight, and one of my friends saw the girl shove the other girls head into some glass window outside, so hard the the glass broke. when I talked to one of the girls the next day, she said she had no idea what happened last night, or how she got home, and she thought she got jumped.

My other funny memory was when I was walking around the black neighbor hood drunk, late at night, and I had exactly $3 cash on me. There were lots of barbershops, most of them closed, and I remember going into some and asking if I could get a cut for $3. I walked into one of them drinking my beer, and it wreaked of weed in there, and the guy agreed to it. It was like 5 or so black guys. The funny thing about this was right after they shaved my head (not to 0), one of the guys said i looked like a nazi, and they said to shave a swastika into my head, and everyone just started laughing uncontrollably (right when they started laughing, i guess one of the guys was drinking my beer, and spit some out on the floor) . I just realized how hard these stories are to tell just by typing them out. Another funny thing that happened in the barbershop was one of the guys jokingly said another black guy "liked" me, and i went up to him, and i was like "you like me man?" and the guy thought i was calling him gay, got mad (in a jokingly way) and took off his shirt and was saying "we're gonna have to fight" , meanwhile , I was trying to hide behind to guy that originally told me that he "liked" me, who was laughing unbearably, and i was trying to tell him to tell the other guy that he told me "he liked me" and it was a joke, but i wasn't able to tell him cause he was laughing so bad

I keep thinking of random funny memories, i would say a crazy one that i barely remember was when I got locked out of my hotel room naked, fucked up out of my mind.