STEPHEN FRY

My husband and I both have bipolar but to say all bipolars are alike would not be correct nor would I even suggest it. My husband recently had a spate of mania, not sleeping well, talking endlessly on the phone to things he was intrested in ( not to friends) spent money without letting know the details of, He doesnt need to consult me for spending money on a hamburger but advertsing which is more than our monthly rent, I like to know about. I dont have that urge to spend money, if I have it I shop for what I need and if I have spare what I want too. I am not impulsive though whereas my husband is.
He worried my parents who worried about his spending seeing as he does only work in catering as gaurnteed money coming in and his own business just started. At first he felt like he was being attacked, in classic manic way we get when we are in the mode of wanting to do this and that and the other. You cant tell us No. He was also having some disputes at his work acting in the same way. His whole thing came about when his doctor thought Geodon would be better than Abilify,which he was on and is on again. Geodon made him so tired and made him feel giddy, no appeite and then he stopped sleeping, so he got switched back but the switching and switching back caused a bit of mania.
Thankfully his mania is easing off. I now see what my folks have seen in me when I get manic which isnt very often with lithium and tegretol. I dont really see it, my mood swings are just womenly hormonal aka PMS but other than that its ever so slight now.