In the summer of 2010 I experienced what seemed like a very intense manic episode. I had a few minor manic episodes before it and didn't experience any abnormal lows after them. Anyway, during that summer I had four nights where I didn't sleep or feel tired, all I wanted to do was dwell on my racing thoughts that soon turned very strange. I thought I figured out secrets about the world that only I knew. Basically, I believed that the world really wasn't as it seemed and that there was magic all around us that only a very few knew how to use. I was under the delusion that I could change the world with this knowledge by writing a sensational book and using my magic to get it published. It was all very exciting and I was happier than I have ever been. It truly was a blast living in a world where magic existed and I was more than just an average girl. After about a month of my elated state I got this terrable notion that demons had cought on to my plans and wanted to stop me from changing the world by possessing me. A week of terrible paranoia plauged me to the point where all I wanted to do was sleep. If it went on much longer I would have probably tried to kill myself. I started feeling better after I read that demons can't possess people who don't want to be possessed. My delusions lingered a little while after but I wasn't sure I really believed them like I once did. Eventually I didn't believe them at all. I've been feeling completely stable, not manic or more depressed than usual. I feel like I don't need lithium at all and it's been a year and seven months since that last ordeal. I'm pretty sure that the manic episode was not drug induced because I was only smoking weed at the time. I tried acid a few times before too but that was several months before the mania hit. If I were bipolor I would probably have another manic or depressive episode by now, and I wouldn't be able to cope without lithium. I had all the symptoms of a manic episode, but I'm not sure I'm bipolor....Does anyone know what could have happened? Any feedback would be much appriciated.