&gt; BTW: You mention you were aware that your thoughts would seem crazy to others. Were you also aware that they are crazy (or did they seem perfectly reasonable to you at the time)?<p>They always seemed as &quot;reasonable&quot; as they&#x27;ve always been. Ideas like solipsism, being God, free will, etc. And many more stupider and embarrassing ones. They are often philosophical in nature and you can argue them in many directions without reaching firm conclusions, whether you are having psychosis or not.<p>The difference is that when I started to become manic and have psychosis, they became about 100x more interesting and I had a very strong desire to share them with people, which made a fool out of myself by doing so. When you have psychosis you also misjudge social interactions a lot which makes it even worse.<p>In the hospital when the psychosis was getting really bad, it&#x27;s like reality itself begins to break. For example I have very vivid memories of another patient reading my thoughts and then saying them out loud. I&#x27;m still not sure what happened there.<p>At work I was pretty good at keeping it under wraps, though.