6. Flighty Ideas
You may notice a person who fails to seem able to stay on one topic of conversation. This typifies the Manic state of the Bipolar individual. It is similar to Freud’s free association, where he would have individuals come in for therapy, and simply vocalize their stream of consciousness. However, for these individuals, in this particular manic state, they are unable to control it. They may not even be aware of their aimless across-the-board topics of conversation.
This can end up looking like one person bright-eyed and rambling, likely speaking over the other person frequently due to their excited ideas and sense of urgency in speech, while the other person is, basically not enjoying the conversation and likely feeling very disregarded or simply confused.