I get that way sometimes so I'll have to say yes here.

When I'm manic I tend to be more euphoric, creative, productive and falsely HAPPY!

I get that way when i'm hypomanic

dysphoria

Agree with Angel....Its only when I'm hypermanic get that way.....very agrivated by the slighest things angry even with myself that I even feel that way....quite disturbing it ca be...because I generally would never want to inflict pain on another person.....bu when I'm manic I'm everyons friend....chatting enlessly....no worries in the world ...everything is great.... happy place I kinda miss sometimes! I'll admit...i had to mourn that for a long time....but I reind myself its damaging all the same the recoverying time. Prior to medication I never knew what stable was and then....boom....I felt so lifeless and blar....i thought...wow...how borin for "Norms" if this is normal life....and so thatpart of beng BP always changing I actually don't mind. Learning to pick up on my warning signs (and that come with time and insight over several years) I can now weather the BP rollercoaster a hell of a lot better.
One friend with BP said its a gift and although its challenging its something I nver forgot him telling me not lon after dx - we are special loively lovign people and I love that side. Unique and definately something to be celebrated rather than denounced however devastating the illness can be. Glass half full i like to think anyway.

My rage scares me. I always joke my husband would never cheat on me since the repercussions from me would be so bad, worse than Glen Close in Fatal Attraction even, that he wouldn't dare. Yes, anger and irritibility is part of the DSM IV criteria for bipolar.

when im manic i get the same way!I seem to tell people off or down them if they piss me off like by attacking friends or making fun of others