The rage terrified me. My bf would fly off the handle over the smallest things.

I've never heard of a "manic fit". I know mania exists but I don't think a Manic Fit is part of bipolar. It sounds like a neurological problem, like a brain seizure.

Yes, my mum gets like that. She has a 'mad' look in her eyes when she is manic, which gets worse when she would go in a manic rage at me, she would also spit the words out literally.

It depends on the person #2, my mum is so so scary when she is manic, completely out of control.

my brother never foamed at the mouth, but he did have manic rage, and his eyes would glass over, and it was like looking at a completely different person.

I walked on egg shells around him for 4 yrs.. I woke up one day and i had enough, i cant live in fear anymore..

depends on what sets him off. could be anything... even from way earlier in the day. can get really talkive and pleasure to be around, to really angry, where i have to take the car keys away.

I have never seen the foaming at the mouth but am very familiar with the eyes going black. The pupil covers the entire iris almost. I know what is coming next!!!!!!!

My boyfriend goes into a rage and he'll scream and hit things (not people) when he gets that way I'm lucky and have never been the main target. Its still scary though.

Mir and those like you are lucky!! My X in his rages would take em out on me..

I was tossed around, slammed down, fist high in the air ready to come down on me!

I ran from him twice. each time. lets say i did not get too far from him.. He came at me like a kidnapper in the dark.. Hand over mouth, pinching my nose, arm around my waist keeping me from breathing.. Thrown back into the house cos' i was not allowed to leave him!

Held down the floor him screaming to wake my son and our son.. just to tell them their mother is a worthless fucking whore for wanting to leave him!

I think this is more domestic violence than bp. & foaming at the mouth? What antiquated and offensive stereotype of mental illness is this?

When a person is in a manic rage it is very similar to domestic violence.

My mum has never foamed, sounds a bit rabid.

'foaming at the mouth' and the word 'evil' really awful stereotype.

My husband would dance around like a boxer and say things like, "You hate me don't you! Just say you hate me! Say it." He would just be looking for a fight. He would be in an aggressive mood. Get that I said MOOD. As in MOOD DISORDER.

It is a bad way, but this is how some people perceive the rage they are subjected to with Bipolar.

I often thought over the years, that in the middle ages when people were said to be possessed, that they more than likely had a mental illness. But others thought that they had demons in them.
When my mum is in a manic rage it is like she has demons inside her.

It's very scary to be confronted with that, and even though now I have learnt how to behave when she is manic (don't say anything that could make her hit me), she still will rage on at me.

that's much better than 'evil' and 'foaming at the mouth'.