u/MrFahrenheitttttt

So for those who don't know, Manic episode is a prolonged period of one's mood being abnormally elated, irritable and high energy. Usually lasts for more than a week. The common signs can be high energy, no need to sleep, racing thoughts, gradiosity, fast talking, impulsive and odd behavior. Each individual is different from another.

I just had one the other day. For disclaimer, I had no idea what Manic episode was before the incident. I felt like an experimenter poking a bear and wait to see different reactions, trying to understand the odd change of behavior.

So that night while I was doing my NA work, Mr. A(a hotel guest) brought this guy with him back to the hotel, let's call him Mr. W. He is 62yo, tall, thin, wearing a fashionable sunglasses at night time. My first impression, He was a VERY chatty person. Even though I just met him, he just talked your ears off. I was just nodding and nodding with him, trying to tune out because I was typing something important on my screen. My co worker next to me who also didn't have anything to say, just nodding like me. What should have been a Hello and GOOD NIGHT turned into 3, 4 whole minute of him yapping to 2 strangers. In short, i dont like him but 1 thing for sure, HE CAN TALK.

On the day of the incident, Mr. W was in my lobby, mr A was not with him. He was oddly running around in my lobby, frustrated about something. He saw me, someone he recognized, and approached me for help. I greeted him, expected a very long convoluted explanation for this behavior. However,on this day, he had turned MUTE.

For some reason, he could not speak that day. He was like a mime, high on cocain, aggressively acting it out with his hands. But beside the fast hand movement and the inability to talk, what stood out to me was his facial expression, it was like the face of a thirsty doggy, wide mouth open, with the Hehehehehh mouth breathing sound, minus the stick out tounge though.

I don't know what game he played, I gave him a pen and paper, telling him to write what he wants to say to me. He could only write just 1 random word at a time.

"SATURDAY", "SUNDAY", MANIC", "JULIA", "MARIA", "WILLIAM".

Those were the words he wrote. That didn't help at all.

I told him "FOCUS, STAND STILL, COLLECT YOUR THOUGTS and write me a full sentence so I can understand". He couldn't, continued to write random words and made me guess what he was trying to say.

Unable to communicate to me, he suddenly ran off ...then came back 15mins later and cursed to me " You go and fcking get Mr.A RIGHT FCKING NOW". "Oh so now you can talk" I thought to myself.

Usually when someone using this tone with me or my staff, I would call security right away or i tell them i would call police if they don't calm down. However, out of respect for Mr. A, I called him first. Mr. A came down to see him, and he sent him away after 10mins talking. Mr. A then apologized to me about this whole trouble. He explained to me that this Mr.W guy is just someone he met in a club nearby, not a close friend, he got kicked out by his brother and is having a manic episode. He then gave me permission to call security next time because Mr A no longer wants to associate with Mr W. I agreed.

Later, 2:45 AM, Mr W came back. He turned MUTE again, same dumb face expression. One last time, I told him "WHAT DO YOU WANT? i know you can talk, stop wasting my time". And once again, nothing making sense came out of him. "Get out" I told him.

Later, 3:30AM, he came back again. This time I didn't even bother open the door for him. He angrily banging the door and cursed to me "Wait until I fcking see you outside".

Needless to say, I declared to ban him from the hotel and I shared with my FD team about this guy.

A day later, I heard he came back during lunch time. And this time, my GM personally handled him. Long story short, my GM thought this guy was wack and called the FD team to ban him, same like me.

One night i had a walk in, a young girl, a college student maybe. She seemed normal when she was at the desk with me. The only weird thing she said to me was "I am not crazy or anything" at the end of our interaction. It was weird but i didn't think much of it.

The next part is from my AM MoD. At noon, she supposed to check out but she refused. She couldn't give my MoD any rational answer of why she wanted to continue to stay but one thing was clear, she didn't want to pay. Then she changed tactic, she threw a tantrum like a child, screaming at my MOD "I AM STAYING I AM STAYING". Now the craziness is coming out.

After talking to MOD for a while, although my MOd is a somewhat soft spoken person, the girl acted like a cornered animal. She was hyperventilating and sweating.

Then all of a sudden, a guest dropped his room key at the desk next to them to check out. Our key came with a sleeve which we wrote the room number on it, when checking out, people just drop it and leave. The girl swiftly grabbed that guy's key and sprinted to the room, room 401.

"Wtf just happened" was my MOD reaction.

The girl now barricaded herself in room 401. Fast forward a bit, when all negotiations with MOD didnt work, we then called Police to deal with her. They knocked on the door, commanded her to come out or they would break in. In response, the girl yelled " I AM NAKED I AM NAKED, YOU CAN NOT COME IN". In my opinion, even though I myself have evicted a few resisting troublemakers in my time, this girl was wild and unpredictable, I have never seen such behavior before. But then again, you can not make sense of craziness. I wouldnt be surprised if she was holding a knife and about to charge to 1 of the policeman. That was the impression i had about her and my MoD agreed. Anything can happen, good thing we called the cop.

Anyway, The police broke the door, she indeed was naked and petrified. "Hand up, On the ground now" the police said. Took a while to put her in handcuffs. In the end, the police wrapped her in one of our bed sheets and basically dragged her down to their cruiser. Off they went.

A day later, her mom came to skew my MOD for what he did to her daughter. Let's just say, meeting the mom, you could understand why the daughter acting that way. My MoD just shrugged her away.