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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Chasing Perfection in Bipolar Disorder

Mania and hypomania often stem from hopeful, idealized possibility rather than external stimuli; bipolar disorder includes prolonged depressive episodes with distinct emotional and behavioral symptoms.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

I used to embrace my manic episodes until a therapist's advice set me straight, and out on a butterfly hunt | Claire Jackson

Please sit down, I begged my neighbour, who was leaning across the car gearstick, arm stretched around my headrest. My pleas for him to fasten his seatbelt were futile. Now he was jigging about, gesticulating wildly as he revealed his latest plans. He had told me before about the script he was writing for Gary Oldman. I hadn't thought too much of it, then all writers have to be a bit grandiose, I had reasoned, otherwise they wouldn't achieve anything.
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