You know how I’ve talked about how mania reminds me of my boozing days? Here’s a way in which the tail end of a manic episode mimics waking up the morning after a drinking binge: a delightful phenomenon my good friend Jesse calls the bipolar hangover. I gotta admit it…..I feel like crap. As in exhausted, like I finished aContinue reading “The Hangover”
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Today’s Forecast: Manic, With A Slight Chance of Batshit Crazy
As you may have guessed by its title, this post is all about mania…….at least as I experience it. Now is actually a very good time to discuss this defining characteristic of bipolar disorder, as I’ve recently come down from that particular end of the “pole” and thus I can do a better job of describing what happens toContinue reading “Today’s Forecast: Manic, With A Slight Chance of Batshit Crazy”
A Weekend in Ensenada (and Other Stupid Things I Do When Manic)
Way back in the day when I was a newly-minted 21-year-old, I once threw some clothes in the back of a friend’s pickup truck on the spur of the moment and went to Ensenada, Mexico, over the long Labor Day weekend. I didn’t say a word to anyone in my family that I was leaving,Continue reading “A Weekend in Ensenada (and Other Stupid Things I Do When Manic)”
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