Over the years, I’ve learned that my bipolar disorder brings me certain gifts. But those gifts often come with a serious cost
“The depressed person is mired in the past; the manic person is obsessed with the future. Both destroy the present in the process. In the worst-case scenario, the depressed person takes her life, the manic ruins hers. In manic-depressive illness, one suffers from both tragic risks.
Yet for all its dangers, mania can confer benefits that psychiatrists and patients both recognize. A key aspect of mania is the liberation of one’s thought processes … the emancipation of the intellect makes normal thinking seem pedestrian.”
