Playing with words is fun! Wright?! Clang associations are pretty much a daily funny for me. Essentially as I’m reading something, or watching something, or thinking about something a particular word stands out among the others. That word seems to make an indelible impression on my thoughts for the next few hours (read weeks). You […]
Continue Reading
My intention was to unpack the triggers and symptoms of bipolar disorder as depicted in the documentary. It wasn’t my intention to come to new conclusions and other theories about the saga. Well, I got carried away and you now have James’ theories and and unjustified conclusions about Elisa’s Lam’s mental state of mind, peppered […]
Continue Reading
Maybe I’m just an asshole. Something that often worms it’s way into my mind is that I am in fact not bipolar at all, just an asshole. Bipolar grandiosity is a wonderfully confabulated red-herring hiding an asshole in a sea of muggles. Bipolar mania, along with it’s siblings hypo-mania and others, often present as grandiosity. […]
Continue Reading
A friend sent a text saying: “You, my friend, are hilarious 😂” All the signs just fell into place by that one phrase: You, my friend, are hilarious 😂: Funny I may be, but soon it will fade to childishness. This morning I was totally over the top chatty to a barista and am now […]
Continue Reading
Recently I found myself in a desperate spiral of of unadulterated, uncontrollable rage that brought me to the brink of what I’ll call ‘manic disillusionment on the brink curtain fall’. I suspect this will be a very long post – I’m not sorry. It’s worth understanding the context of my most recent manic episode: this […]
Continue Reading
A classic bipolar symptom: irritability. Or is it? The muggles are already at, “blah, blah, blah… we all get irritated” and that’s irritating AF. It you just took the time to READ up, just a little, about what irritability is to bipolar bears and the consequences then maybe you’ll get. what. a. fucking. big. deal. […]
Continue Reading