Planning gets hammered by bipolar. Where there used to be an overabundance of resolutions and schemes often there’s suddenly nothing. An emptiness that feels like depression even when you’re out of it, the depression, and renders your life aimless. You see the aimlessness and you panic. This is the danger of [...]
The lifting of spirits coming at the end of a long summer, when Fall is all around, is always a surprise. It comes, it comes on like a gust of light wind with a bite in it. Rusted iron in New York City, some of these early fall smells, the rain that isn’t [...]
I don’t feel like I have bipolar anymore. I’ve started disbelieving. It’s beyond belief that I would have this disorder. I’m not going through the extreme highs and lows, I never get the massive manias. Plus, my life is enough to make me look crazy. Not that my life is [...]