*ouch* Richocheting around the room sounds bruising...
You describe it all beautifully, and it sounds painfully familiar in parts. I don't get the manias, but it feels like I cycle between being functional/okay/reasonably cheerful/myself/aware and being inward-turned/scared/hiding/miserable/ depressed/unaware. I hate not being able to predict how I'll be functioning when I'm in an unstable phase (currently trying to tweak meds, so here I am...).
Have you read Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind? I found it oddly comforting, esp. her descriptions of depression... "Oh, so I'm really NOT making this up..." Sigh.
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Date: 2003-09-04 10:02 am (UTC)You describe it all beautifully, and it sounds painfully familiar in parts. I don't get the manias, but it feels like I cycle between being functional/okay/reasonably cheerful/myself/aware and being inward-turned/scared/hiding/miserable/
depressed/unaware. I hate not being able to predict how I'll be functioning when I'm in an unstable phase (currently trying to tweak meds, so here I am...).
Have you read Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind? I found it oddly comforting, esp. her descriptions of depression... "Oh, so I'm really NOT making this up..." Sigh.
Hang in there.