Weblog De Fuego: I Want To Be Manic Again

Sunday, January 09, 2011

I Want To Be Manic Again

I want to be manic again. I'm tired of being depressed

and feeling out of sinc. I am thinking of trying Lithium

which should bring me up to baseline and that would

be good and better than doing nothing.

1 comment:

Pyxis630January 19, 2011 at 4:59 PM
I know the feeling, wishing sometimes to be manic again. Lithium is fantastic, but it is not an anti-depressant. It stops the cycling and the mania. The idea is when you don't cycle you don't dip into depression - or something like it. Works well for me, but I was (or am) always more on the manic side of things if left to my own devices.

Talk to your doc about it. In addition check out psycheducation.org. You'll find great info about BP in general and also about treatment options.
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True Creative Genius

"Though this psychopathology is not for one to

wish, one interesting association with bipolar

disorder is the creativity of those afflicted.

This is not the normal creativity experienced

by the above-average people (on the scale of

creativity). This creativity is the creative genius,

which is so rare, yet an inordinate percentage of

the well-known creative people were/are afflicted

with manic depression. Among the lengthy list are:

(writers) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway,

Sylvia Plath; (poets) William Blake, Sara Teasdale,

Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson; (composers)

Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky. Psychiatrists, realizing

a connection greater than coincidence, have performed

studies all over the world in an attempt to establish a

link between bipolar disorder and creativity."

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"A just and wise society would care for its artists. A just and wise society would recognize that on the margins of its norm live its geniuses, and though they are strange and sometimes difficult, they must be cared for, for they are the treasures of our time, and they produce the treasures of our time."

Cary Tennis