Madness
“One hot, sunny morning, three months after I first hear bipolar disorder from Dr. Beedle, I am suddenly, floridly mad. Just like that. Mad. I am going along, minding my own business, when I find that I have gone completely over the edge. Why today? Who cares? I am not thinking a bit about that, because, as I said, I've gone insane and couldn't possibly care less why. You don't wonder, when you've completely lost it, how. You were going about your morning, and now you are mad, and you can't reme...mber what it was like before. You will never really remember. Your life breaks in half, right there. Sure, I've been crazy before. I've been crazy all along. But this is different. This is fucking nuts.
Because I haven't told Lentz about the suicide attempt in 1994, he's diagnosed me with bipolar II. Bipolar II is a little milder than bipolar I (though it's still hellish); bipolar II has more depressive episodes than manic ones, and when the manic episodes occur, they're not as severe. I don't know it yet but I'll soon find out: what separates bipolar II from bipolar I is a manic break.MoreLess
Because I haven't told Lentz about the suicide attempt in 1994, he's diagnosed me with bipolar II. Bipolar II is a little milder than bipolar I (though it's still hellish); bipolar II has more depressive episodes than manic ones, and when the manic episodes occur, they're not as severe. I don't know it yet but I'll soon find out: what separates bipolar II from bipolar I is a manic break.MoreLess
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