My favorite aspect of bipolar disorder is the ability to bubble up creative ideas, choose a few, and develop them fully over whatever time period without the ordinary need for food and rest.

By choosing this, though, I'm saying I prefer a Heightened Reality to ordinary reality, a Super-Me to an ordinary me. And of course I do. Which extends in part perhaps to why I'm an alcoholic.

So what's in it for me to take my medication as prescribed? It's prescribed so as to make me normal. Ordinary. Dear god, save me from being ordinary!

Being bi-polar saved me.

(oh, gee, just how sicko am I?)