|
I understand the desire to trigger an manic or in my case hypomanic episode and have experienced it myself, but I've always decided it isn't worth the destabilizing effect, because as crappy as I might feel right now, a manic episode is just going to leave me feeling depressed when it ends.
__________________
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
|