My hypomanic self has a separate identity that was given to me by some army buddies. Even back before the episodes started, my friends recognized that there was regular "joe Grunt" and then there was Tyrone. Tyrone seems very real sometimes to the point where I wonder if I have a second personality... But I don't think it's nearly that dramatic. My therapist says it's bad to give it an identity.

But it feels so good to be Tyrone. He is better than me, he's more confident, he don't care what people think, he says all the right things... He does a lot of wrong, but he doesn't care, which is the problem. So yeah - im a mess.