Had a great session with my therapist yesterday that shed some light on why I'm so manic. We talked about the different sides of ourselves, like for me, the side of me that's the wounded child and then there are other sides, like the depressed side, the manic side, the OCD side, the CPTSD side, etc. All the other sides were created in my brain to protect the first side, the wounded child.

The problem is their attempts to rescue me are killing me.