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Originally Posted by MuddyBoots
... a lot of the time I'm in the hospital for mania I'm just in there charting away at complex analysis problems I made up because it seemed more important to figure out sqrt(-6x+5) than go to group. I'm wondering if there's something to that, or if I actually like this stuff and I have more energy to dive into it when I have more energy from being up.
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Almost certainly both. I'm pretty sure there's no cut and dried answer, and you'll have to sort out for yourself, situation by situation, how much of which best helps you get through what.
If you take the position that group seldom does much for you and is well worth avoiding, then working on sqrt(-6x+5) is bound to feel like a better way to occupy yourself -- even more so if you already find problems like that inspiring.
If, on the other hand, you already know that group most likely
would be worth going to but you also didn't like the idea of what stuff it might stir up for you or what uncomfortable situations it might jam you into, you might then choose to view math problems as a distraction from taking care of yourself.
At any given moment, is the glass half full or half empty? (And either way, who says so?)