[mossanimal]

I've been reading a cool novel by Hugh Howey called 'Wool'. It's sort of a post-apocalyptic thing.. and I kept noticing him using a lot of bipolarish references... manic, depressed, loathing showers, etc.. so I looked him up. Well it turns out that he has this amazing series of short pieces on his sailing adventures.. adventure combined with his thoughts on psychology. Almost all of the titles of these stories have polar extreme type names... 'Hot and Cold', 'Hell and Heaven', something about depression.. can't remember exactly, etc. A driving premise is modern human's addiction to dopamine and how we are saturated with 'dopamine switches' that lead to.. problems. Video games, Facebook, crap food, alcohol, etc. I don't know exactly where I'm going with this thread other than the fact that there is some good stuff in there for those dealing with bipolar, addiction, depression, etc. damned entertaining too.

Blog - The Wayfinder - Hugh C. Howey