I was looking back over my old posts mostly to see when I got my bipolar diagnosis (August 28, 2014). Naturally I have been living with bipolar for much longer.
I realized that my more recent posts have been much more "dear diary" and less... something else. I don't know what. Largely because I am busy doing other things, I suppose. And because when things are going well I am not desperate to find information about how to make them go better or to label what might be going wrong. But I miss the exercise of writing something beyond just the humdrum (one can only hope) day-to-day stuff. However, I don't feel up to writing anything but the hum-drum at the moment. (See what I mean about having other things to do!) I am obsessively and sleeplessly (and ironically) binge-watching Homeland with Claire Danes who plays a CIA agent with bipolar disorder. Here is what I have come to believe after viewing the first three seasons:
I read some reviews that wondered if her brilliant flashes of insight were caused by her disease or in spite of her disease. This is a wonder that happens in real life. Hard to run a scientific study on that. Here is where my soapbox sits... Brilliance is not a feature of bipolar. It simply co-occurs. Of course, mistaken belief in your own brilliance is a feature of bipolar. I am looking forward to being done watching the series because I become entirely too invested in what is happening to the characters and any show dealing with international terrorism is not terribly kind to its participants. Grateful Crap: teaching ELL (which was oddly enough the main character's job when she was fired; I think it would have made a better career choice for her in the first place, but a less compelling storyline I guess.) Equatorial Actions: meds good food sorta good sleep (but not really because I keep watching Homeland) Comments are closed.
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