“But one thing, the most dangerous thing in fact, about bipolar disorder is this: when people are no longer in fight-or-flight, fear, or anxiety mode, nothing feels right. You’re waiting for the other shoe to drop, and you have to take the time, years usually, to rewire your brain to accept a calm life. But until time or medication or therapy does that rewiring, when you’re living that simple life—no danger, no brushes with the law, no yard fights, no survival mode—you create situations for that adrenaline. For that rush of danger. For that I’m not supposed to be doing this feeling. That
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