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The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful.
It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered, that damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again, and that freedom from the control imposed by medication loses its meaning when the only alternatives are death and insanity.
A Painful truth
Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it; an illness that is unique in conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable suffering and, not infrequently, suicide.
This passage brings me back to my own, most severe, manic episodes.
I am fortunate that I have not died from my illness,
I am fortunate
“Off we go into the wild blue yonder,”
A part of the Air Force Song. It’s crazy how similar the author and I are. Her father was also in the Air Force; she too grew up moving so often as a military brat.
