“I know the empathy borne of despair; I know the fluidity of thought, the expansive, even beautiful, mind that hypomania brings, and I know this is quicksilver and precious and often it's poison. There has always existed a sort of psychic butcher who works the scales of transcendence, who weighs out the bloody cost of true art.” ArtMental IllnessBipolarManic DepressionHypomania Book:Scattershot: My Bipolar Family Source: Scattershot: My Bipolar Family
“I now know for certain that my mind and emotions, my fix on the real and my family's well-being, depend on just a few grams of salt. But treatment's the easy part. Without honesty, without a true family reckoning, that salt's next to worthless.” FamilyMental IllnessTreatmentMedicationBipolarManic DepressionLithium Book:Scattershot: My Bipolar Family Source: Scattershot: My Bipolar Family