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MEDICALLY INDUCED MANIA: combined with the brain chemistry of falling in love ;oD
Thursday, April 25, 2002, Age 20 I can’t even explain how amazing things are going. I feel so grateful for every opportunity and every amazing best friend and every amazing member of my family and for my education and for my interests and my wonderful Professors and just everything. I have an internship at a…
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FALLING IN LOVE ;0)
Tuesday, February 26, 2002, Age 20 Today Danny was telling me about all the shit he has to get done and how long it’s going to take, etc. and at the end of it all, he said but every time I’m with you I just forget about everything else I have to do, which is…
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INTERNALIZED FAMILIAL SHAME: born this way, and misdiagnosed by the age of 20.
Thursday, December 27, 2001, Age 20 Well, today I started using Paxil, an anti-depressant that hopefully will help me out a little bit in all sorts of ways. I’m kind of excited. I really do hope it helps because I think that is exactly what I need. My father is in an uproar right now…
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PHILOSOPHY: english, for **magic** ;0)
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter One, “Prejudices of Philosophers,” Aphorism No.6, Translated by Helen Zimmern, 1907 (Circa 2007 by Barnes & Noble, Inc.). It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and…
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RAPIDLY CYCLING BIPOLAR MOODS: I won’t be correctly diagnosed for another 6 years.
NOTE: I was mis-medicated under a social worker’s prior, incorrect diagnosis, which caused ongoing, medically-induced mania (a severe medical condition). Tuesday, November 13, 2001, Age 20 I don’t understand how there can be times when you can feel so great about everything and you just feel like you can conquer the world, and then there…