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marcuslandseer


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Posted Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 11:47pm Post subject: The loss of manic depression?
When I saw various people talking about manic depression on Stephen's programmes what they described sounded exactly like two years of my life - about the ages 17-19. After that I started to lose the mania, and with it my creativity (I hated the word 'creativity' at the time but now it is convenient to refer to whatever that state is as 'being creative.') I see it now as a thing that I lost, for which I mourn. I drew better and painted better than anytime since, now I don't paint or draw at all. I learnt musical instruments and played them with more sensitivity than at any time since. I was deeply in love. I wouldn't sleep all night as my brain would be arranging painted colours in my imagination. I don't think I was well though, and was certainly desperately unhappy. But I was properly alive.

Has anyone else been manic and lost it?

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Maniac


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Posted Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 11:53pm Post subject: The loss of manic depression?
My mania is minimal - if indeed it is mania at all.
Welcome to the forum. Hope you get some answers.

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