[ ] manic sex isn’t really intercourse. It’s dicourse, just another way to ease the insatiable need for contact and communication. In place of words, I simply spoke with my skin.

I’m not manic-just happy. It has been such a long time since I was happy. Please join me on my magic carpet for now.

But instability like mine needs considerable distance to pass for mere quirkiness.

The doctor’s words made me understand what happened to me was a dark, evil, and shameful secret, and by association I too was dark, evil, and shameful. While it may not have been their intention,...

I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been, which is when I have been midly manic. When...

But money spent while manic doesn’t fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you’re given excellent reason to be even more so.

Her parents, she said, has put a pinball machine inside her head when she was five years old. The red balls told her when she should laugh, the blue ones when she should be silent...

In the terms of ‘Mental Illness’ Isn’t stable a place they put horses that wish to run free?

When my mind plays tricks on me I can deal. But when my mind plays tricks on my mind I can not tell what’s real

She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tears like a porcelain angel, about to teeter, fall and break. She never cried because...

A little manic was okay. A little manic paid the bills and got him up in the morning, made him magic when he needed it most.

I mean, that’s at least in part why I ingested chemical waste – it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column...

He’s dead?’ Vera asked. ‘He’s dead? Johnny’s dead?’He covered the mouthpiece. ‘No,’ he said. ‘Not dead.”Not dead! Not dead!’ she cried, and fell on her knees in the phone nook with an audible thud. ‘O...

I am not manic-just happy. It has been such a long time since I was happy. Please join me on my magic carpet for now.