Bipolar Mania Disorder

"Bipolar disorder is a condition in which people experience intermittent abnormally elevated (manic or hypomanic) and, in many cases, abnormally depressed states for periods of time in a way that interferes with functioning." - Check Wiki link here.

So I have opened up to my husband some years ago that I may have bipolar disorder and just tonight, that topic just reappeared out of the blue. It got me thinking. 

I have always suspected that I have this disorder. If you can browse through my blog, there are moments of "elevation" but most of the time, the "episodes" do not go away for a consistently longer period of time. I was trying to also revisit an old blog and most of the content has been nothing but eeyoric (the term I use in reference to Eeyore of Winnie the Pooh cartoons who has a dark cloud looming over his head).

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The Dingbat Who Feels - A Repost from March 2006

"There's something beautiful in the falling grace of a falling star." - Louise Sybing

I loved falling stars. When I was young, I used to sit outside our house on my very small chair in the early hours of the evening. Back in the province, six o'clock is like midnight. Every window or door is closed -- everyone propped inside the house, watching telenovelas or something. My sister used to play paper dolls which I drew and cut for her, with their tiny paper dresses. Unfortunately I was only good in making them yet, I least enjoyed them.

I was not the usual girl in the block. I used to go around the town in my bike. My cousins (of my age) were all boys and so, I was the boyish type. I am either found biking around or at the top of our roof and climbing our datiles tree. I remember my lola always bringing this really slender stick which she waves at me all the time...

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