Since I was about fifteen years old, I knew something was different. Not in the way all fifteen year olds feel different, but in a way that made me feel inhuman. I would do anything I could to make people like me. I felt any possible slight so strongly, it crippled me. [...]
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Dealing with Mental Illness
October 1st, 2009 4 Comments
The intense explosion of brilliant-seeming ideas, the ability to pursue wildly divergent ideas at blazing speeds and the sublime self-confidence that accompanies mania can often seem worth the depression which inevitably follows. But, I can tell you, without hesitation, that no amount of creativity and wonderful self-empowerment is worth the years you spend on the [...]
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