When I get together with my friends who have bipolar disorder, we naturally talk about how rotten this illness is and how meds work but have side effects and the sleep issues are horrible, etc.<\/p>\n
But we ALWAYS tell our mania stories. Here are a few great ones: (These are often the behaivors that lead to a diagnosis.)<\/p>\n
I was really manic one night and was out drinking (of course) and couldn’t find my lipstick. I went into the bar’s bathroom and outlined my lips with a red Sharpie pen!<\/p>\n
I thought I was going to be a model, so I flew to Japan using my college savings and went straight to a modeling agency in the Harajuku section of Tokyo. I got a job that week. I thought I was beautiful and I guess that I had so much confidence that I came across gorgeous on camera!<\/p>\n
I left my parnter, got on a train from Seattle to L.A, got a China visa, got on a plane, went to Beijing, asked a taxi driver to take me to a Chinese school. I learned to speak darn good Mandarin Chinese in four weeks. I basically had a photographic memory. (For those of you who have heard me speak, you will know this is a true Julie story!)<\/p>\n
Hey, we have to laugh at something! Laughing at our manic behaviors is pretty fun sometimes.<\/p>\n
julie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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