Eric: love the nickname. One of the fun things about dating someone with manic depression are the unbelievable swings. If you want to know about some of what your ex-girlfriend was going through these would be two good blogs to start with… Wonderful Thoughts and Patient Anonymous.

Mercurial: thanks… there are time during the now where I would actually describe myself as being frantic. At least on the lower end of the frantic scale anyway. I’m not running around, just kind of paralysed because there are too many things to think about… it’s almost like a low level manic phase, but with Reasons.

Gianna: I’m really, REALLY, hoping my inevitable crying jag doesn’t start in a restaurant. At least it feels inevitable… I’m not even sure how I cry. That’s almost too weird. Like, will I just kind of stoically stand there and let the tears fall, or am I the cryer who makes large inhaling sounds… right now I’m guessing I’ll be more the latter than the former.

Extrememo0: give the meds/treatment a little time, I think you and I are somewhat in the same boat.

Bine: that’s something I do… it’s like the only way I can move is to get angry at the things which have piled on, like someone has been piling stones on my back and either I get crushed or fight back… I can very much relate to that autopilot feeling and numbness.

Dark Entries and Thor, the thing I wrote that turned into a separate post was basically written in response to your comments…