{"id":9964,"date":"2010-07-31T05:11:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T10:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=9964"},"modified":"2014-02-19T03:01:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T08:01:57","slug":"i-miss-my-sisters-manic-phases-and-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/i-miss-my-sisters-manic-phases-and-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"I miss my sister’s manic phases – and mine"},"content":{"rendered":"

My dad and younger brother were bipolar<\/a> and I’ve had several friends who were, diagnosed and undiagnosed. My good friend Domino <\/a>was diagnosed 4 years ago, something I suspected long before she did.\u00a0 I’ve known her for 30 years, and know her family as well.\u00a0 Her mom was diagnosed years before.\u00a0 Like I wrote in Is Bipolar The Root Of Genius?<\/a> , I find myself missing her manic upswings, her wild ideas, her inspirations and musings.\u00a0 Her hare-brained schemes<\/em>.\u00a0 But while they may have been simply grandiose babblings from a clinically manic state, to my ear they sounded like messages of inspiration.\u00a0 They sparked ideas which often evolved into projects that earned both of us income.\u00a0 When I look back, after Domino was first diagnosed as bi-polar several years ago, and think of all the ideas for projects that never materialized, I still can’t see that as being grandiose<\/a> – one man’s absurd exaggeration is another mans’ actual life.\u00a0 During the same time frame, I think of all the ideas for projects I have left undone.\u00a0 It’s about the same, so you can’t blame it on bi-polar.\u00a0 Part of the fun we have together is chatting about what might be possible to achieve between the two of us.\u00a0 I don’t think of that as grandiose, I think of it as enthused pre-paving.\u00a0 So when she’s quiet and mellow, we don’t do that.\u00a0 I miss it in her and I miss the reaction it brings out in me. So I’ll just have to bring it out of myself and get with friends that bring it out of me.
\nWill you be my friend?
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