the blessing

i knew great success when i was hypomanic,

once upon a time i was moving by myself to another province where i knew no one, to follow a dream,
once upon a time i was overcoming my fear of blood & was successfully performing minor elective surgery for the first time,
once upon a time i was taking two degree programs simultaneously while working 12 hour shifts in a place i loved,
once upon a time i was preforming 45 minute presentations for college & university classes being told they were the best “the program has ever seen”,
once upon a time i was creating my own art business from scratch, selling to celebrities, gracing magazines, getting featured in newspapers & making $20 grand in one month.
for a while when i was 26 i made on average $6 grand a day, but i was hypomanic so i spent it all just as fast
and then my world fell apart.

“There is anecdotal evidence for a relationship between creativity and psychosis … Psychotic individuals are said to display a capacity to see the world in a novel and original way, literally, to see things that others cannot”

– wikipedia, creativity & bipolarity

&, if nothing else, we bipolars are in good company