Bipolar disorder tends not to come equipped with a warning or any sort of proper arrival. Instead, the disorder has a tendency to arrive obnoxiously, like a weather application that tells you it’s sunny and suddenly decides to announce hurricane warnings before casually telling you to take your sunglasses again; all prior to breakfast. If brains had user manuals, this brain would include tiny print and missing pages, as well as be a little coffee stained.
To compound the confusion, people tend to think of emotional states as neat, compact boxes (e.g, happy, sad, tired, mildly annoyed with slow walkers). …
