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affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)
Randi Kreger • Stop Walking on Eggshells
This polarization of two clinical states flies in the face of everything that we know about the cauldronous, fluctuating nature of manic-depressive illness; it ignores the question of whether mania is, ultimately, simply an extreme form of depression; and it minimizes the importance of mixed manic-and-depressive states, conditions that are common,
... See moreKay Redfield Jamison • An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Confronted with this tally, my mind balked and retreated into a weird, almost robotic state of detachment. I felt emotionally anesthetized yet hyperaware, as if I had fled into a bunker deep inside my skull and was peering out at the wreckage around me through a narrow, armored slit.
Jon Krakauer • Into Thin Air
“On those nights when Carter could not sleep she lay perfectly still, her eyes closed, and waited for the moment when Carter would begin banging the drawers, slamming doors, throwing a magazine across the bed where she lay.”
“You aren’t waking me up,” she would say then. “I’m not asleep.”
“Well go to sleep, cunt. Go to sleep. Die. Fucking vegetable.”
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