THE FUSE

I’ve lived with bipolar disorder all my life, so I feel I can speak with some authority on mania. Mania is a great teacher, because its lessons are often very dramatic. You’d think they’d therefore stick in your head, and never need repeating. Unfortunately, that’s rarely the case—when the next manic episode hits, you forget all the hard-won wisdom of the past because you’re so much smarter, more insightful, more incandescent now.