In a manic episode at my New York apartment, I rose from my bed, literally howling at the moon, convinced I was the president and Batman, which is actually a high-potential combination, if you think about it.
After a particularly difficult period living with Paul Gauguin, he suffered an attack of acute mania, culminating in hallucinations and hearing voices, which led to him cutting off his own ear.
And there's this sense of needing to, for Kendall, there's this sort of airborne quality to this last season of this almost manic need to stay above the pain.
Every minute of every day presents us with untold options for filling our minds with the mania, exploits, disasters, furies, reversals, triumphs, insanity and cataclysms of complete strangers around our benighted planet.
Hook was fighting now without hope. That passionate breast no longer asked for life; but for one boon it craved: to see Peter show bad form before it was cold forever.
And while there are a few slightly different subtypes of bipolar disorder, it can cause someone's mood to fluctuate between depression and euphoric mania.