Do you ever just feel crazy?

[Magpie]

I have read a few times what I wrote in this thread the other night and I wish that I had not written it. I have a vague recollection of writing it, but I don't know why. Swept away on some euphoric trip? It makes no sense to me and it has played on my mind ever since.
In some ways I suppose it did answer the question that this thread asks, but not in a useful way, more in the way of what it represented as a whole, which was complete gibberish.
So I am sorry and I have set up a better safety mechanism that asks me to think the next time before I click on the 'post reply' icon.

[rowens]

There's nothing shameful about speaking in the moment. Well, there is. But everyone does it. So it shouldn't be so shameful.

If you don't like what you said, you can always disagree with yourself. The best way to learn is from yourself. At least I feel that way.

I know that I've said completely insane things to women that have cost me friendships and relationships; the pain of which I've never got over. But I don't regret that I said what I said, or felt what I said leading me to saying it.

People aren't very understandable, that's a fact. And we are sometimes even less understandable with ourselves. We think we should know better.

But our conscious, intelligent minds are so little, compared to what we are, and what we are in our world, and what our world is.

So I see nothing shameful about what you wrote. Nothing wrong in feeling the need to say what you said.

The world is not intelligent. But we are, sometimes. And that will never stop being a challenge. And a motivating challenge, I think.

[Lizzie]

Like batshit manic insane? How do you cope?

Write and write and write and write some more. 

There's a well established link between bipolarity and creativity. It's a great read. https://www.amazon.com/Touched-Fire-Mani...068483183X

Chopin said that he composed because it quieted the demons. His etudes are transporting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILtCnjmkR2E&t=2104s