A Manic Depressive’s Dream

With a Nightmare Chaser

Erik Blackwell
6 min readJan 19, 2023

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by Author via DALL-E

If only I could stay in a hypomanic state for all of my days. God, what a life that would be. Bursting at the seams with creativity, full of grand ideas and new understandings, with boundless energy and enthusiasm for whatever I’m doing, or for whatever I’m about to start. When I’m hypomanic, the world is my oyster, and there is nothing I can’t do. There is nothing that I can’t…

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Erik Blackwell

I write mostly about my experience with bipolar disorder, and my hope is that it helps someone. You’re in good company, and you are not alone.