[Warning, explanation: this is the most personal blog post I've written so far, so if being close to people makes you uncomfortable, you can skip this. But it's medically related, technically]:
Psychiatry Class. 9 AM. Dr. S is giving an cursory
lecture on various mental conditions. He gets to mania. He starts listing off
characteristics. An entire row of students in my lecture hall, turn around to
stare at me.
Am I manic? Perchance.
Like many mental conditions, you have to have a certain
number of listed signs/symptoms in the DSM to be able to classify yourself as
anything. But I do have some symptoms
of mania:
