I used to romanticize my mania when I was going through it, thinking it made me more likeable and creative and successful. And those things may or may not be true, idk, it isn’t always clear to me. 

But now someone close to me is dangerously manic and it is shattering my previous conception of mania as something good. Mania can be dangerous, destructive, weird and off-putting. 

I don’t know where I’m going with this. I just thought I’d share my thoughts.