Probably most of us visit one or more of our potential bi-polar extremes, to some extent or another, at various points in our lives...
Our 'visit' here may not necessarily be dysfunctional...
Call it a 'vacation'...or a form of 'compensation' against an already existing, underlying dysfunctional, humanistic-existential, problem...the problem of being real, of being alive...of having a pulse...
The problem of living the life of a lie...
Of living the life of a Stranger...
Is the mind,
The body,
The soul,
Dead yet?
Call 'bi-polar disorder'...
Or 'manic-depression'...
At least sometimes...
The psychological equivalent...
Of an emergency form of 'bi-pass open heart surgery'...
A race against time...
To find a living, throbbing, pulse...
An admittedly, usually, self-destructive....
Wild attempt...
To find a better life equilibrium...
A better psychological, homeostatic...
Balance....
Unfound...
The bi-polar extremist...
Keeps slamming his or her head...
Against each opposite goal post...
And can't find 'the humanistic-existential net' in the middle...
Otherwise,
The strategy...
Would not need to be,
Endlessly repeated...
--dgb, April 30th, 2010
-- David Gordon Bain
-- Dialectic Gap-Bridging Negotiations...
-- Between Mania and Depression...
-- Are Still in Process...
