Word: bipolarity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...walking, running, and [you think] they're all following you and they're all trying to hurt you. From that came the terrible mania, when I would be so happy that I just couldn't see straight, I couldn't do anything. For six months after my diagnosis of bipolar, I literally could not read, write or talk. When I would attempt to read the words would stumble off the page. I would try to write, my hands would shake violently. I'd try to talk, and I'd stutter. Before that? I was Mr. Happy Go Lucky...
...depressives. I'm adopted. In my junior year of high school, when I was 16 years old, my parents filed for divorce at the same time that I was taken off medication for epilepsy. That same pill acts as a mood stabilizer, but we didn't know I had bipolar [disorder] at that point, and I'd been on it since...
...said, I can't do this anymore. I was tired, I was tired of fighting the disease, I was tired of myself, I was tired of looking at myself in the mirror. I hated myself. It was that simple. I was angry with the world, I was angry with bipolar, I was angry with my parents for making me take these pills...
Back in 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville prophesized a bipolar future with Russia and the United States as opposed master puppeteers. The duel of course, is passé today. Russia is technically a democracy, a supporter of free markets which strives to join the World Trade Organization, and the host of the G8 summit this July in St. Petersburg. Especially in this context, the West must remember that nothing has really changed since the times of either Peter the Great or Lenin: Russia cares about its pride, not about global security. Amidst the rhetorical battle on the prospects of an American...
...with the difficult task of portraying a character both pathetic and despicable, Malin succeeds at making the audience empathize with a monster. Her performance at times appears to lack focus in its histrionics, but Malin demonstrates her substantial talent through her ability to show the mother’s bipolar nature, switching from a simpering girl to a snappish hag with ease.Shafrin gives one of the strongest performances of the show as the bitter, haunted son, Frederick. Although Frederick is the agent for much of “Pelican’s” exposition, Shafrin also brings a much...