Word: manic
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...through the filter of his own somber disposition, to be sure, but with a conviction that the most direct route into the heart of things was by way of what were supposed to be the margins. He liked to be anyplace he could find people who were forlorn, pensive, manic or needy. Exaltation attracted him too. What other word to apply to the mood of that intense man in white praying at the water's edge in Mississippi River, Baton Rouge, Louisiana? And everywhere, he paused in wonder at big, glowing jukeboxes dispensing their industrial light and magic into...
...adult form of the disorder. There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears. One of the ways that manifested in my life was in cutting, and not being able to stop cutting...
...what you'd call an accidental suicide attempt. Many suicides are accidental. There's a death wish, but it's fairly vague. It's different than actually trying to die. In that case, I was so manic that I was unaware that there would be consequences. That's one of the things about manic impulsivity - you can't associate your acts with the consequences. You think that when you're spending thousands of dollars, you will not go broke. You think that when you're driving 100 miles an hour, you're going a perfectly reasonable rate. You think that...
...looked up a psychiatrist in the phone book. I like his name. His name was Dr. Beedle. So I gave him a call, got an appointment and went in. I happened to be fairly manic at the time. And he was very funny. He just let me talk and talk and talk and talk and talk, until he finally said to me, "Has anyone ever mentioned the word 'mania' to you?" And I'm like, "Well, I've heard the word. What are you talking about?" He got me to describe the mood swings, which had never really been discussed...
Tony is as smart, wily and manic as ever, but now he's a man with a mission: to dismantle his own company. Which doesn't thrill his longtime, avuncular, head-shaved partner, Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges). No matter: Tony has never taken "Don't" for an answer. Like a geek in a Silicon Valley garage, a knight smithing his own armor, Tony retreats to his workroom to build himself a new casing. And he won't make Dr. Frankenstein's mistake of using shoddy materials. This will be no stitched-together, run-amok creature. It can't be Tony...