It’s very clear from your comments to the posts in my series on “Up” that euphoria is an infrequent flyer at best. Way more common, it seems, are our road rage states, an intense feeling of psychic distress. It’s as if we want to grab the world by the throat. These are our dysphoric manias and hypomanias, bipolar’s dirty dark secret.
In a comment to my first post, Donna added a new dimension. Not dysphoric. More like “dark.” As she describes her hypomanias:
Admittedly, I was far...
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