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i guess mania is the brain's way of giving you a chance to break out of your depressive spiral. “you have temporarily forgotten all the stuff that's hanging over your head normally, also you feel like a million dollars and have lots of energy and time: whatcha gonna do with it?”
like one of those “if you got a million dollars tomorrow, what would you do with it” thought experiments
but it's like a loan that your future self will have to pay off, so you have to spend it wisely, even if of course its disinhibiting effects make it easy to not do so. i wonder if manic-depressive cycles follow similar patterns to impulsive behaviour problems hmm hmm