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The Sense of Relief I Feel in the Psych Ward Waiting Room as a Break From the Neurotypical World
There is something romantic about the emergency psych ward waiting room. That characterization feels impolite, as well as a bit hackneyed in its cartoonish bipolarity. One thing I feel about being bipolar, though, is that some of the stereotypes about us aren’t exactly wholly inaccurate, and that’s OK. I have never been one to shy away from sounding like a pre-New Girl Zooey Deschanel character. The moods on the manic spectrum are often described as manufacturing a more colorful, poetic world for the manic person, but I feel it is important to point out that this landscape is no more a mirage than is the gray, prosaic landscape that depression renders with its own, glacial artistry. The world truly is colorful and poetic, at least to the same extent that it is not.