“I had my first hypomanic episode at 17. I had just moved away from my hometown to study to become a violinist, and just a few weeks into the semester I found myself on the most extreme and inexplicable high I had every experienced.
I was sleep deprived, irritable, and convinced I was superior to everyone around me in the music department – students and teachers alike.
As I became increasingly erratic, people’s opinion of me devolved, so by the time my hypomania came to an end I was widely disliked by everyone in my network.
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