I had a bit of a mixed episode over the winter break. It lasted about three weeks and I’m a bit ashamed to admit that I haven’t done much work since it began. It started as an effort to wean myself off my medication so that I can do a bit of reading, but the episode quickly put an end to those plans and I started my medications back up. The bipolar medication I’m on is evidently quite intellectually debilitating but, as I’ve discovered over the past decade, necessary for my mental stability.
It’s one of those damned if you do and damned if you don’t things. I don’t really know what to think about that. I suppose one day I will wean myself off the medication completely, but I don’t know when that day is. I suppose I will need to be in a stable financial situation first before I do anything of that sorts. It does come with some risk though.
The Ivory Tower 
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