But at the same time, so many Americans share that recurrent, manic thought expressed by Willy Loman at the outset of Death of a Salesman, "I'm tired to the death".
At this stage of the series, Carrie is off her lithium, she's symptomatic (manic, specifically: obsessive thoughts, inflated sense of self, irrationality, heightened sex drive, increased alcohol intake), and she's about to come face to face with the consequences of last season's "bipolar -influenced decision-making, through the investigation.
Seized with manic exhilaration, my conscious thoughts fixed on the TV critic of USA Today as I shouted to myself, "He'll be sorry!" My actor's ego can also make me stupidly pleased with myself.
Eagleton's records also contained references to suicidal thoughts and manic depression.
They use alcohol or other tranquilizers to stop racing thoughts during manic episodes.
Your partner has just seen Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive and has some thoughts about bipolar.
It takes every ounce of strength for Pat to go through a day, which is accompanied with an episode, mood swings, a manic high or a stream of thoughts about his ex-wife.
On stage, he's an ever-changing, hard-to-contain force of nature, with his manic physicality mirroring his seemingly uncontrolled thought patterns.
He "used the freely associating thought processes of his manic states to generate the zany humour and the wildly ridiculous ideas that were the hallmark of his depression".
The way Schumann's music flits from idea to idea in that suite of short pieces, Dr. Kogan argues, is an exteriorization of the disorganized and illogical thought processes that typify manic episodes.
