I'm betting that the answer is "yes" — and that if you eat out regularly in New York, you've noticed a different reception, an altered mood: extreme solicitousness tinged with outright desperation.
Perhaps it has something to do with their flickering changes of mood – extreme caution, then bold display, skulking in the shadows, then splashing on the surface of the river, sometimes leaping clear of the water – their great speed, their extraordinary beauty, their ability to disappear then flash back into sight, their remarkable range of colour and pattern and shape.
affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (extreme changes in mood typically lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days).
Bipolar disorder is a chronic disease characterised by periods of mania or hypomania (episodes of elevated moods, extreme irritability, decreased sleep and increased energy), depression (overwhelming feelings of sadness, anhedonia, suicidal thoughts) or a combination of both (mixed states).
Bipolar disorder is a chronic disease characterized by periods of mania or hypomania (episodes of elevated moods, extreme irritability, decreased sleep, and increased energy), depression (overwhelming feelings of sadness, anhedonia, suicidal thoughts) or a combination of both (named as mixed state).
A mood so extreme surely had to result in a strong reaction.
For the next half-hour, Johnson — prone to fits of volatility, jarring mood swings, extreme periods of silence — will say almost nothing.
The vocals of Mr. Irvine, the ensemble's most outgoing musician, and of Mr. O'Beirne, maintained a mood of extreme understatement gently tinged with whimsy and wistfulness.
Until that status is made explicit, he told me, there is going to be a mood of extreme caution among Joyce scholars.
