The mood; it just swings back and forth.
He knows what it is, knows that there is an understanding of it. He is told that it is far more common than you might think. This doesn’t help. He experiences heightened feelings of abundant energy, he is bursting with creativity, riding on a cloud of euphoria. Then, he is falling into a deep low of agitation and anxiety, withdrawn and sullen, worthless and unable to cope. He is capable of absolutely anything. He finds everything a chore. He is invincible. He is worthless. Happy. Sad. Happy. Sad. Sometimes he doesn’t notice, doesn’t see the shift; doesn’t feel the swing from the high to the low and back again. Surely, he thinks, every one of us must be just a little bit bipolar, although the experts say no.
He only knows that the pendulum swings.
More so for some, less for others.
Go figure…