notes for choreographer
(Irina - tone these first two down a little and adapt for D's personality.)
p.28, Surviving Manic Depression, a Manual on Bipolar Disorder for patients, families and providers.
As Kraepelin described it: The patient sings, chatters, dances, romps about, does gymnastics,, beats time, claps his hands, scolds, threatens, and makes a disturbance, throws everything down on the floor, undresses, decorates himself in a wonderful way, screams and screeches, laughs or cries ungovernably, makes faces, assumes theatrical attitudes, recites with wild passionate gestures."
p.30. <<
Most of us who provide care for individuals with severe psychiatric disorders have received letters in which the envelopes are covered with various messages, often written with different colored pens, at odd angles, and with messages on top of rach other. Mania is the only psychiatric diagnosis that can be determined with 99 percent certainty without even openining one's correspondence.
Notes from: "A Brilliant Madness"
p.14
I remember myself in rage and acting very wicked. I had and incredible command of the language at these times, and I was doing alliteration stuff --"horrible, hateful, hideous Harry"-- just spewing it out of me. I had insights I would never have had at any other time, and in the rage I was feeling I didn't edit any of them. Some of them were really vicious.