One thing that I think is hard to understand unless you can experience it in real life is what I call the Siren Call of Mania. It’s a voice, screaming in your ear, to follow every crazy automatic thought that moves through your brain. The double whammy is that your thoughts race at the speed of light. The combination of the two make it very hard to resist… I’m not always successful…

Best weapon against this double whammy is mindfulness. If you can be mindful of what’s going on, that your brain is on a rampage to get you in trouble, then you have a chance to sneak in an intervention, i.e., a thought counter acting what the Siren is screaming about. Feel I’m getting the intervention in about 95% of the time. I can live with the 5%….