Mental Health Update

No real point in hiding Biplor Disorder.

As I’ve made clear elsewhere, I have Bipolar Disorder, also called Manic Depressive illness. The condition was diagnosed when I was twenty-six. (Most likely, the onset of symptoms came nine years earlier.) I have never attempted to hide the disorder from friends and work associates and I have been “out of the closet” — in the sense aknowledging it to whoever stumbles upon my blog(s) — for about a year. The candor is a little uncomfortable at times but I’d feel craven if I did anything else. “If,” I’ve written, “a tenured professor cannot summon the modest courage required [to be upfront about having Bipolar Disorder], then I don’t know who could reasonably be asked.”

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