Thanks for mixing it up with humor. We need more laughs to help tolerate the other side.

I have a genetic disease that adversely affects my brain chemistry and causes me to process emotion differently than other people. I'd consider myself mentally ill when I'm manic. I'm not sure there's any other way to describe the horrible state I was in. I'm also mentally stable at times and a million other things. Mental illness is not my only defining trait, but it sticks out more than the others when it happens. I'm busting my *** to stay balanced though. My illness cannot be cured, but I'll fight it with all that I have to control it.