Knowledge Is Marvelous, But Wisdom Is Even

I Think You Have Waves Of Awareness And One Of The Things That I Found With Grief Was Actually - I Was Well Prepared For It By The Cyclicality Of My Manic Depressive Illness Because I Was Used To Things Coming And Going And So Forth.

I Decided Early In Graduate School That I Needed To Do Something About My Moods. It Quickly Came Down To A Choice Between Seeing A Psychiatrist Or Buying A Horse. Since Almost Everyone I Knew Was Seeing A Psychiatrist, And Since I Had An Absolute Belief That I Should Be Able To Handle My Own Problems, I Naturally Bought A Horse.

People Are More Impulsive And They Get Slightly Less Impulsive As They Get Older And The Impulsiveness Interacting With The Depression Is Particularly Devastating And Lethal, Potentially Lethal.

I Had Been Simply Treating Water, Settling On Surviving And Avoiding Pain Rather Than Being Actively Involved In Seeking Out Life.

Everyone Has Good Cause For Suicide, Or At Least It Seems That Way To Those Who Search For It. (74)