Although I have only been psychotic/manic twice in my life, I want to write about one strange thing that I experienced/noticed. During my second psychosis, I was able to understand the lyrics to songs that I would normally not be able to understand, i.e. discern the words. This is especially in fast moving/paced songs, rap. When I'm on medication and prior to my illness, I am/was not able to understand most/many of the words in many songs.
This just adds to the interesting phenomenon in my previous post that manic people (i.e. from bipolar) are associated with ingeniousness. This is seen in the arts as well as sciences. Examples include Vango as well as many doctors who are bipolar. One psychiatric nurse told me that this is because of the amount of energy that manic/bipolar people have. And indeed, manic people have high energy and a lot of thoughts/ideas.
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