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When psychiatric stability feels like spiritual death

My manic episode last year was the most creative and alive I have ever felt, and now on mood stabilizers I feel safe but empty, like I traded my soul for sanity.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You are mourning the loss of dangerous but transcendent states of consciousness.

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