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Sleepy

This was going to be a post about crashing and depression, but I'm sleepy.  I wanted to write some and get out some of the thoughts in my head. Like every week with bipolar disorder, the past few days have been quite interesting. I crashed hard Sunday evening/night.  I remained depressed Monday and most of today.  I went to see my therapist and became very slightly hypomanic and then I went to my friend's house and had dinner. After just relaxing and talking to my friend for a while I came to calmness.  Sweet, wonderful calmness. 

With my calm mind I faced some thoughts that I have not been able to trust.  I'm going to publish this post, so I won't get into those.  Just in case.

Either way it was nice.

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