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Writing and Bipolar Disorder

I know this blog has been re-purposed several times.  Given the non existent traffic to the page, I'm not too worried about it.  I recently found out that I am Bipolar.  I have actually been Bipolar for as long as I can remember, but was only recently diagnosed.  Everyone I have told about it has said the same thing, "Huh, that makes so much sense!"  In some ways it is comforting to know what has been in my head my entire life.  There are still some things that make almost no sense.

I'm a little scattered tonight, so this blog post probably won't flow in the best manner.  I wanted to spend some time writing about what Bipolar disorder feels like to me, but that will take more concentration than I have tonight.  Instead, the second point of this blog post was to introduce my writing.  I had a very intense and wonderful conversation with a good friend about writing and literature.  This reminded me that in the past a wrote A LOT.  I dug through my storage containers and found some of my old notebooks.  What I discovered was that I actually had some decent writings.  I'm going to use this blog to catalog and hopefully improve upon my work with potential.  Without further ado, I am going to inundate my own blog with postings!
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