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I would say I am the hard-to-quantify "a little crazy" Crompsin mentioned--the cute, harmless kind.
I have been diagnosed with clinical depression, but I manage it with established beneficial routines, good habits, and exercise.
I've seen real crazy. I have a friend with schizophrenia and a family member has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Even years later, some of my experiences with that are still too raw to post about in a forum. I've only recently begun to even talk about it.
For me, I've developed internal controls to the point that it has become a choice. Something happens and I can choose to react as my depressive self would, or I can choose to react how my healthy self would. I am still lazy sometimes and choose the former, but I am working towards choosing the latter all of the time.
Did any of that make sense?
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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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