I used to embrace my manic episodes – until a therapist’s advice set me straight, and out on a butterfly hunt | Claire Jackson

The highs were preferable to the depressive lows, but I needed balance, not extremes. Perhaps a return to a childhood passion could help‘Please sit down,” I begged my neighbour, who was leaning across the car gearstick, arm stretched around my headrest. My pleas for him to fasten his seatbelt were futile. Now he was jigging about, gesticulating wildly as he revealed his latest plans.He had told me before about the script he was writing for Gary Oldman. I hadn’t thought too much of it, then – all writers have to be a bit grandiose, I had reasoned, otherwise they wouldn’t achieve anything. But now he was telling me he was inventing a flying machine, from which he would fall – and I quote – “like a sycamore seed”. “You very much won’t,” my partner muttered. “What goes up, must come down.”Claire Jackson is a journalist who writes about classical music, art and animals Continue reading...

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