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What a powerful post Heather!

Your post took me back to some poetry/prose I wrote back in 1982 when I was actively swinging through rapid cycling bi-polar (and another decade after that going through the dates on my poetry)
Many times I wrote with rage when I was in the manic phase but I noticed that in the flip to the deep depression that came after a manic phase....my sentiments were the same as you have expressed.
Somewhere in the transition from extreme manic to deep suicidal depression, there was this semi-depressive state which was just 'empty'. I was exhausted, broken and 'quite happy' to be in a place of void. I referred to it as being devoid of emotion.

Thank you for sharing that.

You helped me to put some 'old debris' into perspective.

Betty-Lou Kristy

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