I want to poke at one thing you said, because it’s relevant to how I see the article. :) > He must have absurd anxiety… If the author of the article had said

I want to poke at one thing you said, because it’s relevant to how I see the article. :) > He must have absurd anxiety… If the author of the article had said this, I would read it as : “The only way I imagine behaving like he does is to have absurd anxiety.” I think this is the trap the article falls into. Many times we lack the information or frame of reference to understand the motivations of other people. When that happens, we tend to use our own experience and motivations instead. Something I think about a lot when reading these articles because one of the “benefits” of being bipolar is having a very large frame of reference in regards to patterns of thought and emotional extremes.