"If things seem to be going well, they're already going badly": the atrocious wisdom of bipolar disorder, by Emmanuel Carrère
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Writer Emmanuel Carrère. DORIAN PROST FOR "LE NOUVEL OBS"
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Story The author of "Yoga," who himself suffers from bipolar disorder, read with great interest and emotion Philippa Motte's account of her illness in "Et c'est moi qu'on enferme."
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1. Bipolar coat of armsI live, I die; I burn and drown; I am extremely hot while enduring cold: Life is both too soft and too hard for me.
I have great troubles mixed with joy.
Suddenly I laugh and I cry,And in pleasure I endure many a torment of grief;My good departs, and it lasts forever;
All at once I dry up and turn green.
So Love inconstantly leads me;And, when I think I have more pain,
Without thinking about it, I find myself out of trouble.
Then, when…
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