{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Are you always like this when you're hypomanic?", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/186340291438/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: Are you always like this when you're hypomanic?</div>\n<p>No, there\u2019s a dimension to the episodes I classify on a spectrum of \u201cdirty\u201d to \u201ccrystalline\u201d, and it\u2019s only the more crystalline ones that are that productive, the dirty ones have a lot of energy but poorly focused and directed and they can be kinda frustrating feeling of just general \u201cintensity\u201d that I\u2019m sure makes me a pain to interact with</p><p>On the other hand the more crystalline ones have a risk of going too far, seeing webs of meaning connecting everything to everything and getting megalomaniacal, honestly I think monetizeyourcat got consumed that way after a while, \u201cfound a lunar cult oriented around transformative motherhood\u201d is a pretty classic way to go overboard though lbr</p><p>So I try to keep it close to the redline but not over, just inbounds. Liiiiiiike, I think my Taylor Swift analysis is pretty clever and important, and I\u2019ll back it up, but at the same time I am <a href=\"https://argumate.tumblr.com/post/186339816124/so-if-taylor-swift-is-the-only-person-you\" target=\"_blank\">aware</a> that I\u2019m saying that a female celebrity\u2019s songs and actions have hidden double meanings I can discern that reveal her in-plain-sight if you know what to look for conspiracy to control the world AND how she has a special rapport with me. Sooooo, I try to keep a handle on that.</p><p>The real fuck of a thing is when I\u2019m in high crystalline mode I can reverse-engineer people\u2019s mental state and figure out just the sort of stimulus I need to introduce to essentially hack their personalities and edit them in ways more convenient to me, I try to only use that for good. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s really unique though, I think a lot of classic cult leader types do a lot of operating in crystalline mode, I can tell it\u2019s what some of my hate anon types are trying to do but even where they\u2019re decent at it, I honestly hacked defenses to that in in earlier states</p>"}