You know, the bipolar stuff wasn't really whimsical enough, but this is definitely in that Manic Pixie Delirium of the Endless...
You know, the bipolar stuff wasn’t really whimsical enough, but this is definitely in that Manic Pixie Delirium of the Endless sweet spot of functional but definitely not sane
i have reached the point where i want to see an outside opinion because this sort of rebirth thing has a wide range from “what? no nothing is different about him. he said what?” to “*smile with sad eyes*”
If I go permanently crazy I’m more likely to be some Rasputin-style mad mystic than the guy having arguments with the air in the warehouse district, and you can still do things with that.
I can basically still format and write my thoughts into a paragraph of text like that by muscle memory, for example.
Also like, @ethnianmandarin, the friend who’s actually experienced this full-force is a fellow Former Gifted Kid Thinking Her Way Through Mental Illness so I’m not sure if you’d count that as a useful input for your purposes anyway.