The Manic Depressive is a digital journal about living, thinking and feeling too much.
Created as a space to unravel the chaos of the mind, this blog is both a confession and a confrontation — with self, with stigma, and with the world’s discomfort around mental illness. It’s for those navigating the highs that border on delusion and the lows that feel unspeakable. For the ones who feel everything all at once, or nothing at all. Here, you’ll find essays, reflections, and fragments from life not as a clinical case study, but as a raw, lived reality. There is no neat resolution, only the ongoing tension between euphoria and despair, hope and fear, clarity and confusion.
The Manic Depressive is not just about suffering; it’s about survival. It’s about the art of holding yourself together while falling apart. It’s about finding language for the unspeakable, and maybe even humour in the unbearable.
This blog is not medical advice. It’s not always pretty. But it is honest.
If you’ve ever felt like your brain was both your worst enemy and your greatest source of brilliance — welcome. You’re not alone here.
If you would like to get in touch, email me@themanicdepressive.com!