Hello All,

Well, to cut right to the chase: I have spent the last five days in the Holly Hills psyc. rehabilitation center being diagnosed and treated for rapid-cycle bipolar disorder with severe manic psychosis (anyone that interested can look it up on the web). In layman’s terms, I’ve been progressively more and more messed up over the last year (quitting sports, staying up for days at a time, spending a week on my couch, lighting cars on fire, etc.). Ok, the last one was a joke, hopefully, but the point is I have had a problem and just figured out how to treat it.

Now, this is not a “feel bad for poor me� email; it’s a feel good for me email. I haven’t felt this “normal� in a long time. I feel really good. I just wanted to let all my friends know, especially those I may have hurt while playing the denial game; I did not intentionally blow you off or worse. I know I did some crazy things, many of which I don’t remember because I was misdiagnosed the first time and given the wrong medication. (Did you know that certain meds. combined with alcohol and days without sleep can make a person blackout, lose all control over their impulses, and buy hundreds of dollars of merchandise from QVC? Well, now you do.) And for all my friends and family that have been worried about me, things are really going great now.

I’m graduating on time, with a decent GPA even, I’m in the hunt for a job, I have some good part time stuff to hold me over until I find something permanent, I don’t think people are out to get me anymore, all-in-all, life is peachy. I want to thank everyone that stood by me through all this and who kicked me in the ass and made me realize there was a malfunction. I can only be mushy for so long before I start getting all teary, and nauseous, so I’ll cut this thing off. My cell is still the same and you can reach me at either email address.