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While mania is destructive, hypomania is (sometimes) thought to be very useful
Lots of mental disorders are double-edged swords like this: schizophrenia can cause these psychotic breaks, but also brilliance (the little girl in the title and also John Nash); autism can paralyze a person but can also create savants
That gives insight into why mental illnesses are so pervasive and hard to treat
If someone could invent a medication that kept me constantly hypomanic, without spiraling up or crashing back down .... man, I would pay good money for that. Hypomanic is the only time I feel like "me", as I think of and identify myself.
There is actually a theory out there that many very successful people are just mildly hypomanic at all times .... there's a book on it called They Hypomanic Edge ... (sorry for the ugly link!)
http://www.amazon.com/Hypomanic-Edge-Between-Craziness-Success/dp/0743243455/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370123939&sr=1-1&keywords=hypomanic+edge
I love your perspective on this. Similarly, a while back someone did a lot of research on hypomania and discovered a likely connection between it and entrepreneurship:
https://www.amazon.com/Hypomanic-Edge-Between-Craziness-Success/dp/0743243455
tl;dr The incidence of mania in a population was found to be proportional to the fraction of immigrants and their descendants in that population, and the countries of with the highest rates of mania also had the highest rates of entrepreneurship.
Hypomanic? Start a company. BPD? Not sure yet.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0619/037.html
https://www.amazon.com/Hypomanic-Edge-Between-Craziness-Success/dp/0743243455
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