I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been, which is when I have been midly manic. When I am my present normal self, I am far removed from when I have been my liveliest, most productive, most intense, most outgoing and effervescent. In sort, for myself, I am a hard act to follow. ✨ Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, p.59, Pan Macmillan
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