I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.
Ellen ForneyThe way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.
Ellen ForneyA sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes build to a sensation like an electrical short - a burst of light, a melting, or dissipating - and I'd get a metallic taste in my mouth, like when you lick a battery.
Ellen Forney