Flow State

Or as the bible of psychiatry likes to call it - Manic Episodes. This bible is called the DSM and it used to classify being gay or transgender as a mental health issue. I hope one day that there might be a more nuanced understanding of what mental health professionals call ‘manic episodes’, which for me are part of ordinary mental states.

For me flow state is an enjoyable state. It’s like driving a car very fast - I can do things other people cannot in the state so it doesn’t bother me.

I get some of my best creative ideas in this state which is made me rich so it’s hard for me to see this as a bad thing.

I’ve been poor and I’ve been rich and being rich is better!

See Manic 'symptoms' for Eliot