My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I was Superman.

In the celebration in the end zone I said, 'Superman, you can do it all. He can do a lot of things. Obviously, he had a big game today.

The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years

Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts.

My eating habits are the only behaviour of mine that are still manic. I can't walk by a restaurant, a bakery, an ice-cream store or a candy store without making a purchase; the amount of calories I take in today are at least five times as many as I took before starting on all of this medication.