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Stephen Fry: “Lost, alone and I wanted to take my life”

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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What Is the Point of Manic Manic?

Joan of Arc: Mania is like something being sucked out of your energy set. You feel drained and you're convinced your face has gone white. It's amazing how I found people who've had mental health histories that have not been happy, often have a more extreme difference in their left and right eye. If you look at my left and rightEye, one is rather cold and calculating and one is warmer and friendlier. That's usual with people, I think. Almost everybody I interviewed had an extreme version of that. But when someone's manic, they are just out of control there so embarrassing they would do so. And it frightened me because the power of it was so intense

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