Well, spring. The massive, massed, multicolored azaleas all over UD‘s town, Garrett Park, are hallucinogenic.
They are, like UD lately, manic.
UD‘s baseline affect is happy. Add exercise and healthy eating and you get borderline hebephrenia.
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Bouncing off the walls has its advantages. It’s the last week of class, a crazy time, and UD finds she’s got more than enough energy for it. University committees, exams, independent studies, office hours, honors theses – she’s up for it. Her endorphins make all things possible.
Yet they also, undeniably, make her a little nuts. She’s done an EXCESS WELL-BEING Google search and gotten nowhere…
Patient presents with striking amor vitae. Seasonal Affective Disorder diagnosis based upon patient’s compulsive rendition of When It’s Springtime in the Rockies.
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UD giggles while lecturing on The Waste Land. “‘April is the cruelest month.’ Are you kidding?”
April 24th, 2012 at 9:17PM
Whoa back, UD! Borderline hebephrenia is a long way from manic. If you go overboard with such imagery they will throw the DSM at you. LOL.
April 25th, 2012 at 4:14AM
adam: I know it’s not quite right. For some reason, I love the word hebephrenia – using it is style over substance.
On the other hand (I did check), some hebephrenics are very silly and talk and giggle endlessly.
April 25th, 2012 at 6:40AM
Ever read Philip Dick’s ‘Clans of the Alphane Moon’? The premise is that a colonized alien world is being used as a psychiatric institution, and the inmates have self-segregated into ‘ethnic’ groups defined by their specific psychopathology. So, there’s the ‘Paranoid’ clan , the ‘Polymorphous’ village, the ‘Catatonic’ town, etc. It’s how I learned, long ago, about the different official flavors of schizophrenia.
April 25th, 2012 at 7:10AM
Hebephrenic Hamlet?
April 25th, 2012 at 9:04AM
“Silly grinning and talking to oneself distinguish the hebephrenic.”