Posted: 2008

Watch This Space

In much of the first half of 2008, I was travelling into the city every day and consequently coming into contact with a large number of people who passed on minor illnesses to me. I was consistently having digestive problems which impaired my lithium absorption.

I had been gradually reducing my olanzapine dose and had gotten it down to 1.25mg — which I now understand to be subtherapeutic — while still retaining a stable sleep wake cycle. The physical load of this lifestyle meant, in the short term, that I was still sleeping every night.

High stimulation + physical illness + very little medication in my system. Yep, this was my last (as of 2026) hypomania.