Depression, Mania

Beginning where I left off with my last post, we can thus see that depression , or at least some forms, occurs when there is a disruption of this and/or cycle.  Mental health requires a certain connection with the outside world, which is made possible by the "or", getting outside one's self, to make a connection with other people and other possibilities, i.e. the "and".  When you can't get outside yourself or connect with other people, things etc., self absorption and depression occurs.  So depression occurs when the first link of the  and/or progression is severed.   With mania, it is easy to see how the major disruption occurs at the second link.  The self may get outside itself, but it can't form a sufficient connection to any people, or possibilities of being, on the outside world, and jumps from possibility to possibility. However, the "or"'s connection to the self is also damaged.  We have seen, in the post "Deities" how the "and" follows the "or" when the "or" attempts to escape it.  In mania, the "and" connecting the "or" to the self, has difficulty following the "or" or keeping it connected to the self.  Thus, we have a completely unmoored "or", neither connected to the world, or the possibilities of being in the world or possible courses of action, nor connected to the self.