The Bipolar Bounce

All who are satisfied with their present quality of life please do not read beyond this paragraph. Put the book down when you finish this paragraph and be on your blissful way. The author has no intention or desire to rock your house of glass, as time will take care of that. This is a way of life for fully living in the here and now on a daily basis in harmony with the external world. This way of life functions on the truth not on showboat rituals. President Lincoln firmly believed in God's personal supervisions in all aspects of his life. he believed himself to be UNDER GOD'S GUIDANCE. God ran like a thread of gold through all the inner experiences of Lincoln's spiritual life. Lincoln WAS NOT professedly a Christian as he subscribed to no creed and joined no organization of Christian disciples. He recognized an immediate relation between God and himself, in all the actions and passions of his life. A few other notables that were victims of manic depressive symptoms were: Sir Isaac Newton, Beethoven, John Keats, Virignia Woolf, Eugene O'Neill, Leo Tolstoy, Tennessee Williams, Vincent Van Gogh, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Vivien Leigh, Michelangelo, Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens, Vaslov Nijinsky, Ludwig Boltzmann, and on and on... Dedicated to: Isaac Newton, Ludwig Boltzmann, Marie Curie, ALbert Einstein, Niels Bohr the above are five giants among the many giants of the s/he's of our world of the sciences. Two of these giants, Newton and Boltzmann, could well qualify as members of The Bipolar Bounce Society. Of the two, Boltzmann tragically ended his life sooner than it would have been otherwise. A manic-depressive act some believed was the result of his rejection and theridicule he received because of his theorem regarding the second law of thermodynamics. Ludwig Boltzmann was correct. His theories on the equipartition of energy and the second law of thermodynamics were a major leap forward in the annals of physics and as one of the important stepping-stones to our present day Quantum Mechanics. This tragic suicide of years past is a powerful example to this present day for all who think they are at the end of their rope. Do not jump to conclusions, as you could be wrong, for no tie a knot at the end of the rope and hang on for dear life! To do otherwise would end for good the hope that waits the next sunrise. Gloomy day or not the sun alwyas rises for roll call of a new day and you should be there. The sun as always did rise for the roll call of that new day that Ludwig Boltzmann became a giant of science a day that sadly the giant missed. Bi-Polar Disorder Support Groups Many victims of Bi-polar Disorder would benefit from joining support groups if they knew of some so contact on eof the following for meeting information and other details: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 6001 Executive Blvd., RM 8184 Bethesda, MD 20892-9693 Phone: (301) 443-4515 E-mail: nimhinfo@nih.gov website: http: //www.nimh.nih.gov Depression & Bi-Polar Support Alliance (DBSA) 730 North Franklin Street, Suite 501 Chicago, IL 60610-7204 Toll Free 1-800-826-3632 Phone: (312) 642-0049 website: http: //www.dbsalliance.org National Foundation for Depressive Illness, Inc. (NAFDI) P.O. Box 2257 New York, NY 10116 Toll Free 1-800-239-1265 website: http: //www.depression.org