As an aside to the main article, Stephen mentions that he is frequently inundated with requests for help and or diagnosis from people suffering various forms of mental health disorder, he doesn’t mention how many, but with over 2 million followers it must be a nightmare figure. However many it is, these requests are a burden to him and serve only to remind him of his own condition, a condition which he is trying to prevent from taking control of his life.

In reading Stephen’s article, I once again found someone else to be far better able to articulate something that troubles me than I ever could myself. I have had to stop following and friending various people on social network sites not because they have said or done anything wrong (and who am I to judge anyway?) but because their posts are a constant reminder of the dark side of manic depression, a dark side that I am trying to forget, or at least not recall every minute of the day. But what I hadn’t thought much about, was how the people following me might be thinking about my posts. So, from now on, no negative posts on social networks, I will reserve them for this new category called Cyclothymia, on this, my own web site. You have been warned.