VALERIE ALLARD

How are you?

Scenario: A patient has an appointment with her psychopharmacologist.

Point of View: first-person narrator

Setting: in an apartment

Setting: in the street

bipolar/compositionIdeas/ — I finally leave the apartment.

bipolar/compositionIdeas/ — I'm walking on the street but it's hard to make sense of what I see

bipolar/compositionIdeas/ — I feel cognitively blind.

Setting: in the subway

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Setting: Back in the street

bipolar/compositionIdeas/ — Where am I?

bipolar/compositionIdeas/ — What is in front of me.

bipolar/compositionIdeas/ — All I can see is my mind and feel my body moving below.

bipolar/compositionIdeas/ — My brain feels scratchy.

bipolar/compositionIdeas/ — There are no fixed points.

bipolar/compositionIdeas/ — For an instant, I see a landmark.

Setting: in the psychopharmacologist's office

bipolar/compositionIdeas/ — I sit down and try to bring my mind into the room.

bipolar/compositionIdeas/ — How are you? he asks.

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bipolar/compositionIdeas/ — What does he see when he looks at me?

bipolar/compositionIdeas/ — I try to organize my thoughts.

bipolar/compositionIdeas/ — I am noise but not words.

bipolar/compositionIdeas/ — I am here but no one sees me.

bipolar/compositionIdeas/ — Outloud, all I can manage is "Fine."

bipolar/compositionIdeas/ — I try to imagine what he understands.

bipolar/compositionIdeas/ — How I appear to him.

srcSketches/crows/crowFlyOverhead_1.png — I feel my hope fly away.

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