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All right. How many of you were worried about me yesterday? Because the internet seems to think I was having a meltdown. I was contacted by some people who care to say, are you okay, everything okay? And how many other people were having the same experience? Did anybody see me interacting on Twitter and say something's wrong here? All right. No, there was something going on. So if you thought it was a meltdown, that wasn't exactly what was happening, but it looked like it. So let me tell you what was really happening behind the scenes.

Every year, a few times a year, several times a year, maybe four times a year, I enter a manic phase. Do you know what that is? Manic. And when I'm manic, everything is more. Right. So that's the context. So for the last few days I've been in a manic phase. They are amazing. Like, you know, I suppose it's mental illness, right? But I don't experience it that way. It becomes a problem for other people. In other words, I become a little bit too much. Because in the manic phase I have infinite energy. I don't seem to need sleep. Like literally, I think I had two hours of sleep the night before, went all day, had a great workout. I did more work in the last 48 hours, more comics, more writing, got more chores done, did paperwork I've been putting off forever. I mean, I was just cranking through it.

But one of the side effects is that on Twitter, by now you know my pattern: if somebody starts a damaging false rumor about me, I usually go nuclear on it until I can draw more attention to the correction than the original claim. So what I'm trying to do is light all the kindling I can get, get everybody as mad as possible, provoke everybody, draw as much energy toward me. And so yesterday I was just responding to every troll and swearing at them, but I was just having fun. And I can see how from the outside it would look like I was having a meltdown. But let me tell you, if you were to look at the quality of my day, let's say last day and a half, exceptional. The last day and a half has been some of my most enjoyable, productive, incredibly creative days. I was creating micro lessons, three comics in one day. I mean, I was just cranking it out. It was all pretty good.

Now fortunately you've heard of people having manic, what's the other thing? The manic part feels good, but then the manic depressive, depression. I don't really get the depression part. I certainly have days where I'll have a week where I'm down, but not really the kind where you can't get out of bed. No, nothing like clinical depression. You just have days that are not ideal. So if you had a choice of having four weeks during the year where you're a little down, but the trade-off of that is four weeks of mania, you would take the mania. It's a really good trade-off in mental health.

Now let me be really clear. My situation seems to be completely different than most people who are having some kind of mental variability. Let's call it variability. Because the difference between the highs and the lows, generally when you've got that much variability, you're not too happy about it. But I think in my case it just makes other people unhappy. But you also feel invulnerable. Like nothing gets to you. So people were worried that I was down yesterday, and the whole day I was thinking, down? I don't think I've had a finer day in months. It was a really good day.

Yeah, usually you get extreme lows. That's right. So if anybody else tells you they have mania, you should be feeling probably some sympathy. But not in my case. So I was trying to be as mean as I could to everybody because, by the way, the next time there's any major rumor about me that's untrue, I'm going to do the same thing whether I'm in mania or not. I'm going to spend the whole day responding to as many trolls as possible, correcting the record, and I'll be as mean as possible so that they'll retweet it and say, what's wrong with this guy? That's all right. T