The week after something good is also a careful week

A hundred and twenty-five people with bipolar disorder were interviewed monthly, on average for more than two years. What emerged: after events where the person achieved something that mattered — got the job, got in, fell in love, finished a big piece of work — symptoms of a high became more frequent.

This is written almost nowhere, and it is exactly what nobody wants to hear. It is worth knowing not in order to fear good things, but so as not to be baffled: if sleep goes sideways after a happy event, that is not ingratitude and not “you ruined it yourself”.

Practically it means one thing: in a week like that, hold your wake-up time and your sleep especially carefully, rather than celebrating like everyone else. No less joy. Just the same alarm.