Minds under failure, minds from inside
When has a state impersonated a conclusion?
What it argues
A first-person account of bipolar illness by a clinician: the pull of mania, the loss of judgement inside it, the argument with medication over which self is authentic. It is the clearest available case study of how a state can impersonate a self.
The probe
Write down one state you have been in that you mistook for a conclusion about your life. Name the state separately from the conclusion.
The source
An Unquiet Mind — Kay Redfield Jamison, 1995. The link goes to the text or to a catalogue record for it, not to a summary. This one is a catalogue record: the entry gives you the question and the probe, not the argument in the author's words.