post-election meltdown 2023
- Amanda Riddell
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- Feb 18, 2024
- 2 min read
Well, this applies to pretty much all my manias. In this particular instance, I had trouble with my prescriptions after moving to Johnsonville. The pharmacy gave me an emergency prescription, and I wasn't aware that those were limited to one-time only.
As for the polyphasic sleep... That was a panic reation to running out of meds and then I wasn't able to find my Zopiclone, so I couldn't sleep, and I get paranoid when I'm sleep-deprived. That time I wasn't high, but most of the other times I was.
I'm not kidding when I say that Jane taught me how to do such things. She taught a range of meditative practices that I often use.
When I was staring up at the wall on Wednesday at Parliament, I was doing that:
This is a good one.
Find your energy and concentrate it on the soles of your feet.
Find the mauri thread, then gradually pull it upwards, consciously relaxing each muscle.
You should feel a gentle broadening or opening up in your body, particularly the spine.
It takes a few minutes, and should be done with conscious slowness.
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I really do make my friends try these, by the way.
Michelle and Amber would remember me trying these meditative techniques with them, plus Amber was one of Jane's students too.
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Anyway, from the outset of my first mania in 2020, I was using the word 'performance art' to describe what I was doing on Facebook, and in my much more famous mania after the 2020 defeat, I also added the word phreaking.
The trolling was a deliberate and conscious reaction to being surveilled. However, after a few days without sleep, my brain begins to believe the lies.
This is why I call it those things. I'm aware that I'm manic or that I'm depressed, and emotional self-awareness is something that my doctors have remarked upon, which suggests that most people aren't so aware.
So, from a legal perspective, I was trolling people and they were intentional trolls, but they weren't intended to be taken at face value.
How long did I have 'NB: profile is performance art' on my main profile?? several years.
Obviously, I drew on real feelings of anger, but the stuff that I said was half-nonsense.
However, my belief is that it's the half that was true that generated the real controversy.
Cheers to Gordon Lehany for suggesting that I emphasise that it was performance art.