manic depression – Page 4 – Marcos M. Villatoro

A Weekend Note from the Home Asylum

I’ve received emails from people, responding to posts about my recent psychotic breakdown. Some of them are friends who ask: 1. If I’m okay and

It’s been a little over ten days since the crack from reality. I’m calmer now. It’s not over. It’s never over. But I’m able to

As chaotic as madness is, there is a pattern to it. This latest episode, for instance: it really began in November, when we set the

My smile in the photo isn’t a lie, but an attempt. It was my idea to take the family Christmas portrait, one of those last-ditch

I had nicked my arm with a razor blade earlier in the season, and thought at the time that it would suffice. Just a little

One Christmas long ago my Appalachian father, Ralph, took his revolver, climbed on the roof, shot once into the woods, came back in and said,

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