Sebastian Junger

But trauma is a known correlate to bipolar as an adult.

And are you an honest reporter on your own experience?

So if you're telling your shrink about the fight you had with your wife the other night, are you really being an honest – Right.

that they have a very hard time saying, yeah, my wife's mad at me, but on the other hand, I was kind of a dick.

Right.

They can't do that.

It's all sort of victim-centered.

And the shrink doesn't – hopefully they see through this stuff, but they don't necessarily know that that's not true.

And there are some things that are legit bad, really, really tough things to have, like borderline.

And I my my my buddy, I mean, he was my closest friend.

He was my brother.

Right.

And.

And he's the best man at my first wedding.

And we were in Bosnia together during the Civil War.

And just brothers, right?

And amazing, brilliant, funny, funny man.

But he was a lifelong depressive.

And part of his brilliance was rooted in, he says, in his depression.

Like it gave him a certain kind of mind.