Becoming a full time maniac

[HorseBucket]

Mania is a severe medical condition characterized by extremely elevated mood, energy, unusual thought patterns and sometimes psychosis.

Confronted with the decision whats it gonna be? Yay or nay? Yay all the way. Mania is much rarer than depression but it exists. Elevated mood levels compared to what though. Who sets the standard? Maybe most people are actually in a depressed state of mind and the maniacs are in a natural state of mind. The way swim sees it is if people can become depressed full time then they can become maniacs full time if they play their cards right.

So how would we go about attaining this manic state of mind. On wikipedia they mention that this state is often induced by a brain tumour. That approach is a little too mad for swims likings.

Hypnosis maybe? Maybe if we implant the beliefs that our natural mindset is more euphoric than anything we've ever reached on meth then our mind will send the right impulses to match that belief. Neurotransmitters are just chemical messengers telling our neurons to bring on the euphoria so there'd be no need to deplete any neurotransmitter supplies. Maybe drug induced states could be anchored with hypnosis? Swims seen this show where this guy called Derren Brown supposedly hypnotized some guy in the bar to be drunk and the guy said it worked.

Maybe we could take the philosophy approach. Swim overrides heavy amounts of social bullshit because his philosophy transcends the paradigm but swims also got himself into some serious tangles by philosophizing so he doesn't think his philosophizing skills are good enough to get the job done. Swim tends to let his philosophizing get out of control because just when he thinks he has an all encompassing philosophy theres always 1 spanner in the works. Maybe ignorant philosophizing will work though. Making a philosophy which backs up the idea of being a full time maniac but ignores everything else. When philosophizing 1 thing to always keep in mind is that just because something is the concensus does not mean that you have to abide by it. Human logic can easily be flawed especially when it comes to stuff like this. To find flaws in the logic suspend your logic temporarily and approach things without it then you'll see what logic stands and what doesn't.

The advantage of the latter approach is that you can be proud that you did it with no external help at all. The advantage of the former is that it might actually work. Not saying that the latter won't work just saying that swim highly doubts he can do it like that. Hypnosis though thats