I really appreciate that you are doing this. I think it's a good thing. I value you, and I adore your determination to do a good thing in the world.

And I think I need to opt out.

I'm bipolar. I know it. I do what I can to treat it, but I'm going to be bipolar all my life, and a certain amount of living with chronic illness is, well, learning what you can do and what you can't. And when I am going fifteen rounds with the brain chemicals, it doesn't help to be told I'm going fifteen rounds with the brain chemicals. It just makes me feel bitter and resentful and angry that I have this fucking chronic illness, and so.

But thank you.