Have you ever noticed that some people just move faster? They seem more focused at times … and they show more exuberance for just about everything. The highs they experience may seem perfectly normal to them … and others may even sense they are merely in a good mood …. 
These people are often praised most by managers … because they are capable of more energy and can complete three times the normal tasks other workers take on. People at work can hardly keep up … and often these folks can find themselves climbing the corporate ladder faster than their co-workers. On occasion … though … this same behavior is symptomatic of a serious mental disorder … called hypomania.
Folk singer and guitarist Chris Louviere, uses his music to share his own personal struggles with the bipolar disorder… hypomania. Like Chris… many who face a family history of bipolar disorders such as hypomania … struggle alone for years before finding help. Check out the musical expression of those struggles and solutions in his latest album titled HYPOMANIA and listen to opening lyrics from Chris sing “Benzo Train.”
Through music … Louviere tells of his mother who suffered from misdiagnosed bipolar disorder. He explains how fear of mental problems kept him away from treatment for years. While he inherited his mother’s illness … Chris began to find answers that helped, and music was central to his journey to wellness as well as to his .
In “Benzo Train,” he sings about his attempts to slow down his racing thoughts, and of problems he faced because of using the wrong drugs. Have you seen music’s ability to help people to achieve more calm and with it … a better sense of satisfaction?
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