The Time Issue · Cover story
Felt time is the geometry of mood.
Fast minds, slow clocks, social power, and designing a life that makes room for return.
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Past / Future
We don’t just remember. We rebuild. We don’t just plan. We pre-feel.
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Reclaim the Clock
The calendar is a tool, not a law. Design time around lived cognition.
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Clock Power
Schedule violence, industrial time, and the politics of being late.
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Built for Return
Most systems reward continuity. Durable communities welcome re-entry.
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Bipolarist hat
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Racing thoughts, counted
Asking is how the symptom is defined and measured, and people’s ratings did track something: more racing thoughts went with fewer words. But they were largely unrelated to how speech changed, which the authors put down to limited insight in mania.
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Fifteen years later, mood wasn’t the whole story
The study had no group in stable mood. Fifteen years on, processing speed predicted overall and social functioning, and recent depression mattered too.
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The $202 Billion Bill
About $25 billion of it was measured. The rest is a baseline and figures modelled from other studies.
Resources
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Jeff Got RAW & Personal
Living out as bipolar, from madness to brilliance. Two decades of advocacy and invention.
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Working While Bipolar
First in a series on Bipolar in the Workplace. Audience-driven panel on strengths, weaknesses, and strategies.
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Jeff Blazes His Own Trail
Workplace discrimination, disability accommodations, and new technologies for mental health.
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To the Virginia Senate, on Behavioral Health
Public testimony to the Senate’s Behavioral Health Commission, as a VOCAL Virginia volunteer.
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