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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Racing thoughts, counted
Mania changed how words were linked, not how many mistakes people made.
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Fifteen years later, speed mattered more than mood
Processing speed predicted how people’s lives were going better than their mood symptoms did.
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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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