Both Harold Innis (1894-1952) and Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) taught at the University of Toronto. Innis and McLuhan are the co-founders of what is known as the Toronto School of Media Ecology, which also includes Eric A. Havelock (who did teach at the University of Toronto for a number of years) and Walter J. Ong (who did not teach at the University of Toronto, but who was a graduate student of young Marshall McLuhan's when he taught English at Saint Louis University from 1937 to 1944).
In my adult lifetime, I have devoted a considerable amount of my time and energy over the years to writing about both Havelock and Ong.
Now, in the present OEN article, as a follow up to my wide-ranging and, at times, deeply personal 12,900-word OEN article "Thomas J. Farrell's Further Reflections on His Life and Work" (dated May 5, 2025; viewed 788 times as of May 15, 2025), in which I mention the prolific energetic American pornstar Cory Chase by name 117 times, I now want to turn to saying something further about myself as the author of these and other various OEN articles: I am a hypomanic personality type person. Let me explain what I mean by this by starting with certain personal information about myself. Let me now explain what I mean by this.
As I have explained in certain other OEN articles of mine, I had a mental breakdown in late February 1974. I was hospitalized in the psychiatric hospital at the Saint Louis University Medical Center for about a week to ten days in late February and into early March 1974. (I turned 30 years old on March 17, 1974.)
In any event, I was diagnosed with having had a hypomanic episode, and I was put on lithium carbonate at 300mg. a day. I continued taking 300mg. of lithium carbonate a day until 1979, when my psychiatrist in St. Louis talked me into stop taking lithium carbonate daily with the argument that nobody knows the long-term effect of taking lithium carbonate.
Lithium carbonate is a salt compound. Up to the time when psychiatrists discovered that lithium carbonate was an effective medication for a hypomanic episode, there was no effective medication for a hypomanic episode. As a result, people who experienced a hypomanic episode died from exhaustion.
For further information about mania, see the Wikipedia entry on "Mania":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mania
Now, in the days leading up to my mental breakdown and hospitalization in late February 1974, I was feeling mildly euphoric, and I was sleeping less than four hours a night. No doubt you can readily imagine how sleeping less than four hours a night could over time contribute to physical exhaustion and death. In any event, because nobody understood why lithium carbonate was an effective medication, it was referred to as a miracle drug.
Now, flash forward in my life to late August and early September 2024 when I enjoyed watching the busty (37") young Lynda Carter perform in her wonderfully revealing Wonder Woman costume as I watched the DVD version of the 1970s Wonder Woman television series on the big-screen television in the living room of my home in Duluth, Minnesota. I fell in love with young Lynda Carter's gloriously beautiful body. As a result of falling in love with young Lynda Carter's gloriously beautiful body, I felt mildly euphoric for ten weeks in the fall of 2024. However, after about ten weeks of feeling mildly euphoric in the fall of 2024, I stopped feeling mildly euphoric a few days before the presidential election om November 5, 2024. I have not felt mildly euphoric since November 2024.
Now, because feeling mildly euphoric for about ten weeks in the fall of 2024 reminded me of feeling mildly euphoric for days before my mental breakdown and hospitalization in late February 1974, I considered the possibility that I might experience a second hypomanic episode and be hospitalized a second time. But that did not happen. In the fall of 2024, I regularly slept for seven to eight hours a night. I just went around feeling mildly euphoric every waking moment of every day for about ten weeks in the fall of 2024. You might want to note my OEN articles that I listed above that I published in September and October 2024.
Now, years earlier, in 2005, I was surprised to find two new books about hypomanic behavior: (1) John D. Gartner's The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (A Little) Craziness (And a Lot of) Success in America (Simon & Schuster); and (2) Peter C. Whybrow's American Mania: When More Is Not Enough (W. W. Norton and Company).
Several years later, I came across Nassar Ghaemi's similar book titled A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness (Penguin Press, 2011).
In effect, all three of these authors claim that there is a hypomanic personality type person.
All three authors discuss both President John J. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as widely known examples of hypomanic personality type persons.
I am a hypomanic personality type person. Are you a hypomanic personality type person, too?
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