Living with bipolar disorder and managing and adjusting my life to fit, I sometimes like to read or see case studies about other people and how they’ve dealt with similar issues.  One of the best so far — because he’s blogged about it, day by day, and so you get to walk alongside him (to the extent that you can with one entry a day) — is Rick Reynolds, over at The Happiness Project.

I first heard Rick’s work in about 1992 or ’93, when I got the cassette of his one-man show, Only the Truth is Funny.  It’s a great monologue, one that I finally managed to track down when they reissued it on CD sometime in the past year or so.  The intro to that monologue is included in the first episode of his new web-series, which can be streamed or added to your iPod podcast subscriptions.  It’s seven minutes long, and has one of the funnier lines I’ve heard in quite some time (listen for a mention of bad breath).

Always good to see other people dealing with their lives, whether through therapy, medication, or pure determination.