Significant Moments: Preserving a Contemporaneous Record

For some years now I have been . . .
Charles H. Radziewicz, My Near Death Experience.
. . . writing every day . . .
Bob Simon, Forty Days.
—sometimes feverishly—
ExplorOz, Land Rover Discovery.
. . . as if I had awakened . . .
H.G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon.
. . . from a nightmare, and I wanted to get it all down quickly. I wasn’t worried so much about forgetting. I was worried about revisionism, that as . . .
Bob Simon, Forty Days.
. . . my imagination receded behind me, . . .
Leo Tolstoy, Boyhood.
. . . my mind would begin casting the experience in different lights.
Bob Simon, Forty Days.

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He spends his days ruminating about his difficulties. Patient denied feeling suicidal or homicidal, however. He has not had any appetite changes. However, energy level is increased. Occasionally, he has racing thoughts. Frequently, he feels hyped up. Lately, he has been feeling very motivated. He has been writing his thoughts up to the wee hours of the morning and feels less need for sleep.

Napoleon Cuenco, MD, Initial Assessment, September 1992