explain. >> well, the ideas of "a first rate madness" come out of my experience with those treated bipolar and there are symptoms with conditions. for instance, people who have some depression are more realistic and more empathic towards others than people who have no depression and mentally healthy. and people who have mild manic situations, meaning that you're sped up in your thinking in movement and feeling. people with mild manic are more creative and more able to stress than normally people. these traits of creativity, empathy and realism which occur in manic depression and bipolar illness are seen in some of our best crisis leaders. "in a first rate manemadness" w