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Here's how mania might look. The numbers below refer to the symptoms listed on pages 34 and 35.

Let's say you work at a call center for IBM. You spend all day on the phone to customers, helping them fix their computer problems. You're also in charge of logging their questions and complaints in a database. Over the course of a week, you start to notice connections between calls that you never noticed before (4). You realize there's a pattern to the database that could revolutionize the future of IBM (1). You start staying at the office long past closing time, working on solving this pattern far into the wee hours (6). Solving the pattern is more important than eating or sleeping (2). When you tell your coworkers and supervisors about the pattern you discovered, they seem confused, though you talk about it incessantly (3). You get frustrated because nobody else can see how important and revolutionary your discovery is. Even your girlfriend doesn't understand your great discovery, but she wants you to tell Dr. Brunner about it because she thinks he will.