mr flowers, i spent a lot of the '90s decade crazy, aware that people knew i'd really lost it, mood swinging constantly, babbling incessantly or totally silent, meds, meds, more meds, and a horrible year or more during which i constantly hoped lightning would hit me and put an end to the horror my existence had become.
there wasn't any big epiphany or one particular event that "fixed" a lot of what was fucked up in my head. i don't know any secrets and i'm not mary fuckin' sunshine by any stretch of imagination but life is a whole different in positive ways now.
i did intentionally change a few negative things and although i pissed off a couple people, i'm much healthier mentally w/out their negative crap around me.
more than anything, i really tried to focus on altering my point of view from "the glass is half-empty" to a "half-full" p.o.v.
the hardest work you'll ever do is to "get down w/ yer bad self" and sort out what matters for the future and what's best left in the past. but you can work through the crazy shit and do ok most of the time.
i have my days, sometimes weeks of crazy, but it doesn't take over now.
best of luck to you, mr flowers, and i'll be sending positive vibes out for you, for what it's worth...
-izzy