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> what is the context

The context is someone with a severe mental illness (bipolar disorder) going through a phase of mania.

Here are some links to information:

(http://www.mind.org.uk/help/diagnoses_and_conditions/bipolar...)

> When I'm in a manic phase, I feel as though I am capable of anything and everything. This can be an amazing feeling, but I sometimes get frustrated and angry with people. Ideas flow constantly and quickly, as if my brain is on fast-forward. Everything happening in the world has significance in my life.

(http://mentalhealth.gov/health/publications/bipolar-disorder...)

(http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mentalhealthinfo/problems/bipolardi...)



Well, this fits in with my own armchair-psychological evaluations of OP...




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