be very grandiose in their themes.

成为了他们很伟大的主题
Bernie's mania is not on the far end of the continuum by any stretch,

伯尼的躁狂症并没有那么严重
but you can see it still gets him into trouble.

但是你可以看到还是给他带来了麻烦
Now, there are people who have--who cycle between

现在有很多人
fairly low levels of mania and fairly low levels of depression, back and forth.

在轻度躁狂和轻度抑郁之间徘徊不断反复
And there's been some argument that people who are kind of chronically,

有人认为这种慢性
mildly manic--especially if they're really smart

轻度躁狂症的人尤其是当他们很聪明
or they have a special talent can make it work for them.

或有某项特殊才华的时候反而对其有帮助
And there is a wonderful book by Kay Jamison,

凯·杰米森写了本很好的书
who is a professor at Johns Hopkins where she chronicles--

她是约翰·霍普金斯大学的教授
She does sort of historical biographies on a number of well-known authors

她写了一些知名作家
and poets and musicians, Robert Schumann

诗人和音乐家的历史传记比如罗伯特·舒曼