Manic depression has produced some of the most interesting, original, and powerful people in the history of humankind and has sculpted the world as we know it. This severe dominating mental illness causes extremes of mood and energy in those affected.Coping with manic depression is very difficult, and each day is a challenge for those affected. Mark Andrew Janes (Carbon) is a lifelong sufferer of this debilitating, exhausting and mysterious condition.This book is the autobiography of Mark Andrew Janes, a theoretical and experimental biologist with 30 years of experience in science. The formulator of the grand unified theory of Carbonology, the first quantum theory of life, and a new worldview called Carbonism. This biography explains a man's tremendous battle and his mood extremes. The incredible delusions and immense highs and lows of the condition have produced some of his most extraordinary and original scientific breakthroughs over many years. This book explains and investigates the soul-destroying difficulties in establishing new scientific theories. The battles, rejection, and the misunderstanding experienced.