When I was slipping into the beginning of my own bipolar-type schizoaffective disorder, i was quite bitingly sarcastic. I don't think I appeared sad to other people, or depressed, but other people sometimes found my sarcasm quite annoying.

"Melancholia" is a section from my essay "Living with Schizoaffective Disorder": http://www.warplife.com/mdc/books/schizoaffective-disorder/m...