Bipolar
Gratification becomes a major issue in manic-depression. One sign of the onset of depression is a spreading loss of the sense of gratification in such immediate things as friendship, jokes, conversation, food and sex. Long-term gratifications seem even more meaningless.
By contrast, the manic can find gratification in almost anything, even a leaf falling, for example.
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