| spurgeonryan said: Seems like everyday we see something new in the news. Mom kills kids because she is "Bipolar". Actor sleeps with Prostitute because she is Bipolar. Person commited suicide because they are either bipolar or suicidal. Has anyone else noticed this? Seems to be an excuse for everything these days. Everyone is depressed and everyone is bipolar.
'Maybe I am wrong, but it seems to me people just need to grow up and stop being a bunch of punks! I took drugs because I was depressed! I did not do this or that because I was depressed. Some may have some sort of mental condition that would go with these symptoms, but half of Americans? Bullshit! Just more of American Society Enabling this babied foolz! IMO
http://bipolar.about.com/u/ua/psychoticfeatures/ua_hallucinations.01.htm
I apologize if you think you have it. But half the country is not bipolar or depressed or something associated with these two medical problems. Look deep down.....do you really believe you have one of these disorders? Or are you just a baby who has been babied your whole life?
Forget Aids! These two epidemics are wayyyy worse! |
Being Seriously Bi-polar I, I can tell you that when you are manic, that it's like being on recreational drugs. I know because i experimented with them in my early 20's. I'm in my early 40's now and when i'm seriously manic, it's like being on shrooms or acid along with extasy along with some sort of upper. (I didn't try every drug when I was younger but i'm sure one of them is like how I can get. I actually think that my extasy use made my bipolar much, much worse...I didn't abuse it like some people do however I did enough and seeing how a manic episode works, the two looks so related its scary). When manic I make bad decisions, I say stupid things, the more I don't sleep and when you're manic, it's impossible to sleep, the worse I get. I have my GF take my keys to my car and I exist on anything I can make in the toaster or microwave because i've almost lit fires while using the stove and forgot to take something off that was on a burner.
Strangely enough, some of the dumber bi-polar people purposefully go off their drugs so that they force a manic episode to make themselves feel good.
When I am depressed and thank god that the medication I am on now keeps me from going seriously depressed anymore, the feeling of self loathing, of hatred for how you feel is so bad that you literally want to kill yourself. Yes, it can get that bad.
NOW, that being said, most people are a> not bipolar b> not seriously enough bipolar that it explains their problems. I know a ton of people who explain someone's mood swings are being bipolar which is absolutely not right. I believe that there are tons of depressed people but those feelings of depression are psychologically caused by their environment and such, not physiological like bi-polar and clinical depression are. Clinical depression can be caused by a drop in endorphins...the main chemicals in your brain that make you feel good. A long term drop in endorphin production can and does cause you to be depressed...even without situational problems.
The statistics say that like less than 5% of people show any type of bi-polar like mood behaviors and a very very very small portion of those are seriously bi-polar (Bipolar 1 like I am.) Most of the people you see and hear about are just making excuses for their behvavior. It's easy to use BP as an excuses because its extremely hard to PROVE you're BP or not like alone which level of BP you are I, II or Cyclothymia.
If someone is saying they are BP to explain some sort of thing they did, I doubt that BP was the reason in almost all the cases. Most BP people I know want as few people to know about what they are capable of. Being out of control is embarassing. It's not as bad as being 90 years old and shitting the bed but it's not much better. For me I am a control freak when it comes to my behavior so the loss of control on a manic episode makes me suffer immensely. To limit the damage of these episodes, I know when I am starting to go manic so I batten down the hatches and put myself in a good position to limit the damage to my life.
These other people talking about how they when BP and mental? Sorry....they're either a> lying b> idiots for not managing their condition c> a small chance that they don't have a support system/system of making sure they're safe until things calm down.
