MikecMikec
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O boohoo, get over it
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bipolar and relationships!
- Thread starter cheez_ballz
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Oh booh hoo, just get over it...Grow up kiddie...Once you graduate high school and start dealing with real issues in life you might change your mind...This MikecMikec kid thinks emotions can just disappear at the wave of a wand...It's a little bit more involved than pushing aside your homo-erotic fantasies of gayness while laying in bed with your male friend once the drugs wear off---what a douchenut...I hope your friend didnt read it, or maybe you might get lucky and find he has the same feelings hidden deep within...
Anyhow, I can relate as I was once scarred from a long term relationship with someone whom was Bi-polar...It still affects me to this day, mostly because it changed my outlook on life in general...Does a fat person like being fat???I doubt it with the popularity of all these new diet schemes...If your ugly and have gnarly teeth, we now live in a world where you can change your appearance...You can slice and dice anything you want to "fix" what hurts you...Now being bi-polar, theirs no surgery to fix...The brain is different from what is deemed "normal" since it doesn't produce lithium, a chemical needed to balance out our emotions...Mental institutions were our grandparents generation's idea to ween out these UNFORTUNATE humans from society...And then the madness begins...Lets put them on this and this and see what happens...A bunch of rats in cages, too bad they had the brain power to realize zonked out is not how they wan't to be...They wan't to be normal, like you and I...BUT ARE WE NORMAL??? too bad people still don't realize that being bi-polar is a life long struggle just to be normal, or what our society considers normal...Next thing you know their gonna try and ban bi-polar marriage, they might as well since both GROUPS have different brain chemistry...That's whats fucked up here...We are all human, some are just dealt a blow that will make their life harder to survive---whether it be missing a limb, or brain chemistry that doesn't show up until later in life...If you think life sucks having no conditions other than how much of your parents money you can spend---try living with a brain that constantly switches how you perceive life... BI-POLAR...Get it, like two poles of a magnetic force pushing and pulling in either direction...
Anyhow, I can relate as I was once scarred from a long term relationship with someone whom was Bi-polar...It still affects me to this day, mostly because it changed my outlook on life in general...Does a fat person like being fat???I doubt it with the popularity of all these new diet schemes...If your ugly and have gnarly teeth, we now live in a world where you can change your appearance...You can slice and dice anything you want to "fix" what hurts you...Now being bi-polar, theirs no surgery to fix...The brain is different from what is deemed "normal" since it doesn't produce lithium, a chemical needed to balance out our emotions...Mental institutions were our grandparents generation's idea to ween out these UNFORTUNATE humans from society...And then the madness begins...Lets put them on this and this and see what happens...A bunch of rats in cages, too bad they had the brain power to realize zonked out is not how they wan't to be...They wan't to be normal, like you and I...BUT ARE WE NORMAL??? too bad people still don't realize that being bi-polar is a life long struggle just to be normal, or what our society considers normal...Next thing you know their gonna try and ban bi-polar marriage, they might as well since both GROUPS have different brain chemistry...That's whats fucked up here...We are all human, some are just dealt a blow that will make their life harder to survive---whether it be missing a limb, or brain chemistry that doesn't show up until later in life...If you think life sucks having no conditions other than how much of your parents money you can spend---try living with a brain that constantly switches how you perceive life... BI-POLAR...Get it, like two poles of a magnetic force pushing and pulling in either direction...
How might one go about getting help for a loved one who may be Bi-Polar?
I was with a woman for 10 years and she was always up and down in her moods.She spent about 5 of those years in a sort of depression where she gained alot of weight.
She sometimes did things that were out of the ordinary for her,like tattoo's and peircing's.
We have since split up on accont of her cheating.
She is now deep into the bar scene,and I'm afraid she may be into some harder drugs.
I still love this woman with all I've got,and would do anything to help her.
I've always thought she needed help,but never really put a name on her condition untill now.
These posts has made me understand her ways of thinking,and makes me want to help her even more.
I was with a woman for 10 years and she was always up and down in her moods.She spent about 5 of those years in a sort of depression where she gained alot of weight.
She sometimes did things that were out of the ordinary for her,like tattoo's and peircing's.
We have since split up on accont of her cheating.
She is now deep into the bar scene,and I'm afraid she may be into some harder drugs.
I still love this woman with all I've got,and would do anything to help her.
I've always thought she needed help,but never really put a name on her condition untill now.
These posts has made me understand her ways of thinking,and makes me want to help her even more.
Helios.
Ex-Bluelighter
There are degrees of bipolarity.
If you are bipolar, you can go to support groups and meet someone similar.
If you are bipolar, you can go to support groups and meet someone similar.
rashandreflex
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SugaCane said:
i just have to say that this has got to be one of the most ignorant statements i have ever seen made on this board. brains do not produce lithium8) ...lithium is not a chemical that is "needed" to balance out our emotions....people with bipolar disorder are not deficient in lithium. it's not clear why lihtium helps some people with bipolar disorder...it has been hypothesized that it affects levels of serotonin/norepinephrine...but i'm not sure how valid that is.
further, chemical imbalances are not necessarily the root of mental illness. that is what pharmaceutical companies would like us to believe, but it has never failed to astonish me how little evidence there is for the serotonin hypothesis of depression, the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia, etc.
rashandreflex
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first of all, i'm a girl thought you're definitely not in the minority of people who have thought my user name sounded male.
i wasn't exactly sure what you were talking about so i can assure you that nothing other than the lithium statement set me off. and i have no idea what "flaming friends" have to do with anything?
the reason why i reacted so strongly to it was because (as i said above) it was evidence of the biopsychiatric hegemony in the US (the core of which is the belief that the underpinnings of mental illness are chemical imbalances)....and, to boot, the statement wasn't even correct.
i wasn't exactly sure what you were talking about so i can assure you that nothing other than the lithium statement set me off. and i have no idea what "flaming friends" have to do with anything?
the reason why i reacted so strongly to it was because (as i said above) it was evidence of the biopsychiatric hegemony in the US (the core of which is the belief that the underpinnings of mental illness are chemical imbalances)....and, to boot, the statement wasn't even correct.
ebola?
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>>...lithium is not a chemical that is "needed" to balance out our emotions....people with bipolar disorder are not deficient in lithium. it's not clear why lihtium helps some people with bipolar disorder...it has been hypothesized that it affects levels of serotonin/norepinephrine...but i'm not sure how valid that is.
further, chemical imbalances are not necessarily the root of mental illness. that is what pharmaceutical companies would like us to believe, but it has never failed to astonish me how little evidence there is for the serotonin hypothesis of depression, the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia, etc.>>
This is all correct. Nonetheless, bipolar disorder generally doesn't respond much to therapy, and some medications do help.
ebola
further, chemical imbalances are not necessarily the root of mental illness. that is what pharmaceutical companies would like us to believe, but it has never failed to astonish me how little evidence there is for the serotonin hypothesis of depression, the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia, etc.>>
This is all correct. Nonetheless, bipolar disorder generally doesn't respond much to therapy, and some medications do help.
ebola
MikecMikec
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Wow.... i told this guy to get over it because i only read the first post, and it looked like all he was after was attention... calling someone"Bitch" or "whore" after breaking up is just immature, As for the homesexuality statements in your response... I don't see how that has anything to do with emotions. And i have delt with many issues in my life, just because I'm still in highschool doesnt mean I Haven't gotten out and lived, I Lived in australia for 6 months with only a few friends and enough money for living and food, and the UK for 3 months again with a few friends and barely enough money. Whats your idea of going out and Living, your 9 - 5 job then coming home getting drunkSugaCane said:
But as for bi-poplar people, I know 2 at my school, they seem pretty normal though but there on medication.
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cheez_ballz
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finally i left that bitch, god i feel GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
duck_racer
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drug_wench said:
Couldn't agree more
