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Post by Madamluna on Mar 26, 2004 15:05:21 GMT -5
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Post by negativenine on Mar 26, 2004 21:07:10 GMT -5
Hmmm... I wonder what physical insanity would be like...
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Post by croquetanyone on Mar 27, 2004 5:28:47 GMT -5
As someone clinically diagnosed as bipolar, I don't feel I'm "nutso" or "helpless". At first I was a bit offended about the "nutso/crazy" stuff, but then I read what Swans wrote about her grandmother, and it is very hard to deal with. It can be very hard for friends and family. I do joke about it all the time. If I wallowed in self-pity and took it too seriously, I'd go even crazier. I don't hear voices or think people are out to kill me. I would just get very manic and high on something. My moods were scaring everyone around me and I thought no one loved me. I was never physically violent towards human beings, just the objects around me. Although, I could get verbally abusive. My grandmother is also bipolar. I am able to fully function in society. I'm not a paranoid schizophrenic ( which is not the same thing as bipolar disorder. ) I just have this mental disorder that was passed down to me. I just take my meds and live. I don't let it bother me. I just accept it and live my life.
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Post by croquetanyone on Mar 27, 2004 22:06:08 GMT -5
I really don't plan on having children. At least now I say that. If I ever plan to, I don't know if I'd adopt or what, but right now I'm not in any position to have children, if ever. I work with children as living, so that also influences my decision.
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Post by lucklemony on Mar 29, 2004 7:25:26 GMT -5
no children? brutal. . .
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Post by Luigi on Mar 29, 2004 15:48:47 GMT -5
My friend has been diagnosed with shcizophrenia--or something, he didn't specify,--today, because he heard Voices in his head and the Voices made him do something but I do not want to get specific about it...He always seemed normal, if a tad weird (less weird than I) and a bit violent--not very.
He's the sanest of my friends.
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Post by croquetanyone on Mar 29, 2004 20:29:48 GMT -5
Why is it "brutal" to not have children, Lemon? I may change my mind one day, but at this stage in my life I don't see it happening.
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Post by ineedyourhelp on Mar 29, 2004 20:38:24 GMT -5
OMG we just finished watching that movie in science class! Its awsome!
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Post by embah on Mar 30, 2004 2:22:08 GMT -5
At my high school there used to be this guy there who was a bit mental, or retarted. He used to get picked on so much and I felt really sorry for him, and my sister was friends with his sister, so when we'd wait for the bus he'd hang around us sometimes. Not to sound mean, but although he was mentally insane, he still picked on kids and started fights, but he never got in trouble, which I think is wrong.
Once he asked a girl out and she said no, so he slapped her.
Basically, he's been getting violenter as he gets older.
I don't know or see him anymore thankgod, but in the rare occassion that he does come over to me (he's finished yr 12 now) he's a bit scary, but pathetic too, if you know what I mean.
It's hard to explain, but although he's a bit violent sometimes, I've never seen him hurt someone seriously (my sister told me about the girl he asked out), so I sort of feel sorry for him at the same time, because he's just really a kid who was unfortunately trapped with this mental disease and who just wants to make friends.
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Post by timartwonis on Mar 30, 2004 17:54:53 GMT -5
there's this girl in my grade. she's really smart but I think she has some mental disorder cos she can't talk normal and she drools and she can't write like a normal 13 year old, more like a 6 year old but she has been able to keep up with my grade so if she does have one it must not be severe but in 5th grade she had to type all of her papers but she only did that for a fraction of the year
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Post by embah on Apr 3, 2004 22:06:33 GMT -5
I use to know a girl in grade 1 who was in a wheel chair and had a mental disorder. That was when I was living in a different state though, but now, my best friend and some other girls I used to know are friends with her, and they all treat her like a normal girl, which I think helps her alot.
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Post by Tay Sachs on Apr 4, 2004 0:52:38 GMT -5
schizophrenia is a sad disease. I lost a boyfriend to it. He couldn't stay on his meds and he wandered away from home..we never found him. I assume he's out in the street somewhere, or he's in the state home now.  Swans *hug* taking care of someone with a mental disorder is hard, I know. Both my brothers have severe behavorial disorders, in special schools and everything. The older one is 12, he is worse off than the younger one. You don't know what frustration is until you've cleaned an 1o year old's crap off the car upolstery. I probably won't have children because my mother is manic depressive/bi-polar...but so was her mother, so maybe I've broken the cycle. *crosses fingers* I'm not schizophrenic but I take seroquel for something else...works wonders, you're right. I'm a zombie at anything above 50 MGs, I can't imagine what I would be like at 250. What is madness but brilliance at odds with circumstance? Sigh. |
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Post by lucklemony on Apr 4, 2004 10:32:16 GMT -5
wow. thats sad.
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Post by Tay Sachs on Apr 4, 2004 17:26:04 GMT -5
What's sad is my boyfriend ran away before seroquel was a popularly used drug....probably would've helped him. Speak of the devil, I got an IM from him last night. Judging from the IM, I don't think he's any better. All it said was he was heading up a taskforce to fight satanism, and he couldn't talk about it for fear Satanists would steal our eyeballs to make themselves invisible. I miss my boyfriend. I think off all the ones I've had, he was the one I really loved best. Figures. |
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