Bipolar Disorder Support Group
Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria, often accompanied by bouts of clinical depression. This is the place to talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, learn from others' experiences, and find support.
I once heard a psychiatrist describe a "torture theory" for mental illness. It goes like this: If you took a general sampling of the population and put them in a sensory deprivation/torture chamber for an indefinitie period of time, some people would become insane within hours, others it would take days, and still others may not crack for a while. But, inevitably, everyone, at some point, would become insane. Hence we all have it in us, it's just that people with a mental illness gene have a lower threshold than others.
I think this is a helpful way of looking at it, and maybe even a good explanation for saners.
Any thoughts?
I think this is a helpful way of looking at it, and maybe even a good explanation for saners.
Any thoughts?
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theatre and I are there already. I'm having a very berry tea with crackers, cheese and cherry tomatoes and she's having a joint with some beer and we're both on really comfy recliners on thick pile carpet. we need some help with the decor if anyone is around??
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I'm trying to exercise daily. I was doing fairly well until I sprained my ankle 2 weeks ago but now I'm getting back on the horse. Today I walked over a mile with my arm weights that are about 22lbs total. I was out of shape and it was hard on my arms. I also did my 30 situps. I'm also going to drink a lot of water and try to eat healthy. I do tend to have a sweet tooth but I'm cutting...
And a diabetic with low blood sugar can act like a manic....
I don't think this should be considered mental illness but like Lupus or MS a disease that effects the CNS
Damn stupid doctors
Sounds like you met my diabetic husband when his sugar has crashed...He turns into a crazy person!
I tried telling my insurance company that...that it wasn't mental illness, it was a physiological illness and it says so under the American Disabilities Act of 1990. They flat out told me they didn't care if they were breaking the law.
Can You tell, Grasshopper ?
Hahaha
I guess I don't quite understand what you're saying. The theory doesn't necessarily exclude physical illness. I just phrased it that way because this is a bipolar board. It's just a helpful way of explaining why we react differently to stress (and at different amounts) than others.
And yes, your theory would include phyical illness...anything that affects the way the brain works.
Plus I think that Shelly had an interesting insight...what makes other's crazy might make us sane?
Ok, thanks for clarifying. And,yes, Shelly does have an interesting point. Manic people can probably handle all kinds of crazy shit normies can't!! Although stress makes you more manic and eventually causes you to crash into a depression as well. oh well..
Observer/Observed is science WITHOUT taking into account the Life Events that we cannot predict.
Life Events can happen at different intensities.Highs and Lows in a person's lifetime affect the way Biplolar 'awakes'.Death or periods of euphoria affect us differently.
Bipolars are susceptible when these events are squeezed up.
I mean , we have more events happen to us in a shorter time.
Every moment we live of our life is accountable for the onset of our illness. Along with the genetic pre-cursor, it forms an unforgiving partnership that breaks us.
Then life really starts.
that has nothing to do with the BP however. so I have to agree with pluck, that particular experiment doesn't quite fit the puzzle.
I don't classify BP as being insane to begin with.
deffinition adj. insane:afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement
Deffinition Sane: having or showing reason, sound judgment, or good sense: sane advice
AS of right now even depressed or even mildly mixed in that in some way not wanting t exist yet knowing full well this is fleeting is exactly why I am COMPLETELY SANE for even in irrational thought PURE RATIONALITY is what holds firm!!!!!!