What's with all these bi-polar people?

[ryanman]

I could tell you some great stories from people who have worked with those in institutions but I dont have time right now

It really can be like 'medication time' from One Flew Over

I've got a mate who works in a nut house and I've had the pleasure of going in one once to see someone I knew who had lost the plot.

It was like walking into something out of resident evil! Zombies everywhere. Actually scared me a little. Some freaky shit!

I have been in a 'nuthouse' once to visit a relative. Everyone seemed normal. I had a nice roast dinner and apple pie. So did they. Only difference was I could leave and they couldn't. (well, not the ONLY difference, but the only visible one).

[Howlin Mad Missy]

I could tell you some great stories from people who have worked with those in institutions but I dont have time right now

It really can be like 'medication time' from One Flew Over

I've got a mate who works in a nut house and I've had the pleasure of going in one once to see someone I knew who had lost the plot.

It was like walking into something out of resident evil! Zombies everywhere. Actually scared me a little. Some freaky shit!

I have been in a 'nuthouse' once to visit a relative. Everyone seemed normal. I had a nice roast dinner and apple pie. So did they. Only difference was I could leave and they couldn't. (well, not the ONLY difference, but the only visible one).

Andrew Austin is the man. Great stories about how he took the door of the patients smoking area and the staff smoking area..how rather than trying to coax them to take there meds and take a looong 'play the game' as the other nurses did he used to roll out the trolley and ask them what they wanted today, uppers? downers? these ones are a pretty colour, two?three? how about the whole bottle?

Funny thing was they didnt argue, looked at him like he was a nutter and took their meds no problem but of course you can't act that way (why not)

how you'd get a bunch of people sitting round with the dr's & nurses, all with nothing to say being depressed for an hour. Time's up they all wander outside and start chatting about football like regular folk

how when he was observing a schizo rehab meeting - which was patting a balloon to each other (?) when he took over asked who wanted to go to the pub, they all wanted to go - cant do that they're in schizo rehab- going to the pub in clinical world = bad. patting a balloon = good rehab

[0james0]

I could tell you some great stories from people who have worked with those in institutions but I dont have time right now

It really can be like 'medication time' from One Flew Over

I've got a mate who works in a nut
house and I've had the pleasure of
going in one once to see someone I
knew who had lost the plot.
It was like walking into something
out of resident evil! Zombies
everywhere. Actually scared me a
little. Some freaky shit!

I have been in a 'nuthouse' once to
visit a relative. Everyone seemed
normal. I had a nice roast dinner
and apple pie. So did they. Only
difference was I could leave and
they couldn't. (well, not the ONLY
difference, but the only visible one).

When I went in they were all noticeably crazy. One guy was roaming the corridors asking everyone if they had seen his rabbit (he's been looking daily for 5 years but still not found it!) another women jumped out at me because I was walking on the floor and it was electrocuted! She jumped out of no where and screamed at me to get off the floor! I appreciate she was looking after me, but still, made me jump out my skin. I did decide to resist her offer of walking on chairs and continued to use the electrified floor, I explained I had rubber shoes, but she didn't seem to understand. Probably thought I was nuts!

All genuine stories, there were a couple other odd things that freaked me out on my visit, but I can't remember them now.

It was sad to see, but still bloody scary!

[Gandalf]

Now those people in the nuthouse seem like proper crazy people. That for me is real mental trauma rather than the more superficial designer mental illnesses that seem to be emerging. Looking for a rabbit for a period of 5 years is seriously hardcore. Feeling depressed is nothing when compared with that. The intelligent depressed person probably has the ability to adapt, the rabbit guy is condemned that way for eternity.

Nothing worse than eternally looking for a rabbit IMO. That is beyond existential.

[Gandalf]

Anyway, I am going to go easy on the mentally ill. They have their own lives and they and their loved ones need to do what is right by them. Personally, I find the idea of artificially altering the brain for something like depression quite repellant, but each to their own. To me there is nothing more noble than a troubled mind howling into the wilderness like King Lear. You wouldn't want to imagine him popping some prozac and having a sleep. No, you have to work your own way through these things and though life is tough, that is part of the savage wonder.

It's a beautiful spring day today and I am going to go and look at the lake and see the cherry blossoms. Life is indeed a beautiful thing and I am going to cherish it in all the ways that the mentally ill cannot. If I see a rabbit I shall let it be.

[Youngblood]

Anyway, I am going to go easy on the mentally ill. They have their own lives and they and their loved ones need to do what is right by them. Personally, I find the idea of artificially altering the brain for something like depression quite repellant, but each to their own. To me there is nothing more noble than a troubled mind howling into the wilderness like King Lear. You wouldn't want to imagine him popping some prozac and having a sleep. No, you have to work your own way through these things and though life is tough, that is part of the savage wonder.

It's a beautiful spring day today and I am going to go and look at the lake and see the cherry blossoms. Life is indeed a beautiful thing and I am going to cherish it in all the ways that the mentally ill cannot. If I see a rabbit I shall let it be.

lol miles. this is probably this first ever funny post I've read from you. It is either your best ever tongue in cheek work, or the words of someone closing in on the step off time.

[Gandalf]

Anyway, I am going to go easy on the mentally ill. They have their own lives and they and their loved ones need to do what is right by them. Personally, I find the idea of artificially altering the brain for something like depression quite repellant, but each to their own. To me there is nothing more noble than a troubled mind howling into the wilderness like King Lear. You wouldn't want to imagine him popping some prozac and having a sleep. No, you have to work your own way through these things and though life is tough, that is part of the savage wonder.

It's a beautiful spring day today and I am going to go and look at the lake and see the cherry blossoms. Life is indeed a beautiful thing and I am going to cherish it in all the ways that the mentally ill cannot. If I see a rabbit I shall let it be.

lol miles. this is probably this first ever funny post I've read from you. It is either your best ever tongue in cheek work, or the words of someone closing in on the step off time.

Oh, come now, dear child, I am sure there has to be at least one other funny post out there somewhere. Intended to be funny, but also a seriousness lurking beneath. King Lear is one of my favourite Shakespeare plays, a might fine piece of work by the immortal bard. King Lear is Shakespeare's very own wheatfields and the crows.

As an aside, Bilbo's last post has me convinced that he is bi-polar as well.

[Kev]

Anyway, I am going to go easy on the mentally ill. They have their own lives and they and their loved ones need to do what is right by them. Personally, I find the idea of artificially altering the brain for something like depression quite repellant, but each to their own. To me there is nothing more noble than a troubled mind howling into the wilderness like King Lear. You wouldn't want to imagine him popping some prozac and having a sleep. No, you have to work your own way through these things and though life is tough, that is part of the savage wonder.

It's a beautiful spring day today and I am going to go and look at the lake and see the cherry blossoms. Life is indeed a beautiful thing and I am going to cherish it in all the ways that the mentally ill cannot. If I see a rabbit I shall let it be.

lol miles. this is probably this first ever funny post I've read from you. It is either your best ever tongue in cheek work, or the words of someone closing in on the step off time.

Oh, come now, dear child, I am sure there has to be at least one other funny post out there somewhere. Intended to be funny, but also a seriousness lurking beneath. King Lear is one of my favourite Shakespeare plays, a might fine piece of work by the immortal bard. King Lear is Shakespeare's very own wheatfields and the crows.

As an aside, Bilbo's last post has me convinced that he is bi-polar as well.

I think that's a fairly reasonable assessment..

[Youngblood]

just a foot note to this thread,

There is such a vast difference between depression which so many experience, know and understand, to which you most certainly fit all the criteria for being familiar with miles, and bi polar, which is depression and sanity's evil counterpart, via gross psychosis often in the name of mania. They almost shouldn't even be discussed within the same parameters.

[CFH]

Anyway, I am going to go easy on the mentally ill. They have their own lives and they and their loved ones need to do what is right by them. Personally, I find the idea of artificially altering the brain for something like depression quite repellant, but each to their own. To me there is nothing more noble than a troubled mind howling into the wilderness like King Lear. You wouldn't want to imagine him popping some prozac and having a sleep. No, you have to work your own way through these things and though life is tough, that is part of the savage wonder.

It's a beautiful spring day today and I am going to go and look at the lake and see the cherry blossoms. Life is indeed a beautiful thing and I am going to cherish it in all the ways that the mentally ill cannot. If I see a rabbit I shall let it be.

lol miles. this is probably this first ever funny post I've read from you. It is either your best ever tongue in cheek work, or the words of someone closing in on the step off time.

Oh, come now, dear child, I am sure there has to be at least one other funny post out there somewhere. Intended to be funny, but also a seriousness lurking beneath. King Lear is one of my favourite Shakespeare plays, a might fine piece of work by the immortal bard. King Lear is Shakespeare's very own wheatfields and the crows.

As an aside, Bilbo's last post has me convinced that he is bi-polar as well.

Shakespeare fucking blows.