What's with all these bi-polar people?

[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.

[Gandalf]

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.

True, and having done a little googling in the past 24 hours I feel I am a lot more clued up. The OP was a bit of a rant with a spoonful of ignorance thrown in for good measure, but having gone through a few pages on here and doing the searching I realise that I was being a bit crass and somewhat unfair to the mentalists.

Like I say, I am quite content for everyone to have a mental problem now and for them to do whatever they think is right to deal with it. I have liberalised on this issue.

[Gandalf]

I don't remember saying 'Jap'....must have been having a binge.

[Youngblood]

a brief descriptive difference between depression and bi polar, extrapolated. So you understand a bit more just how silly it is to rally against meds.

Let's speak in terms of death.

Depression untreated can and does cause people to commit suicide. A bi polar psychotic person untreated is more the type you'll see driving down the road with the 4 severed heads of their family in the car, just freshly cut off, laughing, singing, talking to them, and off to Disneyland for the weekend without a care in the world.

[Memphis]

I am quite content for everyone to have a mental problem now and for them to do whatever they think is right to deal with it. I have liberalised on this issue.

I'll let them know

[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.