Posted by sigismund on February 18, 2013, at 16:48:21
In reply to Re: My life and why I'm bipolar » Phil, posted by Toph on February 18, 2013, at 16:21:12
>I'm old enough to remember when either you were manic depressive (bipolar 1) or not
Me too. Or schizophrenic.
I also remember many young people who were diagnosed as schizophrenic because they felt like they were on a thousand tabs of acid (as one said to me) and then swam the river naked and ended on someone's lawn talking about how they were JC, or how the Chinese and the Russians had electrodes in their heads and world peace depended on the thoughts they had. These two were quite lucid, more so than I was, it wasn't as if they had 'problems' (like I thought I had), and then there were a couple of others who had something else, word salad and stuff, very hard to make sense of.
Then there were a few others who had periods perhaps a year long, not much sleep and lots of talk, a lot of pressure, but no treatment and perhaps they were not worse off for that.
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