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Originally posted by horns
Did anyone see the movie A Beautiful Mind?
In addition to being a great movie, the central character is bipolar.
Anyway, a member of my family was recently diagnosed as biploar. It's not something to be taken lightly, nor is it something easy to control. Bipolar people tend to stop taking their medicines because they miss the high.
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You might do better reading the book, as John Nash is actually schizophrenic, which is a different deal.
Bipolar: To me, this means when you're down, you stay submerged for a while. Like having your head in a bell jar, a la Sylvia Plath. When you're up, you do things like stay up for three days because you're really excited about whatever is on your mind. Keep in mind, this could involve external drugs but in lots and lots of cases doesn't. It can affect children who have never so much as touched caffeine. Going into a high phase or a low phase may be affected by your external environment and other people, but you're pretty alone in this jar thing, and you call your own shots from within that sealed environment.
Schizophrenic: Drop a sheet of acid after putting on a straight jacket and then have people look at you funny and generally try and fuck with your head. I think schizophrenia is more like just dropping the sheet without any of rest... but our society interprets unpredictable, schizophrenic behavior as dangerous and reacts very defensively. So these ultrasensitive open headed people with their senses aswirl end up catching all that fear without being able to filter distance it in their minds.
Not that I'd know.
Funny, my girlfriend was just telling me about something called mad pride month.
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