"Bipolar" itself is a dodge. It used to be called "Manic-Depressive," and it was shit even then.
The pathologization of human emotion is fucking ridiculous, and I am so fucking tired of it. Happiness and sadness are now illnesses, and nobody has any agency over the things they do. There are no crimes, only "mental illness" and seriously screw all of this stupid shit.
"Having dealt with" a person who has a "condition" that didn't exist before something like 1990, doesn't give you special insight into the particulars of whatever it is that ails that person.
There isn't any such thing as "bipolar." Look at the word. "Bipolar." Two ends. Two ends of what, exactly? It literally means vascillating between two endpoints, and as I already said, those points used to be described as "manic" (positive) and "depressive" (negative). It literally means you got a case of the sometimes-happy-sometime-sads.
This doesn't mean that the person who gets this diagnosis is just fine and should suck it up. It means that this particular way of describing human activity, human dealing with emotion, isn't correct. It's a catch-trap that ends up more conforming-to-standard than it does actually helping people deal with their shit.
Then say that, instead of adhering to a stupid term that means "case of the happy-sads," which is what "bipolar" means.
Except that this doesn't happen, because it means acknowledging that the problem isn't an illness that just blows in from the fucking Western winds, but an irregularity in a person's capacity for emotional regulation, which starts to touch the third rail of psychology, which is that people have the ability to affect their own emotional state and resultant reactions.
And we can't have that. Because why? Because fuck-all.
It's a real condition, with its own pathology. "Manic-Depressive" was a descriptive name.
Depression goes beyond just sadness.
Mania goes beyond just happiness.
It's not just the 'happy-sads,' as you put it in another post. It's the brain literally burning itself out feeling emotions too intensely-- which is an honest-to-god pathology. You don't treat it and dampen your emotions, and the mood swings get worse and more intense over time, leaving you a gibbering lunatic or a lump of useless melancholy.
It's a mercy you aren't familiar enough with the disorder to know what the hell you're talking about.
The classic mania phase definitely goes beyond happiness.
It borders on psychotic.
Decreased need for sleep for long stretches, endless energy, delusions of grandeur, lots of impulsivity and uncharacteristic risk-taking with promiscuity, drugs, danger, etc.
Nothing you said is rooted in reality. Even your language is gibberish. What is a "real condition?" A condition is a state of being, not something that is capable of being "real" or not. "With its own pathology?" What is that even supposed to mean? ""Manic-Depressive" was a descriptive name." Yeah, those are called words bro. Words describe things. Stunning insight.
"Depression goes beyond just sadness." Okay--to what?Super-sadness? Ultra-sadness? Double-deluxe-extra-hold-the-cheese sadness? This doesn't mean anything. You're still just describing sadness. Same with "Mania goes beyond just happiness." To what? You're still "just" describing some degree of happiness--with activity that we associate with happiness.
You're swirling your arms over a cauldron pretending your mystic incantations are creating insight out of bullshit.
If you like being caught in this escalation, whose slope can't lead anywhere than a tyrannical Pharma-medical bureaucratic regime, then by all means continue. Never learned emotional regulation because the minute you got real sad, your therapist put you on pills? Easy, take another pill. If the oblong one doesn't do the job, maybe a couple triangles will keep you from blowing your brains out for another day.
"Depression goes beyond just sadness." Okay--to what? Super-sadness? Ultra-sadness?
Crippling self-loathing and ennui, resulting in a person preferring sleep/not feeling to being.
For mania, it's grandiosity, lack of inhibition, and risk taking behavior with life-altering consequences.
Not the 'happy-sads.' You glib fuck.
You're swirling your arms over a cauldron pretending your mystic incantations are creating insight out of bullshit.
My man. You're the one peddling bullshit and trying to incant away my mother's diagnosis, and my lived experience and trauma dealing with it. Good fucking luck.
If you like being caught in this escalation...
LIke or dislike doesn't change reality. And yeah. Psychiatry alone can't fix what's really wrong here. The pills don't do shit when the person taking them threatens to go off them to 'punish' the people around her, and it becomes an easter-egg hunt of finding pill stashes. Therapy can work-- if the person is willing to change. If not... welp.
But tell me you don't know shit about mental illness, without telling me you don't know shit about mental illness, why don't you?
Anything used to describe them will become an "problematic" and an insult. It's the people that are disgusting and they simply want some PR nonsense that allows them to get ahead of their reputation.
"Bipolar" itself is a dodge. It used to be called "Manic-Depressive," and it was shit even then.
The pathologization of human emotion is fucking ridiculous, and I am so fucking tired of it. Happiness and sadness are now illnesses, and nobody has any agency over the things they do. There are no crimes, only "mental illness" and seriously screw all of this stupid shit.
"Having dealt with" a person who has a "condition" that didn't exist before something like 1990, doesn't give you special insight into the particulars of whatever it is that ails that person.
There isn't any such thing as "bipolar." Look at the word. "Bipolar." Two ends. Two ends of what, exactly? It literally means vascillating between two endpoints, and as I already said, those points used to be described as "manic" (positive) and "depressive" (negative). It literally means you got a case of the sometimes-happy-sometime-sads.
This doesn't mean that the person who gets this diagnosis is just fine and should suck it up. It means that this particular way of describing human activity, human dealing with emotion, isn't correct. It's a catch-trap that ends up more conforming-to-standard than it does actually helping people deal with their shit.
Then say that, instead of adhering to a stupid term that means "case of the happy-sads," which is what "bipolar" means.
Except that this doesn't happen, because it means acknowledging that the problem isn't an illness that just blows in from the fucking Western winds, but an irregularity in a person's capacity for emotional regulation, which starts to touch the third rail of psychology, which is that people have the ability to affect their own emotional state and resultant reactions.
And we can't have that. Because why? Because fuck-all.
It's a real condition, with its own pathology. "Manic-Depressive" was a descriptive name.
Depression goes beyond just sadness.
Mania goes beyond just happiness.
It's not just the 'happy-sads,' as you put it in another post. It's the brain literally burning itself out feeling emotions too intensely-- which is an honest-to-god pathology. You don't treat it and dampen your emotions, and the mood swings get worse and more intense over time, leaving you a gibbering lunatic or a lump of useless melancholy.
It's a mercy you aren't familiar enough with the disorder to know what the hell you're talking about.
The classic mania phase definitely goes beyond happiness.
It borders on psychotic.
Decreased need for sleep for long stretches, endless energy, delusions of grandeur, lots of impulsivity and uncharacteristic risk-taking with promiscuity, drugs, danger, etc.
Nothing you said is rooted in reality. Even your language is gibberish. What is a "real condition?" A condition is a state of being, not something that is capable of being "real" or not. "With its own pathology?" What is that even supposed to mean? ""Manic-Depressive" was a descriptive name." Yeah, those are called words bro. Words describe things. Stunning insight.
"Depression goes beyond just sadness." Okay--to what? Super-sadness? Ultra-sadness? Double-deluxe-extra-hold-the-cheese sadness? This doesn't mean anything. You're still just describing sadness. Same with "Mania goes beyond just happiness." To what? You're still "just" describing some degree of happiness--with activity that we associate with happiness.
You're swirling your arms over a cauldron pretending your mystic incantations are creating insight out of bullshit.
If you like being caught in this escalation, whose slope can't lead anywhere than a tyrannical Pharma-medical bureaucratic regime, then by all means continue. Never learned emotional regulation because the minute you got real sad, your therapist put you on pills? Easy, take another pill. If the oblong one doesn't do the job, maybe a couple triangles will keep you from blowing your brains out for another day.
Cool story bro.Crippling self-loathing and ennui, resulting in a person preferring sleep/not feeling to being.
For mania, it's grandiosity, lack of inhibition, and risk taking behavior with life-altering consequences.
Not the 'happy-sads.' You glib fuck.
My man. You're the one peddling bullshit and trying to incant away my mother's diagnosis, and my lived experience and trauma dealing with it. Good fucking luck.
LIke or dislike doesn't change reality. And yeah. Psychiatry alone can't fix what's really wrong here. The pills don't do shit when the person taking them threatens to go off them to 'punish' the people around her, and it becomes an easter-egg hunt of finding pill stashes. Therapy can work-- if the person is willing to change. If not... welp.
But tell me you don't know shit about mental illness, without telling me you don't know shit about mental illness, why don't you?
U mad?
Eh. Not really?
Just responding to ignorance.
Yeah ... u mad.
He replied again. Gonna cop to being mad now.
Anything used to describe them will become an "problematic" and an insult. It's the people that are disgusting and they simply want some PR nonsense that allows them to get ahead of their reputation.
Shut up and take your soma.