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?
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.
U mad?
Eh. Not really?
Just responding to ignorance.
Yeah ... u mad.
Eh. 2/10.
He replied again. Gonna cop to being mad now.
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?