is anyone else on here bi-polar?

BraveSirRubin · Jun 18, 2009

Didymus Doppelgänger said:

The real sad thing is that if i didnt take my meds this society would love to throw me in a cage. Off my meds im obscene and insulting and constantly getting into BIG trouble that i cant help getting into. We live in a double binding society that tells people to be themselves as long as its a tolerable and constant role and i cant do that without my meds. I basically take meds so that the world can deal with me, not vice versa. The first 14 years of my life i was off meds and constantly going through depression, always had F's and D's no matter how hard i tried, and it always felt like people were expecting too much of me and not giving me chances. With the meds i can be myself and be in society without causing too much trouble.
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Seems like you're not being yourself though.

But ehh, I don't feel like discussing your personal life.

Deranged · Jun 18, 2009

Didymus Doppelgänger said:

The real sad thing is that if i didnt take my meds this society would love to throw me in a cage. Off my meds im obscene and insulting and constantly getting into BIG trouble that i cant help getting into. We live in a double binding society that tells people to be themselves as long as its a tolerable and constant role and i cant do that without my meds. I basically take meds so that the world can deal with me, not vice versa. The first 14 years of my life i was off meds and constantly going through depression, always had F's and D's no matter how hard i tried, and it always felt like people were expecting too much of me and not giving me chances. With the meds i can be myself and be in society without causing too much trouble.
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i know what you're talking about. i don't take my meds for that reason. makes me feel like i'm not me anymore. thinking about starting now though.

PurpByThePound · Jun 18, 2009

Didymus Doppelgänger said:

The real sad thing is that if i didnt take my meds this society would love to throw me in a cage. Off my meds im obscene and insulting and constantly getting into BIG trouble that i cant help getting into. We live in a double binding society that tells people to be themselves as long as its a tolerable and constant role and i cant do that without my meds. I basically take meds so that the world can deal with me, not vice versa. The first 14 years of my life i was off meds and constantly going through depression, always had F's and D's no matter how hard i tried, and it always felt like people were expecting too much of me and not giving me chances. With the meds i can be myself and be in society without causing too much trouble.
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I'm sure it is hard for you as you have to deal with it personally, as all of us "normal" people talk on our high horses.

A lot of it, I believe, is also a maturing process. I'm sure that as you grow older you will gain more knowledge on how to deal with it and hopefully be able to deal without the meds - and that's where the success stories are. In the people who grew up being told they are messed up somehow, and grow to realize they weren't in the least.

Extravagant people have always been outcasts

Didymus Doppelgänger · Jun 18, 2009

BraveSirRubin said:

Seems like you're not being yourself though.

But ehh, I don't feel like discussing your personal life.
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I think its impossible for me not to be myself. My morals and ideas in life have always been rather discursive. I have always done what feels right to me.

DroneLore · Jun 18, 2009

PurpByThePound said:

It has. Most mental "syndromes" are chemical imbalances. What we don't need is more crap flooded into the brain. Our brain can make the same chemicals that ADHD meds attempt to replace. What needs to happen is to seek the cause of the imbalance...prescriptions aren't treating the CAUSE, it treats the symptoms.
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I know the basics of neuroscience. But, to date, there has not been an explicit explanation for the way dextroamphetamine affects a person with ADHD vs. a person without. If you would like to direct me to a study that discusses the role of dopamine in ADHD I will gladly read it.

PurpByThePound · Jun 18, 2009

DroneLore said:

I know the basics of neuroscience. But, to date, there has not been an explicit explanation for the way dextroamphetamine affects a person with ADHD vs. a person without. If you would like to direct me to a study that discusses the role of dopamine in ADHD I will gladly read it.
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Hmm, that's interesting. I guess I never looked too deep into that point...

For that matter, do we know WHY the effects of many medicines do what they do in our brains?

'Why' is definitely a hard answer to come up with - not just on similar topics, too.

Didymus Doppelgänger · Jun 18, 2009

DroneLore said:

I think it's a certain class of antidepressants. Mobutrin (wellbutrin? somethingbutrin.) is a moodstabilizer afaik.
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My mother uses wellbutrin. Its a mood stabilizer that can also help treat ADHD/ADD(now days ADD and ADHD are considered the same thing and they're just callin it ADHD).

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