I have been using a crazy cure for depression involving mind-over-matter and drugs to help facilitate sleep(which is what causes all of my problems). I probably won't be able to do it justice until I've spent a few more years doing it, but I suppose if it will help anyone, it's worth getting out. It started one day when I was hallucinating that the devil was in my room, trying to get me. The hallucination was enough to keep me from sleeping, which meant that the hallucination would never stop.(I'd have to sleep to recover any mental problems of the day) After about a week of night terrors and only 2-3 hours of sleep a night, I decided to go on the offensive. As soon as I realized I was going to hallucinate, I imagined Jon Stewart(from the Daily Show) pleasuring himself in the place of the menacing figure. The image was silly enough that I was easily able to sleep that night. The idea of my treatment, is that I use insanity to cure itself. A sane person certainly wouldv'e just thought something like "This isn't real." or "I have a problem." I respond with "I'd rather see Jon Stewart masturbate." It can be used in many cases. I've seen a few shows where people who've used the treatment(without realizing it) have cured themselves. A man with ADHD who got into marketing, because the condition helps him keep other's attention. Bipolar lawyers(see both sides). Even a small-time actor who used her personalities to better portray her character. See, I don't really think that depression/insanity is a flaw. I think it's something very special which God gave us to deal with, either positively or negatively. Personally, I'm going to take this bipolar disorder and be a great lawyer. I probably didn't make myself clearly enough, but I'd appreciate feedback from anyone who could clear it up or add to it.
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Crazy cure for depression
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Hallucination isn't usual for people with depression - it may have been the result of not enough sleep. (If you can't get enough dreaming done at night, you start having them during the day.) At any rate, you've found something that works for you, which is good.I don't see that bipolarity helps you see both sides - and whether that's an advantage for a lawyer is arguable.
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Hallucinations can come from deep depression. They may have been from insanity, but I consider the two closely related enough to still make the same point. Willpower can cure depression more quickly than any drugs, and my own ideas involve using the depression itself to counter itself. (Willpower being a necessary part of the logic involved) For example, if you're a controlling person, you need to realize that the depression has control over you, and other people will also pretend to therefore be superior to you due to the depression. Delay any feelings of sadness and unworthiness just to fight back. See what I mean?
As for the bipolarity being helpful for both sides...it's because bipolar disorder involves a double-sided mind. Each side agrees with each of the arguments. Because of that, I'll know what the judge and jury will also think, and can apply that to the presentation of my own case. Ex: Empathy for the victim, sympathy for the murderer who'll be spending the rest of his life in prison. -
I'm not quite sure you understand bipolar.
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This is taken from a government website listed here: NIMH"Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought..."making it possible for you to sympathize with someone a normal person could not.Bipolar disorder is characterized by episodes of mania/depression/hypomania in which the person does not act themselves. Thusly, they are different persons. While not listed on the site, I am specifically diagnosed with the type that involves a polarized mind. One which operates differently depending on the mania or depression. I can choose to invoke the mania through certain personal observations of my brain's chemistry(the way you feel when you think) in order to sympathize with the psychotic more fully. Under normal circumstances, I'll just quote the same bull everyone else says, "Horrible those people had to die, great loss to all involved." In a manic state, I will do the opposite, "Incredibly bad that the poor man has to go to prison for a lapse of sanity. Those victims had it coming to them anyway." Of course, subsequent psychological exams have also given me schietzofrenia, but I didn't really want to get into semantics, so I just said it as a blanket term.
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That's a pretty romantic view of the disorder, pandering to the reader. Check out the DSM IV criteria for the problem here, it should shed more appropriate light. Ignore the ads scattered on that page... best site I could find at the moment. The DSM IV will be in any bookstore on the planet, of course.Bipolar disorder usually means (at least in common parlance) that you go through varying periods of severe mania and depression. You are not two people, nor do you have any control over the disorder. If it were controllable by a simple effort of will, then psychotropics would not be so widely used to treat it. Haldol is not just a shortcut in this case.There is no such thing as "insanity." That is a blanket term which often refers to some version of disassociative schizophrenia. The media and entertainment industry have bastardized the entire field of psychiatry in most of their work, misleading the everyday person about most fundamentals. For example, there have been only a handful of individuals with true MPD, and even those diagnoses are heavily criticized.I would suggest that you are distorting the problems you truly do have in order to deal with them, rationalize the fact that you suffer from them. Your words all seem aimed at making mental disorders into strengths and advantages/ Perhaps because you don't want to suffer from a weakness, you try to see it as a gift instead?I assure you that mental disorders are seldom advantageous. In the rare occasions when they are, they are still a nightmare not worth the minor gain. Having your mind hijacked by haywire seratonin levels, being unable to hold your concentration and complete simple tasks (such as the many hours of consecutive work an advertising campaign requires), and other such things are no laughing matter.
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Just because people say that bipolar disorder is one thing, doesn't mean that it is. An optomistic person will find an advantage to any negative thing. A bride side to everything. I'm optimistic. One day, my book will change the way people think about psychiatry, probably years after my death. Currently, there are too many who have fallen for the scam that is called psychiatry. If you were to ask anyone who knew me, you'd see just how much the therapy I've constructed works, but apparently it was a bad idea to try and sum it up in a single post, much less in a day or so. I do suffer from weaknesses too, by the way. I have allergies, crossed-eyes(which have been fixed, but require medicative glasses to keep fixed), possible diabetes, and an all-around piss-poor immune system. If it were weakness, I would fix it. Instead, I keep it as it hones my mind and makes better my daily life. I refer you all to the great minds of our past, and the beliefs that they were also insane(which is a word I use as much as I please). I'm too lazy to go grab a list, but Albert Einstein is a good example. More developed minds seem more prone to insanity than lesser minds(sane people). Just because a bunch of signs fit a person doesn't mean it's any more dependable than a horoscope. That's the most accurate comparison I can think of. People don't believe in astrology, accurate as it is, controls their daily lives. Yet, they will completely submit to an Iranian psychiatrist who tells them their four year degree says they have a real problem.Regardless, as I've said before, I'm done with the issue. My rambling is more for me than for helping the rest of you. If I bitch enough, I'll become more fluent for when I can boggle down to writing. If only you people could see farther than your television.
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There may be a silver lining to every cloud, but getting struck by lightning still hurts like hell.I hope your psychiatrist didn't have a four-year-degree. Psychiatrists are supposed to have gone through medical school. I would suggest changing psychiatrists if your current one only has a bachelor's.They say the line between genius and insanity is a thin one. That may be true. It may even be true that most geniuses are insane to some degree. But it does not logically follow that everyone with mental disorders are geniuses.I urge you to do some research into the concept of cognitive dissonance.
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You can subject yourself to specific substances and surgeries that will damage various parts of the brain, which will, apparently, give you a variety of benefits. Would you suggest going down that path?
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So OneDamageNuke this was your cure for your depression?What may work for you, may not work for other people. But I respect your ideas anyway.
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Change Psychiatry forever. I don't think so. You're bending the truth towards what makes your situation not seem as bad and your own point of view as more rational. Drugs don't help problems only make them worse. Have a good tiime with that book that no one will take seriously. You have to know a lot about a subject(especially psychiatry) to change it forever, and from the posts I have read from you. You don't.