Fluorescents success.

[Randy]

My therapist says my symptoms of HFA are masking bipolar disorder, and it is very hard to tell if I even have it.  To make in worse, there is the discrete personality disorder, were I mimic bipolar disorder, to make dealing with my mom easier.

[McGiver]

i dont know the answer to this so this is why i will ask it.

does your mom realize when she is going through bipolar changes?
is it really bad?
what does she do? does she get moody, depressed, what?
is it something that occures that the individual is aware of, but has no control over?
are there medications or counselling, that can help control the swings?

[Randy]

My mom has lithium 900 mg. Therapeutic does tends to be 1200- 1800mg.( I think I remember something like that)  Average diet provides a couple of mcg a day.  Seaweed and sugar cane are good sources of lithium.  They are still wondering if its essential or not, as a nutrient.  My mom needs more, but won;t go any higher.  She says its messing up her thyroid and teeth. She grew a beer belly after starting meds.  I agree, she does need higher.  She take seroquel too, because she hear voices at night, tell her what to do. (good things) She can stay up untill 2:00am.  She goes, "How did you know what time I go to bed?" She told me and does not remember. I don;t know if she pays attention to manic and hypomanic phases, or knowes when they occur.  I know she got diagnosed after she got caught selling drugs. It got her out of prison. She goes to south shore mental health so I would hope she knowes.  I wish she would regulary pratice meditation like I do, because then she would not have such a fuckn problem.  I am mad at her anyways, because she tells strangers, I have AS.  She will sometimes blert out symptoms too.  I do it back too her.

[Merry Widow]

By stepping onto Intensity he has opened himself to people's honest and insulting responses. If this were in the WP haven and I were still a mod, I would have put a stop to it a long time ago. But I think McJagger and others have made it abundantly clear what this site is about, and it's not pussyfooting around people who have issues. So whether or not Fluorescent is stable enough to take it, we have the right to dish it out.

oops. sorry..... i've only just read this.

i didn't mean that people shouldn't treat Fluorescent (or anyone else) the way they feel inclined to; what i meant was that i don't understand why anyone would want? to argue with someone who seems quite insecure and vulnerable. i realise that it is the individual's choice whether they take the other person's mental stability in to the equation before responding to their statements.

i also think there is something rather dishonourable about aiming for such an easy target (although, i'm not saying that it shouldn't be allowed). if the expression "no shame in losing to the best" is true, then perhaps it is also true that there is? shame in winning to the worst.

[Pyraxis]

I'm not sure Flourescent (or along the same lines, happeh) are in fact the worst when it comes to having an argument. Someone like Space or maybe Neuroman would be what I'd consider "easy" - people whose insecurities are glaringly obvious and therefore easy to exploit. But with someone as hyposensitive as fluorescent, happeh, or neanthumain, steering an argument in such a way that it avoids two people talking to empty air and not hearing a word each other says, is quite a challenge. At least for me, maybe it's different for others. So I don't see any dishonor in it.

[Randy]

I. But with someone as hyposensitive as fluorescent, happeh, or neanthumain, steering an argument in such a way that it avoids two people talking to empty air and not hearing a word each other says, is quite a challenge. 

I did it on purpose, I was getting boared. 

I am very sensitive, you just don;t see it.

Vunerable?, I think you had  better look in the mirror.  I really think you should worry about yourself more.

[odeon]

I think there's truth in what Omega_Female says, but this *is* Intensity, and the person in question has repeatedly stated his willingness to participate. I wouldn't necessarily exploit everything there is ("there's still good in me") but I don't shy away either if need be.

OTOH, there's quite a bit going on sometimes behind the scenes, and what you see is not necessarily the whole truth.

[Randy]

You got that right. Finally someone understands. I am only vunerable if I let myself be that way.

[Praetor]

So why all the contraversy over this guy again?

[McGiver]

there is no controversy, nothing to see here folks, move right along.

[odeon]

Don't spoil the fun. Sure there's controversy. There are people crossing to the dark side, there are flames, there's action, sex, heavy language. Some of the subtitles are missing but what the heck.

[McGiver]

yes, he has me talking in hidden jokes that only i can understand.
i have cum over to the dark side.
teeheee.

[Randy]

Well thankyou.  I am glad I am a celebrity. Now if I could get those seminude pics up....

[odeon]

Well thankyou.  I am glad I am a celebrity. Now if I could get those seminude pics up....

...there would be even more sex? 

[Merry Widow]

I think there's truth in what Omega_Female says, but this *is* Intensity, and the person in question has repeatedly stated his willingness to participate.

yes, i'm quite aware that this is Intensity, thank you very much! ? all i am trying to do is to understand what motivates some people to treat Fluorescent so harshly. i can't imagine that he's done anything so bad that he deserves the wrath of so many people. ?

as for a person's willingness to participate, i believe there is a point at which mentally ill people* are thought to be no longer responsible for their own actions ("diminished responsibility"). also, if person "A" helps person "B" to commit suicide, person "A" is still likely to be sent to prison for murder / man-slaughter, regardless of whether or not they had person "B's" consent. i'm not saying it's right, but that's just the way it is.

just in case i haven't explained myself clearly, i am not suggesting that members shouldn't be allowed to insult those who are perceived as being vulnerable; all i am asking is that members conduct themselves according to their own moral code and take some responsibility for their own actions. of course, everybody is free to ignore my advice - so take it or leave it.

* by the way, i am not suggesting that Fluorescent is ?mentally ill; i have no knowledge of his psychiatric history. i am just using him as an example.