by Fishy » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:44 pm
If you ain't got it or haven't seen someone with it, you'll never understand, and even then it sometimes doesn't make any sense.
I don't know if anyone here knows my story, but I spent two years parked in front of this screen waiting on my disability to come through and another year "enjoying" it. Been hospitalized 3 times and been on more drugs than you can count, including lithium AND ritalin, and zyprexa which just happened to kick in a nasty case of type II diabetes. We can argue all day long about about whether manic depression is an illness best treated by drugs or enviroment, but anyone claiming its NOT an illness is simply misinformed or just plain ignorant.
Happy to say I've got the blood sugar under control, and have been steadily employed in my dream job for nearly a year now and should be losing the disability here in a couple months.
Oh and if I was denied a job corps opportunity because of a stigma attached to bipolar illness I'd be raising bloody hell. In the meantime, k0rny, if you're a praying man, give it a shot! I give full credit to God for my recovery. I basically got so pissed off I called Him out, asked Him to show me what He had or lose my faith in Him forever.
Guess He liked having me in His corner.
:)
If you ain't got it or haven't seen someone with it, you'll never understand, and even then it sometimes doesn't make any sense.
I don't know if anyone here knows my story, but I spent two years parked in front of this screen waiting on my disability to come through and another year "enjoying" it. Been hospitalized 3 times and been on more drugs than you can count, including lithium AND ritalin, and zyprexa which just happened to kick in a nasty case of type II diabetes. We can argue all day long about about whether manic depression is an illness best treated by drugs or enviroment, but anyone claiming its NOT an illness is simply misinformed or just plain ignorant.
Happy to say I've got the blood sugar under control, and have been steadily employed in my dream job for nearly a year now and should be losing the disability here in a couple months.
Oh and if I was denied a job corps opportunity because of a stigma attached to bipolar illness I'd be raising bloody hell. In the meantime, k0rny, if you're a praying man, give it a shot! I give full credit to God for my recovery. I basically got so pissed off I called Him out, asked Him to show me what He had or lose my faith in Him forever.
Guess He liked having me in His corner.
:)