Posted by deniseuk190466 on November 3, 2006, at 14:15:39
In reply to Re: Unipolar v bipolar:Where do we draw the line?, posted by clint878 on November 2, 2006, at 19:58:36
Sorry, I shouldn't have said that about wanting to experience the highs, I can imagine they could get you into awful trouble and then you must have the lows where you're too depressed to sort out the trouble you got yourself into when you were high.
It's just that Stephen Fry (comic in Britain) did a TV documentary about bipolar (as he suffers from it) and all of the people he interviewed (bar one woman who I felt so sorry for) said if they had the choice and they could press a switch to turn it off then they wouldn't press it as they would miss the highs too much and wouldn't want to live a normal life.
All I know is that I'd give anything to be able to press a switch and turn off my depression (I sort of do it with Zyprexa) but I yearn not to have it full stop. The fact that it isn't just an episode and sometimes I feel that there is no end to it makes things worse. If I thought it was just an episode even a 2 yearly one I could maybe get through it better.
Denise
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