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Default Sep 10, 2019 at 09:42 AM
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I have learned a lot about humility, grace and mercy. I've experienced each since my episode last year. I started with being humble and open to doing whatever it took to be stable. The rest just began to fall into place from there.

Who motivates you the most to stay healthy?
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Default Sep 10, 2019 at 10:20 AM
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My grandma. She's dead, but I know she would want me to live the best life I possibly can.

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Default Sep 10, 2019 at 10:42 AM
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not diagnosed but largely being "treated" for, if able to.

what was the craziest thing u did while manic?

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Default Sep 10, 2019 at 12:08 PM
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not diagnosed but largely being "treated" for, if able to.

what was the craziest thing u did while manic?
Crazy comes in various forms, but I think a few things along the lines of what you're looking for are:

* Regularly flashing my husband in the grocery store (mostly just the top, but once the bottom). Actually, I think I once flashed him (the top) even when stable. I can be a wild child.

* Suddenly quitting my job in Taiwan (losing a lot of money) to travel all by myself, in my mid 20s, around Hong Kong and Thailand. Sleeping with a couple guys just two days apart. I would also often put on a pretty wild show in terms of dancing, sometimes dancing until the establishments closed at 3 am. Hours of dancing and being stared at.

* I once made out with an Italian guy on the grassy divider between directions of a multi-lane highway in Taichung, Taiwan.

* I almost jumped off of the Bridge over the River Kwai in Kanchanaburi. Thailand. Not to hurt myself deliberately, but because I was so manic that I took a joke seriously. It wasn't extremely high, but would have been a seriously bad idea. It could have killed me.

There's a lot of so-called "crazy" behavior when manic that is not so funny, especially when you're psychotic. For example, I thought God was coming to kill me. I called 911 screaming and screaming (saying nothing). Then I ran out of the house, locking myself out. Six cops showed up thinking there was a murder happening. When they came to me, I just screamed and screamed. My husband actually showed up soon after. The cops told him I was having an "episode". They knew what was happening. They were actually pretty nice and comforting, considering.

Q: Do you think of yourself as being a confident person, for the most part, when stable?
 
 
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Default Sep 10, 2019 at 12:57 PM
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No, not at all

What's a song you can currently relate to?

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Default Sep 12, 2019 at 09:13 AM
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No, not at all

What's a song you can currently relate to?

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I wanted to bump this thread back to page 1. I am not completely sure how I'd answer about a song I currently relate to. Maybe U2's "Where the Streets Have No Name", but that is actually a bit of a triggering song for me. I rarely listen to it anymore. Long story.

Q: Have you ever experienced a "love at first sight"?
 
 
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Default Sep 12, 2019 at 01:38 PM
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Q: Have you ever experienced a "love at first sight"?
no, never.

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Default Sep 12, 2019 at 01:41 PM
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No. They're all incompetent idiots that can't help me I couldn't give a fukc which I have.

Do you regret the things you did when you were manic and feel guilty about them?
 
 
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Default Sep 12, 2019 at 02:05 PM
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No. They're all incompetent idiots that can't help me I couldn't give a fukc which I have.

Do you regret the things you did when you were manic and feel guilty about them?
Many, many, but not all. As for guilt, I do feel it, but I try not to let it destroy me. I am fairly good at letting some things slide off my back. A few things, however, still cause hurt on occasion.

Q: What is the most delicious thing you ate either recently or ever?
 
 
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Default Sep 15, 2019 at 07:22 AM
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hot, spicy, chicken wings

seriously did they fall from heaven or something

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hot, spicy, chicken wings

seriously did they fall from heaven or something

opposite: most disgusting thing you've ever eaten?
臭豆腐 Chòu dòufu (stinky tofu), which is a fermented tofu popular in China and Taiwan. It's definitely an acquired taste.

Q: If you could up and go anywhere in the world tomorrow (costs not an issue), where would you go?
 
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Default Sep 15, 2019 at 11:13 AM
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seriously did they fall from heaven or something
Nah, they fell from a city called Buffalo in NY state. Being originally an "upstater" (ie., not from NYC), I take a certain vicarious pride in that fact, lol.

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England. And Europe. I've only ever only been to Ireland over that way.

Question: What's the most ridiculous item you've ever bought while manic?

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Default Sep 15, 2019 at 11:36 AM
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I hate fireworks and I am always staying home whenever my wife/daughter goes to see them. However, I am not adversely affected just strongly dislike the firework.
Question; what was your weirdest manic vision?

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Nah, they fell from a city called Buffalo in NY state. Being originally an "upstater" (ie., not from NYC), I take a certain vicarious pride in that fact, lol.

England. And Europe. I've only ever only been to Ireland over that way.

Question: What's the most ridiculous item you've ever bought while manic?
Oh, once I bought a Rolex on time and as soon as I paid off the time, I sold it. worse moove than buying it.

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Default Sep 15, 2019 at 01:49 PM
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thanks innerzone. i'm totally coming to america now (well, I don't like flying, guess I'll have to sail their), but I need me some of those wings

and england isn't as cool as you might think

cold, wet, and... well, english. lol
 
 
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I hate fireworks and I am always staying home whenever my wife/daughter goes to see them. However, I am not adversely affected just strongly dislike the firework.
Question; what was your weirdest manic vision?

flying puppies who ran the country

are you traveling by car today sir?.

boat?

no?, a flying puppy who is also the queen?

cool. okay.

do you like the smell of bacon?
 
 
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Default Sep 16, 2019 at 11:17 PM
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Yes. We have been having bacon sandwiches with homegrown tomatoes the last few weeks and it is delicious.

Are you ready for the season (and weather) to change?

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Default Sep 17, 2019 at 12:15 PM
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Well... I usually get depressed when the autumn comes, so... no. I'm never ready enough.

But I must say that I used to love autumn and winter when I was a child. And it still can be kind of magical for me. The colourful leaves, the bare trees, the snow...

What forced you to seek treatment for your disorder?
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Well... I usually get depressed when the autumn comes, so... no. I'm never ready enough.

But I must say that I used to love autumn and winter when I was a child. And it still can be kind of magical for me. The colourful leaves, the bare trees, the snow...

What forced you to seek treatment for your disorder?
Well, having to get some form of treatment started at age 15, but I wasn't formally diagnosed until I was 32. However, I didn't truly (truly) seek treatment in a very authentic way, until I was 34. I was in a particularly horrible mental health crisis, not that I hadn't been at other times before that. But I was closer to having serious self-harm thoughts than ever before. I was actually serious about driving my car into a tree. That thought wouldn't leave me and I thought that if I did, it would somehow free me. I had also had HR threaten to fire me. Six workmates when to HR to wage formal complaints about me because of my extreme behavior. I had mania with mixed features really bad, and I became very aggressive and even scary. I had also been drinking very heavily for a long time. Each night after work, I would come home and probably drink between six and 10 drinks before falling asleep. The drinking exacerbated the issue.

Q: Who in this world do you think has been the most helpful for you, in terms of helping you manage your mental illness?
 
 
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Default Sep 17, 2019 at 01:09 PM
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I feel so fortunate, because my therapist is helping me cope with mental illness, and helping me more than anyone else in my life has. My life is much more stable and safe.

If you could live in a very small town, would you?

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