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>...manic depression is a personality trait
Untreated manic depression has a 20% mortality rate. How many "personality traits" can boast this?
I am manic depressive (bipolar). I can assure you that it is not a personality trait.
I know people who easily get there feelings hurt, or are easily disapointed. That is a personality trait.
Depression, real depression (for me anyway) has little to do with sadness. It is bleakness that never lifts. It is seeing the world in greys (really, not a figure of speech), it is inescapable pain. It is knowing it will never go away. It is knowing that only death will bring relief.
Manic depression has two sides to the illness. In addition to depression is mania. I think most people have an idea of what depression is, but I think fewer people have any idea what mania is.
I also know people who are always energetic, always friendly. The salesman type. This is also a personality trait.
Mania is not a personality trait. At first, mania feels *good*. It is the feeling of spring, of falling in love, and new car smell all rolled into one. Colors are brighter -- computer beige is Kodachrome vivid. The most annoying of noises becomes music. You feel so creative. You are outgoing and witty. You might buy yourself a few treats. You want this feeling to last forever.
Then it changes. Everything becomes faster. People can't understand what you are saying because you talk so fast, and jump topics at random. You can hear everything, in my cube farm I can hear every conversation going on, all without context or meaning. You start spending money on the strangest things.
Then it changes again. Everything becomes faster still. Uncontrollably fast. Dangerously fast. You don't sleep for a week. You write poetry, paint, compose music all at once for several days straight. You drive way too fast. Everything is a blur. You might start hearing voices. You think you could kick God's ass.
Then free fall. You realize you've made a mess of your life (and usually those around you). As you start to pick up the pieces you realize how futile it is, how bleak the world is.
Eventually life becomes normal. You pay your taxes and help the landlady take out her trash.
Several months or a few years go by, then it starts again.
Finally you start medication and therapy and you manage it.
You forgot to mention that the philosophers sit around a big table in the cafe. They spend their time either eating or thinking. Between each philosopher is a chopstick. In order to eat, the philosopher must have both of the chopsticks. If they don't have a good strategy, then they starve.
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> ...manic depression is a personality trait
Untreated manic depression has a 20% mortality rate. How many "personality traits" can boast this?
I am manic depressive (bipolar). I can assure you that it is not a personality trait.
I know people who easily get there feelings hurt, or are easily disapointed. That is a personality trait.
Depression, real depression (for me anyway) has little to do with sadness. It is bleakness that never lifts. It is seeing the world in greys (really, not a figure of speech), it is inescapable pain. It is knowing it will never go away. It is knowing that only death will bring relief.
Manic depression has two sides to the illness. In addition to depression is mania. I think most people have an idea of what depression is, but I think fewer people have any idea what mania is.
I also know people who are always energetic, always friendly. The salesman type. This is also a personality trait.
Mania is not a personality trait. At first, mania feels *good*. It is the feeling of spring, of falling in love, and new car smell all rolled into one. Colors are brighter -- computer beige is Kodachrome vivid. The most annoying of noises becomes music. You feel so creative. You are outgoing and witty. You might buy yourself a few treats. You want this feeling to last forever.
Then it changes. Everything becomes faster. People can't understand what you are saying because you talk so fast, and jump topics at random. You can hear everything, in my cube farm I can hear every conversation going on, all without context or meaning. You start spending money on the strangest things.
Then it changes again. Everything becomes faster still. Uncontrollably fast. Dangerously fast. You don't sleep for a week. You write poetry, paint, compose music all at once for several days straight. You drive way too fast. Everything is a blur. You might start hearing voices. You think you could kick God's ass.
Then free fall. You realize you've made a mess of your life (and usually those around you). As you start to pick up the pieces you realize how futile it is, how bleak the world is.
Eventually life becomes normal. You pay your taxes and help the landlady take out her trash.
Several months or a few years go by, then it starts again.
Finally you start medication and therapy and you manage it.
Is hearing voices part of a personality trait?
You forgot to mention that the philosophers sit around a big table in the cafe. They spend their time either eating or thinking. Between each philosopher is a chopstick. In order to eat, the philosopher must have both of the chopsticks. If they don't have a good strategy, then they starve.
"The scanner can display hidden guns, knives, batteries, digital watches, explosive materials and packages of drugs secreted under clothing."
Digital watches??? What some people will smuggle. Shudder.
You are supposed to feel Braille, not look at it. Turning a blind eye was a good start, though.