Originally Posted by
RedNoodle
Have you heard some of the things Fury has come out with, never mind some of his antics? He's another classless **** who uses mental health issues to try and justify him being a massive ****. It's what I like to call 'The Ronnie O'Sullivan effect'.
Well, I have bipolar 1, and PTSD and I've worked out what all the geniuses in mental health care have been unable to
As you will be aware with bipolar 1 you have less frequent episodes, but when you have them, they last longer and you can have mixed episodes in which you're experiencing both mania and depressive symptoms. You can have years between episodes
What they don't understand and what I've only had the epiphany of tonight is that the severity of my PTSD triggers cause by 4 years of sustained abuse and it being subconscious as opposed to conscious, means several things
Exposure to environments that will trigger my PTSD is a very bad idea, as my PTSD being triggered triggers another major bipolar episode when kept away from those environments I might otherwise not have one
Something 'snapped' in my Manc episode, meaning I am actually very dangerous when my PTSD resulting from it is triggered
As someone who has long practiced more sophisticated methods of CBT to correct my behaviour for years, I know from having tried to do things I usually did to 'recover' after a major episode and that now triggering the PTSD and another major episode, that CBT won't ever work for my condition
So I am a real problem for them, they shouldn't medicate me constantly, because with bipolar 1 you can have years between episodes, CBT won't work and has only served to trigger more major episodes, but if they don't medicate me, then I'm not officially mentally ill because the system is an absolute nonsense and if I am medicated when not having an episode, I can't do anything anyway, it can actually then bring on an episode through making me depressed
"If Everton were playing at the bottom of my garden, i'd close the curtains”
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