{"id":184,"date":"2006-11-19T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T00:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akumaprime.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2014-10-01T16:04:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T16:04:22","slug":"why-part-1-mental-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Why? Part 1 &#8211; Mental Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably the question a lot of people will wonder, ask and make assumptions about. The primary reason is bi-polar disorder. As a psychology major, I recognize this problem in myself. In fact, I self diagnosed it in my teens before it was &#8220;properly&#8221; done by a psychiatrist. I don&#8217;t remember how I knew I had it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, for those of you not well versed in psychological lore, <a title=\"More info\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nimh.nih.gov\/publicat\/bipolar.cfm\">bi-polar disorder<\/a> is a mood disorder that basically involves going from depressed to Really energetic.<a title=\"More info\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bipolar_disorder\"> Wikipedia has a decent entry on it<\/a>. Rather than regurgitate what I&#8217;ve learned about it from books, I&#8217;d rather express it in a first hand account.<\/p>\n<p>My brain is on a roller coaster. I&#8217;ve done a pretty good job of hiding all this from friends btw. I mean sure most people think I&#8217;m strange, but in an aloof, scholarly sort of way. Eccentric might be a better term. People consider me smart, and accept my odd mannerisms as part of that stereotype. (Two points I&#8217;d like to make here. A) I&#8217;m one of the stupidest people I know, a side effect of this illness. B) This is all my perception of the situation. Perhaps people Don&#8217;t consider me smart. But this is how I see the world around me. I hope it is objective.)<\/p>\n<p>During the depressed periods, I simply didn&#8217;t hang out with people. During the manic episodes, I tried not to be too huge a dick (I got better control over this after the teen years).<\/p>\n<p>But how I treat the people around me is only a small effect of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>My brain feels like it&#8217;s on Fire. I am constantly thinking. Have you seen Groundhog&#8217;s Day? Imagine running similar yet slightly different situational analyses ALL the time. It hurts. It&#8217;s emotionally draining and mentally tiresome, both of which make me weak physically.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the Constant thought of suicide. You should kill yourself. KILL yourself, omG I want to DIE, why am I still alive, Kill yourself. Come On man, let&#8217;s just DO it. I know I know, It&#8217;s HARD though. Everyone shut the fuck up. Kill yourself. Kill me, someone. Look we are going to do it, just relax. Kill Yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Seem insane? It is, and it is going on in my head faster than the speed of thought every waking moment.<br \/>\nThose of us with bi-polar disorder are Far more likely to commit suicide. Because of that, I list this illness as the #1 reason WHY I did this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably the question a lot of people will wonder, ask and make assumptions about. The primary reason is bi-polar disorder. As a psychology major, I recognize this problem in myself. In fact, I self diagnosed it in my teens before it was &#8220;properly&#8221; done by a psychiatrist. I don&#8217;t remember how I knew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-is-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}