Some people manage it just fine. I have a close friend who is well-medicated and you would never guess.
On the flip side, my great-grandmother had it and was institutionalized for life.
It just depends on the person, their access to treatment, their willingness to be treated, and the severity of their particular case.
The symptoms aren’t like Shagnasty’s behavior - it’s usually characterized by an oscillation between periods of extreme depression and periods of mania. During the manic period, people can do extreme things - they get the sense that they can do anything - which might be making extravagant shopping sprees, gambling, or performing dangerous stunts. They might feel invincible. One of the challenges of medicating bipolar is that a lot of people love those manic highs - and can you blame them, considering that the alternative is severe depression?
My poor uncle had schizoaffective disorder - that’s basically bipolar with schizophrenia. His case involved, along with the huge swings from depression to mania, hallucinations and paranoid delusions. He was so out of touch with reality he couldn’t hold down a job, an apartment (he trashed every place in fits of rage) and was banned from several stores. By the time he died, it was severe enough that you didn’t know what he was talking about half the time. A real tragic figure, my uncle. When he died, even his own mother was like, “At least he’s no longer suffering.”
I guess the point is, having a mental illness doesn’t necessarily make you a jerk. There can be a lot of overlap but it doesn’t have to be the case.
From the wording, the advisor in question may have already had tenure. It isn’t shocking to me at all that there exists faculty who behave in this manner. I saw it more than once in my grand total of 3 departments I worked in as a graduate student and fellow. Most of my friends in academics have one or two of these trolls in their departments. This is what you get when you have a department full of little fiefdoms run by people who can’t get fired. I would love for this #metoo movement to start turning over rocks in academics and medicine.
If you keep getting ghosted, there’s probably a very good reason for that.
Bullshit. It wasn’t the “so-called treatment” that caused it, it was the fact that you continued to drink while taking the medication you were prescribed. That was your own dumbass fault, nobody else’s.
That being said, I don’t think you’re bipolar. I do, however, think you have some kind of serious psychological disorder.
You also change your stories more than most people change their socks.
I wasn’t bragging. It was just a fact just like you taking your dog to the vet because you love it.
The inside joke is that everything I say here is true. There are people on this board that know me personally and they aren’t the ones calling bullshit. I may have a personality disorder of some sort but what I say is real. I have done some really crazy and dumb shit in my life and, to be honest, I never plan to stop.
Boredom is just one step closer to death IMO. I am always going to push things as far as I can until they explode in my face and I never intend to change that. Some people like that quality but most people react as badly as a Presbyterian minister. I don’t care because I am incapable of it and I have always been that way. Whatever makes me happy in a given day is the goal within certain constraints.
I can be responsible at many things but you will never catch me in a suburban house with a wife pestering me about a “Honey Do” list. I already tried that and it doesn’t work. I would much rather be Hugh Hefner than Ward Cleaver although I am still pretty far off from the former but getting better at it.
Shaggy, I hate to break it to you, but taking your imaginary date to the vet will only result in the vet referring you to a shrink. Then again, that wouldn’t be a bad thing, seeing as you’re whack-a-doodle.
I have a family full of crazies, some of the stuff they do cuts really close to the knuckle, folks. No one but my older brother ( Viet nam-ptsd) is diagnosed. I have never heard anyone talk like this. I don’t think I have an extremely sheltered lifestyle, but maybe I do. Idk.
It is close to it. I want to thank you for starting it expectopatronum. This is the best Christmas present I could have. My Australian girl and I have formed a pub trivia team but I can’t do that for more than a week or more because of family and holiday obligations. I am trying to pull the Russian poker player out of ready reserve so I sent her a nice message a little while ago. We will have to see how that works but it probably will. There is also someone at work that I really want and we do stuff together but I was warned about sex scandals because so many people have been fired for it already so I steer clear of that and treat her as a true friend and I very protective of her.
Merry Christmas to everyone! I hope you all have a great holiday season and non-boring life but we all know that isn’t going to happen. Only a few of us have intelligence and none of the sense god gave a goose simultaneously. It makes a wild ride but it is fun and I have few regrets.
Shagnutzy is trolling the board, loving every minute of the attention he’s getting from those feeding him. He’s committing board suicide because it’s bringing him attention that he doesn’t have to pay for.
I am promise you, I am not a troll. Most of my life is boring bullshit but I don’t write about that. When I decide I want some excitement and someone else does too, it is on. I have plans to go skydiving with female and male coworkers in Newport, RI in the spring plus many other things. We ran up a $3000 tab at restaurant a month ago with more to come. I do all kinds all kinds of dumb shit. It doesn’t always work out well but is always better than having a sedate and mundane life.
You only only have one life to live. You don’t need to live it wondering what might have happened sitting on the couch watching network TV. That is pathetic. Make it happen. That is what I do. If you have anyone has a dumb idea that sounds fun, I have the money to make sure it will happen. Most people think it is a joke until I show them the paid tickets and force them to go.
I know you didn’t necessarily mean me personally, but speaking for me personally, I can only do the grr rawr thing for so long and I just don’t have the stamina anymore so I revert to poking with sticks.
You may not be a troll Shags in that you’re sincere about everything you say but you are definitely enjoying every nanosecond of the attention. What happened to page one Shags who said he wasn’t going to “respond to crazy”?
There’s an old saying about wrestling with pigs. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it. Pitting a narcissist is the same thing. Hell, he even says it himself.
So all you stupid motherfuckers feeding this narcissist are playing right into his hands. You are spanking him, thinking it is a punishment, while ignoring the fact that this spanking is actually giving him a huge erection. If you really want to piss Shag off, then the only way to do that is to ignore him and let this thread die.
Or you can keep poking him with sticks and keep ignoring the fact that he’s getting off on it. Your call.
