Quote:
Originally Posted by FuriousGeorge
I have nothing good to say about being manic depressive. It has ruined my life, plain and simple. Glamorizing it is a coping mechanism.
|
I don't think looking at the positives is necessarily glamorizing, though admittedly, in some cases it can be. I would in no way wish bipolar on anyone, and if a cure was offered I would take it. I think, however, having come to the other side of it intact, I can appreciate what I have learned from it.
__________________
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
|