Buddhism has helped me more than meds is just my personal experience, and it only applies to me RIGHT NOW. I really cannot fathom how you can extrapoloate that out to me suggesting others are weak and undisciplined. If that's even where you got it, I'm so confused.

I've tried a lot of different stuff for my messed up brain (depression doesn't even cover everything that is wrong with it), nothing has quote, unquote worked. I may try meds again, I might end up being instituationalized or getting electroshock therapy before this whole thing is over, who knows. Maybe I will end up committing suicide, I don't have a crystal ball.

Yeah, I don't know either. Statistics say I have high change ending up dead with my "untreated" bipolar. (and untreated bipolar wanting to join the UN or some charity to go off to do postconflict assistance at one point? I am a dead chick walking, stastically)...

But you know what? Eff it. I mean, it works for me at the moments. I am comfortable in my own skin. Maybe being saved is not worth it. Maybe I have gone too far, too high and too low to be able to live "normally".

I am alive now... ALIVE to be exact. Feel the history on cobblestone under my gladiator shoes. I enjoy acquiring new knowledge. I am comfortable with being low at times. It is me.

Yes, there are times I wonder what for is all this... but I am not saying there is nothing positive about the lows at all. For me there is light in the darkness.

Maybe there is no normal in me. Maybe I am this, or not at all.

I'm not saying Buddhism is the answer, it's almost funny how much of an oxymoron that would be. I'm just saying it is helping me, and it might help others on this board, and support is supposed to be the point of this board.

yeah, it bothers me that suggesting that you are actually capable seems unsupportive. There are many ways to "heal". I am not the only one who promotes this "comfortable in your own skin despite symptoms" approach. there are blogs on PC that promote that.