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Originally Posted by apfei
I have euphoric manias but i would happily press a button to be healthy. My manias lead to bad financial and romantic decisions. The good feeling is not worth bankruptcy or heartbreak. Personally, i think most bipolars would do away with their mood swings if possible. Why are we all struggling with meds, after all? Most of us go to great lengths to squash the episodes. Not sure what bipolars Fry is talking about when he says we are happy with our disorder. Why are we all here at Psych Central? Because we want to celebrate our bipolar? No, because we want to get rid of it! Absurd!
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I agree with you about the fact that I do not enjoy the mania one bit. Personally for me I see no benefit from it, let alone the effect I have on my loved ones. I just watched Part 1 of his documentary, and there are several celebrities he has interviewed. I think these people are happy with there disorder because they believe if they had not had the disease they would not be who they are today. Then at the end of Part 1 he talks to this lady that was a successful lawyer and a ton of other things and the disease has made her completely crippled, and she states that wished she never had the disease. Now there is a woman who is living in our world, the real world, not a celebrities world. I'm planning on watching Part 2 and see how this turns out.