Jul 9, 2022 01:49 AM
(This post was last modified: Jul 9, 2022 02:35 AM by Magical Realist.)
Quote:Sorry to hear about your mother - did she get help or did she kind'a (edited) have to fight through it on her own?
A mix of both. Over the years she had to battle the onset of the manias which occurred every few years and became so bad she had to be committed. She went thru many medications, many with terrible side effects, and eventually found some that worked. It was a time when nobody knew what bipolarism was. It was just called a nervous breakdown, and then manic depressive. But she did get some relief in her final years. Live and learn I guess.
(Jul 9, 2022 12:01 AM)Syne Wrote:(Jul 8, 2022 04:37 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: When me and my family were Baptists, my mother had her first manic episode from bipolar disorder. She actually stood up in church during the sermon and proclaimed that Judas was her brother. Her belief, contrary to the eternal damnation doctrine of the church, was that nobody was going to hell and that everyone would be saved. She later believed the sheer joy of this realization contributed to her mental breakdown. It wouldn't surprise me. The extremes we go to to escape ideological programming can be as taxing and destructive as the delusion itself.
So the mental illness runs in the family. Perhaps not the best yardstick of the average person's reaction to religion.
Are you saying I'm bipolar and have no right to discuss my experience with religion?