Many people also don't understand the difference between a chemical imbalance and personallity dissorders. Both can have similar results and even be caused by some similar situations. A chemical imbalance occurs when certain neurotransmiters are either blocked or not doing their job in the brain. The cause can be diet, lifestyle, drug abuse, genetics, or lack of personal self worth. This can lead to feelings of saddness, anger, anxiety, utter despair and even lead to self destructive behavior, like cutting yourself. In most cases people grow out of their depression. A change in lifestyle by finding hobbies, religion, a job or diet and physical work as well as an end to negative influences- drugs or bad friends can help reverse the effects of a chemical imbalance. I would mention the use of anti-depressants but I don't like drugs, any drugs, used as a mask. Take away the drug and what have you? The same depressed person stuck in a rut because they choose drugs over lifestyle changes.
A personallity dissorder can stem from childhood. It can be caused by many many things. Including genetics. But I think abuse tends to be the most common cause. At least in my case my manic depression is related to being neglected and mentally/physically abused. I don't need to go into detail but I can say that if I had not been removed from that atmosphere I would have died. Not that I might have but I would have died. Being so young I was in a "failure to thrive" catagory. I had no personal desire to really live at all. See somebody who is bi-polar probably went through some underlying conditionings that established behavorial problems. These conditionings tend to be like love/hate things. Somebody who would normally show approval or compassion instead has spourts that convey anything from shouting to full out beatings. This repition of "love/hate" behavior has an impact on the younger undeveloped mind. As the mind grows along with these treatments it builds within itself a dualism within the frame of the personallity. One doesn't form new personallities (except in extreme cases) like a person with MPD might but rather their personallity begins to display similar bi-polar behaviors conditioned in the person. The mind becomes confussed when placed in a love/hate situation for an extended period of time and as reaction the personallity of the self begins to change as a twisted means of dealing with the situation.
Why do I know so much about this? Because I've gone through years of theropy. Like most of my younger life. This includes physcial thearopy as well. I used to stutter and had to relearn how to walk and was afraid of dark places until I was about 10. I was thoroughly F (IMG:
style_emoticons/default/censored.gif) ed up. I am personally diagnosed with PTSD and bi-polar disorder. And this has had very big impact on how I am today. I'm very reclusive in social settings. Nor do I comprehend social games like flirtting and what not and I don't trust people. But the main issue is in my tendency to be very bi-polar. On minute by minute baised I can go from a normal mellow kind of person to somebody very dark, angery, hopeless and perceivably disturbed. Unless one really knows me, encountering me in such a state of mind I would not doubt that one would consider me disturbed. I don't think I really am but I do have a personallity dis-order. Not a simple chemical imbalance that will ever go away. So thats my 15 minutes of me time.
Am I indigo or violet?
This post has been edited by Acid09: Jun 23 2005, 03:29 PM
Indigo Children, continuing from a previous conversation.
Zahaqiel Indigo Children Apr 3 2005, 11:07 PM
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