JUST TOO FRUSTRATING I am getting off Facebook now. I am just too frustrated with folks who know me, closely, and believe me to now be manic. I have simply tried to give a voice to this illness, and to express its ramifications. The Lyme Disease was an unexpected bump which did indeed push me to the edge of mania. Not every creative person is bipolar, and not every act of creativity stems from illness. I believe that people with Ashbergers- excuse the spelling, they see life like looking at the stars. They see all the stars all at once, but cannot make the connections. They cannot see the constellations because their brains are incapable of making associations. Which is why they do not like metaphors. Now, I have never researched the subject, but after watching a popular TV cable series, that dawned on me when watching an actor portray a victim of that illness. But, when I try to tell people things, or post a video in my car in a car wash- of course, people think that I am once again manic. If I was manic, I would not have been able to sit there and even carry out an intelligible conversation. Yes, I realize that my speech is somewhat rapid, and my songs are sped up recently- but between dealing with a Stalker, and Lyme Disease- that explains the situation. I have never minded putting out my dirty laundry if others might be helped, but it is damn frustrating to have messages pop up from those who know me, and think that I might need to be hospitalized or something like that. I hope folks will understand that I am, and have been, doing the best that I can, and unlike far too many bipolar folks who refuse western treatment because it tends to suppress their creativity, I have never gone off meds, or alternative therapies- and my acute illnesses over the last 8 years- of which I had two, were both due to external circumstances that I could not control. When are WESTERNERS going to stop calling people whose brains function in different ways sick?
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 03:42:14 +0000
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