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THE ARROGANT VULGARITY
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JOURNAL # 41 before me stands doors
to people I thought I knew
behind me stands only holes
in which I know I must sometime
fall into
and people have
'The Arrogant Vulgarity'
to then claim that
I am being manic
well if you were caught between
little else but
doors and holes
it's a safe bet to say
you'd likely strike others too
as being a bit manic yourself
all the world seems to be
an exotic watch dog
with a questionable hidden
agenda
tucked beneath their
polite society collar
so why not in turn
just go and fetch yourself
and your fiercest neighbor
a well deserved bone
then take a much needed
nap together
beneath the nearest quiet
shade tree
because life is often
utter bliss
to the lower thinking
of any unaware species..................
(July 8, 2011 1054am)
Hi! Manic and depressed/
Hi! Manic and depressed/ depression terms are generously used nowadays without the users considering what it means. In the the medical jargon, manic or depressive states can only be proven against a standard diagnostic criteria doctors use to be sure that someone is indeed manic or depressed. Excited,happy, joyful, blissful, or cheerful moods to the less sensitive are deemed manic without basis. Even when you apply a a new eyeshadow which was different from what you usually wear would start a talk about being manic. Talking excitedly or loudly could be misconstrued as being manic. Personally, to he'll with unfounded terminologies they use! To say the word manic is easier because maybe they ran out of appropriate adjectives to describe your mood?
Depressed/depression is also misused. Normal sadness and griefs are considered depressive by lay people. If they have seen a real depressed person who qualified under diagnostic criteria, I am sure they will stop using it as well. I wider why people hasbto be medical when there are a lot of nice adjectives to exactly describe one's mood.
I am sorry that the term manic annoyed you. I too get a lot of the very misused manic word. When it really gets to me I'd politely ask which type of bipolar do I really belong? The type 1 or type 2. At least that will give them something to read about and learn something too.
Shye
“ Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."
~ Rumi
your medical field training at work here.........
beautifully clear explanation........... I have always been blessed to get very smart friends...... thanks Shye............miss you, sincerely, Melissa