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I'm having a great day and things are good. To Wow, I'm at a really weird low. It's called a mood swing. It's called a mood swing. Dancing around. I'm getting [ __ ] done. I'm manic. [ __ ] I'm manic right now. That's what's going on.
You keep using the word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
From 1990 till today, the prevalence of bipolar has risen by 60%. And that isn't because it was so stigmatizing in the 2000s to go to a therapist. Already then, everyone had a therapist. It's because we're recognizing everything that isn't bipolar. Bipolar used to mean that you had episodes of mania and manic psychosis and periods of normal, normal mood and then periods of deep depressions.
This went viral for its supposed great description of mania. Now she's just talking. Literally have decided that like I want to be a singer. So now she's trying to portray really positive emotions because that's what they think mania is, just unconditional positive emotion. I want to get guitar lessons cuz I have a beautiful uh acoustic guitar that I'd want to learn how to play. I used to play piano when I was younger and I'm very musically inclined. Right then I can get singing lessons. In a very quick.
A proper mania is uninterrupted speech to the point where if they're interrupted, they get angry. I once got a glass of water thrown at me in a session with a proper manic person because uh I I laughed at what I thought was a joke and that upset them. So listen to her speech. She she's coherent from beginning to end. It's still tethered to reality and it makes sense. She's just speaking a little bit too fast.
I and I have like a I have a good decent voice already. Like don't sound bad, you know? I can really I mean, okay, that was bad. All right, never mind. But be famous cuz like I feel like literally I'm destined to be famous. I lit I feel it like I have every. That's what someone who's trying to sound grandiose thinks grandiosity is. As you see, uh, she doesn't jump from "I'm going to save the world" and this is because I have a degree in um ceramics and this ceramics is is what's going to change the fabric of the soil in the earth and that's really important because that would be something a manic person would say. So to me, that was much more in line with histrionicism than being manic.
As you can see here, this might might be an actor. I'm not sure. Uh, but in any case, it displays very well what I'm talking about and what these other these girls' reels tried to portray but failed. You can see he's he's incoherent. He's not really in the room. And what's really important that he it doesn't really matter who he's talking to. He you you can't interrupt him from his train of thought. Um, it's not context dependent. It's not a conversation.
Uh, show my teeth. Okay. Shoot. What do you want to know? I'll tell you all about how to cure the sick. You know what makes them sick. Now, I'm going to tell you how to cure them. First of all, do away with the electric shock. It interferes with the abstract.
This is proper grandiosity. You tell I'll tell you how to cure it. Not going to think I'm going to be famous one day. I'll tell you how to save the world. I have the answer and you can tell that he really means it.
Loes, bring back the metrosol, but fatten them up with meat. The muscle, not the fat, the muscle. Plenty of meat and liver. Mostly liver, meat, fish, eggs, all your dairy products. But don't.
And they'll get stuck in these sex mish feet. It's very typical. This and this and that and then it's like this and they'll repeat themselves or they're they're they're stuck in their minds. They're not really present. They can't if you were to sort of stop him and ask him, he wouldn't be able to adjust to you or respond in kind. Um, and that's where it differs from these uh these these girls who say they're bipolar and they're they're actually just hysteric because they'll adjust to the environment. Well, you can tell this guy couldn't if he tried.
But don't mix the milk with the meat. Go back to the Jewish dietary laws. Then you give him the metrosol. Three treatments and I was all right. I had three electric shocks. It made me crazy. Now, contrast this to uh this girl right here who's basically harassing ambulance personnel. She adjusts to the envir. Hysteria is con text dependent.
Raise your hand if you're ugly.
Victoria, put the phone away.
Victoria.
This to me is the sexual harassment typical of of the borderline sort of sex sexual way of being. Now, watch what happens. She responds to who is speaking. Uh, she escalates. She pivots and performs.
Guys, raise your hand.
We got to leave the.
I'm getting.
If you guys tease me, I'm [ __ ] suing you.
And there comes the hysteria where she's screaming in response to something they did. It's called psychosis because of the loss of reality. It's not simply about having so many positive emotions so intensely uh that you want to go to a party like this woman apparently thinks mania is all about. Going to a party and feeling really good is not a psychiatric disorder. They're the manic are known for their risky behavior. They'll call call you up one day and suddenly be in a different country because they got on a plane with a stranger. Like listen to Kim Kardashian explains really well what it's like to live with someone who who's manic.
You I mean, I would like come home and we had like five Lamborghinis and I'd come home and they'd all be gone. Somewhere along the way, they have romanticized being manic, which is really a very debilitating disease. Just listen to this girl describe having been manic. And these are all, you know, they these are all officially diagnosed uh bipolar patients.
Really enjoying it. I feel like it's really easy to get addicted to that feeling because when you manic, you've got all this, you've got all this energy, you feel really self-confident. Um, you're super productive. And.
What she's describing is the being addicted to the dopamine rush of having positive emotions. I don't know what they think mood is. They're so bad at emotional regulation that they get completely thrown on a loop. As soon as they're sad and as soon as they're happy, they're like, "What is this? I got to do this again."
It's just like this sense of well-being. And when you're in it, I feel like for me, you're in this kind of lucid, dissociative state where you can't remember ever feeling any different and you're just so elated that you can't imagine. When bipolar patients sort of wake up from mania, they're embarrassed. The first thing they think is, "Who did I alienate this time?" And they very often don't remember a lot at all. But what she's describing that she wants to feel like that as as soon as possible. Uh-uh. This is more like it.
I would very quickly get the impression that I could walk into a party and that anybody I wanted I could go home with. And it was a very dangerous emotion to have or a dangerous feeling to have.
It's out of her character to do something like that. She understands the implications of what she has done. Accumulated with me dancing in a fountain pretty much naked and getting a lot of attention for that obviously and being taken to a hospital against my will. When I came back down again, I couldn't believe the mess that I created. The thing that helped me is just heartbreaking. You can tell that she she's embarrassed. She she wishes this wasn't the case as opposed to this girl. Nobody believes you're bipolar until you have a manic episode totally freaking you out in front of everyone. A manic episode isn't something that just happens in an evening or an hour just be when you're in front of other people who says, "Oh, wow. You must really have it." She's looking for a diagnosis that'll give her status in a friend group where a mental disorder gives you victimhood status.
Back in the 1950s, the prevalence rate of bipolar disorder was 0.4%. And by the end of the '90s, it was 6.9. The goal here is moral laundering of what we think is a moral judgment on female behavior. This is a much more palatable diagnosis um than, you know, immutable personality. This is a story of neurotransmitters, something that's completely outside of your control and can only be handled with medication. And proof of this lies in how the diagnostic criteria have expanded with every addition with every revision of the DSM uh to include more women. And if you were in doubt before, the final proof lies in the rapid cycling bipolar disorder diagnosis. That is the newest edition.
Hey Steph, is it true that there's a rapid cycling type of bipolar disorder? What is that? Yeah, I'll go ahead and explain it. So, bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that deals with extreme mood swings, but a rapid cycling type of bipolar disorder is whenever they experience those mood swings really rapidly. Okay, so it's just like normal mood swings. What does rapid cycling mean? It means that instead of having a longer period of your highs and lows, the manic and depressive episodes, people with rapid cycling bipolar disorder will basically experience them in shorter intervals. Your mood could swing between days, weeks, or even hours sometimes. That sounds really tough. Can you.
Also called mood swings or emotional dysregulation, which is the hallmark of borderline personality disorder. It is absolutely impossible to distinguish this from borderline personality disorder. And that is the point. That's not just a side effect that we have to that is exactly the goal. And clinicians state so themselves. They don't like this. They don't like the borderline personality disorder diagnosis because they think it judges female behavior unfairly. So they've done this, I think, on purpose.
The other tempting thing for this these girls, they talk about it a they talk about triggers a lot. So, this plays perfectly into this whole I want to be a victim thing because uh they focus on the switching. You talk about switching in bipolar, which means when you start to switch over to mania and with actual manic people, you can tell I had a patient once who was always very innoc because they have longer periods of normal moods where they're, you know, you can't tell them from other people. And he was very agreeable, very polite. And he came in and u and he he would always come in and sit down, you know, is this okay? Hey, may I have some water? Is this okay if I put this here? And then one day he came in and just turned on the light. And that was just very offputting for because I knew knew him well by then. But it was just completely out of character. He came in and just turn it was we had an 8:00 in the morning appointment and so everything was dark. I was still setting things up and he just turns on the light and it fine, you can do it. But it was just very out of character and that would I and that is when my my hackles rose because I thought uhoh this is very he just sort of makes himself comfortable and that was actually him switching over to a mania and these girls they have completely misunderstood what that is. They read it in the lens that they want to read it, which is, um, I want the world to accommodate to my preferences because of my narcissistic traits. And so, um, they use this as a, oh, I don't like that. Oh, I don't like the bright lights and can you do this because I'm bipolar and I might be switching. It might trigger me.
Random things that happened when I finally got medicated for rapid cycling bipolar. I used to have a six sense for any tiny little lights that were on in a room I was trying to sleep in. Even if my eyes were closed, I swear I could see tiny little lights like that through my eyelids. No longer a bother. I used to hate laying on my left side. Sometimes I just could not handle it. I chocked it up to a sensory sensitivity, but after I got on meds, I found out your heart is not supposed to constantly be beating so hard that you feel it against the mattress under you. Absolutely disgusting feeling. Hated it.
I mean, it I'm sorry that I'm I'm sorry that I'm laughing. I'm sorry. It It just just gets me every time because what she's describing is just normal neuroticism. I don't like my heart's beating just cuz she's nervous. She's nervous and she doesn't want to go to sleep. And you know, I when I'm stressed, I I'm my heart's also beating when I'm lying in bed. And if you're, you know, if you're not overweight, you will feel that through. It's it's so ridiculous. And and the and the worst thing to know is that they're officially diagnosed. So they're sitting with clinicians talking about this and you just know that the clinicians are going, "Oh, yeah, yeah, it's the light." And yeah, of course, cuz you'll switch and you have to be really careful and you have to tell everyone that, you know, you have this so they shouldn't do this and they shouldn't do that and they should be be really patient and careful with you. You just know that this is happening.
Rapid cycling with bipolar will never feel normal and it will never look normal to anyone else. At least that's what it feels like. I don't even know sometimes when the shift starts from like I'm having a great day and things are good to wow, I'm at a really weird low. It's called a mood swing. It's called a mood swing.
And I wasn't like this like 10 minutes ago. It can be little thoughts or little triggers that all of a sudden like I'm spiraling. I'm going down. Internal critic is like winning so intense. It's so exhausting. It it like flips like that for me sometimes in a day. A couple times.
Couple times. A couple of times a day. That's not rapid cycling bipolar disorder. That's a failure of emotional dysregulation that we have laundered for you into something that you can brandish like a weapon. The overlapping symptoms with hypomomanic episodes and personality disorder. The overlap is impulsivity, angry outbursts, irritability, mood liability, mood liability, and affective dysregulation. What What is left? I ask you, what is left to distinguish that from a borderline personality disorder? A nose ring, which all of these the girls in these bipolar videos have, or uh self harm. Self harm typically happens in um in a manic episode. Negative self-image. Uh identity disturbance is in bo borderline personality criteria the the criterionist for borderline and that's indistinguishable for from neuroticism which hypomomanic episode which the depressive episodes have in bipolar. They have made it deliberately impossible to distinguish these two disorders and it cannot be described in any other way than a moral laundering.