Depression Tribe

I was diagnosed with bipolar at age 17 and it definitely changed my life. I had been previously labeled as ADHD/ADD and had experienced some bouts with depression once puberty hit, but at the time of my diagnosis, I was no longer taking any medication for either of those. To have someone talking to you about taking medication for the rest of your life while totally readjusting your sleep patterns at that age was well, daunting.

The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them.
----Marilyn Monroe

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
(Last Chance to See)

----Douglas Adams

Suffice it to say, it took a longass time to find a strategy that worked for me. At this point, I've been on the same regimen for 2 years and that's something no-one, including some really smart and wonderful medical people, ever thought would happen. Right now, I'm finishing up a bachelor's in neuroscience in preparation for going into the field of psychiatry and/or psychology.

the brain and all related topics, war resistance, foreign languages, traveling The World, books in general, anti-Bush material, the desert, tyler perry, evolution, casablanca lilies, etymology, glass-bottomed boats, the smell of old books and linseed oil, summer in the south, laughing until I can't breathe, chile season in New Mexico, pinon fires

ignorance, mayonnaise, unwillingness to learn new things, denial, homophobia, small yappy dogs, abuse of power, busywork, excessive bureaucracy

*tori amos*, led zeppelin, nina simone, the new york dolls, cream, sonic youth, louis XIV, she wants revenge, kings of leon, ghoultown, chopin, marvin gaye, george clinton, the who, bjork, otis redding, tricky, pj harvey, billie holiday, outkast, the kinks, david bowie, leonard cohen, smokey robinson, pat benatar, lupe fiasco, etta james, erik satie, puccini, heart, stevie wonder, NIN, portishead, al green, johnny cash, INXS, joni mitchell, dead can dance, ben e. king, mos def, Prince, sam cooke, mos def, old school soul, john coltrane, elvis costello, liz phair, matt nathanson, miles davis, patti smith, peaches, rufus wainwright.

and Authors.

The Odyssey, Paradise Lost, The Oresteia, Night, The Female Brain, Montaigne, To Kill a Mockingbird, Beloved, Othello, Francesca Lia Block, Mark Twain, Jane Eyre, Harry Potter, N. Scott Momaday, Neil Gaiman, Anna Akhmatova, Pablo Neruda, Isabel Allende, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Virginia Woolf, Like Water For Chocolate, Leo Tolstoy, Gabriel Lorca, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Jeanette Winterson, Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Harold and the Purple Crayon, The Ant Bully, The Name of the Rose, Anna Karenina, Bertrand Russell, Margaret Atwood, Camus, Phillip Pullman, Lysistrata, Lolita, every single art and photography book I can get my hands on (to name a few).

juno, guess who's coming to dinner?, the dark crystal, woman on top, Spirited Away, to kill a mockingbird, labyrinth, the smokers, chocolat, knocked up, frida, like water for chocolate, heathers, kinky boots, the governess, tommy boy, the whole nine yards, yellow submarine, dead poets' society, moulin rouge, the birdcage, the departed, goodfellas, tyler perry, walk the line, what's love got to do with it?, indiana jones


I still haven't seen forrest gump. deal with it.

art, music, philosophy, reading, ancient greek, cars and motorcycles (older and/or fast), psychology and psychiatry, old pianos, cooking from scratch, medicine, history, photography. painting, dictionaries and lexicons, anti-Bush material, foreign languages

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