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"You don't know" is damn straight. Thinking mania can be controlled like an on-off switch. Why even bother posting?

• IggleSniggle 2y ago
  Obviously I don't think it can be turned on-off, why would you even think that I was suggesting that? It's just easy for me to imagine these scenarios triggering mania in me whether I wanted it to or not, and I don't think I'm that unusual, that's all.
  • nullindividual 2y ago
    No, that's not how [hypo]mania works. You can 'imagine' all you want, but thinking that a specific scenario or time is when [hypo]mania 'lights up' is flat out incorrect. And someone who experiences mania indicates an uncontrolled illness. Depression and mania prevent normal functioning. You seem to believe an unmedicated bipolar individual is a functional individual with some inkling of rational thought that could 'go into battle with no fear'. If you don't know, don't post. And you don't know.
    • IggleSniggle 2y ago
      Your statements about what you know about me and my lived experiences, and my level of knowledge of those experiences, is bizarrely cruel. Please do not do this. Please don't try to silence me just because those things don't match up with your own experiences. I don't know where you are getting the notion that I am saying that mania is rational or controllable. I was speculating based on personal experience around high stress situations. I do not understand why you are choosing to attack the notion that there could be evolutionarily advantageous benefits conferred upon the group. Edit: we agree that I am speculating. I disagree with you that I have no right to speculate
      • nullindividual 2y ago
        Your speculation is what is wrong with forums. It's misinformation that will be re-quoted time and time again.