Bipolar is an emotional condition, not a behavioral one.

WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:10.710 Welcome back to bipolar style, the podcast for bipolar people and those who love 2 00:00:10.869 --> 00:00:17.469 them. Join US online at bipolar stylecom and now use your host, Johnny 3 00:00:17.589 --> 00:00:26.539 motion. Thank you for tuning in and downloading the podcast. Hopefully you subscribe. 4 00:00:27.260 --> 00:00:31.140 That way you'll know every time I upload a new one. You'll know 5 00:00:31.300 --> 00:00:35.850 right away. So if you haven't subscribed in Itunes, for example, just 6 00:00:35.969 --> 00:00:41.329 go in there and push the button says subscribe. Cool. Wow, what 7 00:00:41.530 --> 00:00:46.729 a day, I man. Lots happened. So just to recap, obviously, 8 00:00:48.250 --> 00:00:52.679 by the time you've heard this, there was a mass shooting in America 9 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:59.159 again, some guy machine down a bunch of people watching a concert, and 10 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:03.909 so, yeah, it was what do you say about that? Is beside 11 00:01:03.909 --> 00:01:10.430 the obvious. So here's the here's the thing, man. So when you 12 00:01:10.590 --> 00:01:15.269 have bipolar disorder you really sensitive to things. In fact, that's kind of 13 00:01:15.349 --> 00:01:19.739 what bipolar disorder seems like. is to me. It's like our brain is 14 00:01:19.939 --> 00:01:23.819 like a really finely tuned scientific instrument, but you can't actually take it outside 15 00:01:25.299 --> 00:01:30.819 in the environment because as the dynamic forces of NHU will wreck it. So 16 00:01:30.019 --> 00:01:34.049 has to be kind of BABIED. You kind of have to baby the bipolar 17 00:01:34.170 --> 00:01:38.730 brain. I guess it's a good way to put it, but when you 18 00:01:38.930 --> 00:01:44.090 watch the news or a screen of any sort, through your handheld or your 19 00:01:44.170 --> 00:01:51.239 tablet or computer whatever, eventually those messages will sneak through and affect your emotions. 20 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:53.680 So you don't even have to go outside or leave the house at all. 21 00:01:55.159 --> 00:02:00.680 Bad things can come to a bipolar person through the screen. So beware 22 00:02:00.430 --> 00:02:07.549 the Pixels, especially times like these, when there's a mass shooting. Turn 23 00:02:07.670 --> 00:02:12.430 off, unplug, go outside, hug a tree, pick some grass, 24 00:02:12.590 --> 00:02:15.590 you know, walk the dog, take a bike ride, just get away 25 00:02:15.629 --> 00:02:19.819 from your screens, just put your phone down, walk away from the House. 26 00:02:21.340 --> 00:02:27.939 Just strongly encourage that because, like I said, we're very sensitive to 27 00:02:28.099 --> 00:02:31.009 feelings and emotions. And, Oh boy, here's another weird thing I noticed 28 00:02:31.050 --> 00:02:38.849 on twitter today, especially. So a lot of people accuse the the killer 29 00:02:39.050 --> 00:02:43.849 of being like a maniac or, you know, just basically throwing around a 30 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:51.800 bunch of ablest terms that describe different psychiatric and Mental Health Disorders, so that, 31 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:58.000 on top of having to deal with the emotions of the videos you've seen 32 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:02.469 and the audio you've heard, then we see through social media that people are, 33 00:03:04.069 --> 00:03:08.710 you know, dragging people are similar to us into the mix that, 34 00:03:09.069 --> 00:03:15.300 then you you're I'm type of person anyways. That's kind of bound to to 35 00:03:15.419 --> 00:03:19.580 defend oneself. And, man, don't get me on twitter during these times, 36 00:03:19.620 --> 00:03:23.620 especially in my personal account, I just rage directly at the president. 37 00:03:23.379 --> 00:03:27.930 Don't care. What is there to lose? We have to stand up for 38 00:03:28.009 --> 00:03:32.770 ourselves. And a day like today where someone snaps, I don't know if 39 00:03:32.810 --> 00:03:37.250 that's even the right term. Can People just snap? The Guy didn't have 40 00:03:37.289 --> 00:03:45.319 a history of mental disorders and Sol a very mysterious kind of situation. Anyway, 41 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:47.919 I don't want people that are, for example, bipolar to be lumped 42 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:53.599 in with people that that snap, totally different disorders. One of my pet 43 00:03:53.680 --> 00:04:00.710 peeves is when people hashtag bipolar as Hashtag bpd, which is actually a totally 44 00:04:00.750 --> 00:04:10.060 different kind of condition called borderline personality disorder, and that's treated a completely different 45 00:04:10.060 --> 00:04:15.060 way. That's a behavioral issue, not an emotional issue. By polar disorder 46 00:04:15.139 --> 00:04:19.220 is simply kind of a disregulation of your emotions. That's it, and we 47 00:04:19.300 --> 00:04:24.490 don't act whan, we're not killers. A lot of times, if you're 48 00:04:24.490 --> 00:04:28.730 having a conversation with the person in public and somehow the subject comes up, 49 00:04:29.889 --> 00:04:35.370 kind of common conversation and you tell them you have bipolar disorder, they take 50 00:04:35.410 --> 00:04:40.920 a step back and give you the funny look like all of a sudden, 51 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:46.959 now you aren't axe murderer and we're not. We're just emotional. Somebody asked 52 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:50.560 what it's like to feel like and it really is. In my mind's kind 53 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:57.110 of like being tigger from the Winnie the Pooh books, like being tigger and 54 00:04:57.670 --> 00:05:01.189 eat or at the same time. Now that's what it feels like. So 55 00:05:01.269 --> 00:05:05.790 you can imagine if it's, you know, bipolar person simply has a wide 56 00:05:05.790 --> 00:05:10.980 range of sensitive emotions. We're not going to go out there and kill anybody. 57 00:05:11.019 --> 00:05:14.019 In fact, when we see killings go on in the news media, 58 00:05:15.100 --> 00:05:18.459 we kind of like entrench, we kind of like crawl back into the bed, 59 00:05:18.579 --> 00:05:21.610 but sometimes you can't. Sometimes you have to go out into the world 60 00:05:23.170 --> 00:05:27.730 and and deal with it. So that was one of those days today, 61 00:05:27.730 --> 00:05:30.769 kind of stressful, I guess. If I had to give my my day 62 00:05:30.850 --> 00:05:34.839 and number and give it like a four out of ten, one to ten, 63 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:38.879 I'd give to day for you know, and I was going to tell 64 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:46.800 a story about my sister Katie, but then all of this killing happened and 65 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:53.350 I don't really want the two stories to lose effect, you know what I 66 00:05:53.470 --> 00:05:56.589 mean. So I'm going to just let that sit for a minute and let 67 00:05:56.670 --> 00:06:02.149 people process the mass killing in Las Vegas and I will tell my sister's story 68 00:06:02.470 --> 00:06:06.740 in a couple of days after that kind of passes in. Well, at 69 00:06:06.779 --> 00:06:12.379 least a freshness does. It's funny we noticed in the social media streams, 70 00:06:12.420 --> 00:06:15.620 you know, one one hour it's Las Vegas shooting, then the next hour 71 00:06:15.740 --> 00:06:20.129 it's Tom Petty dies. So it really is like the social media or the 72 00:06:20.290 --> 00:06:26.730 media in general, is always pushing the tragedy of the hour. And just 73 00:06:27.170 --> 00:06:30.610 when you're when you're out there on social media or watching TV or even listening 74 00:06:30.689 --> 00:06:34.639 to the radio or whatnot, just be aware that everyone has an agenda and 75 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:40.360 sometimes it's just best to disconnect for a minute and take care of yourself. 76 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:45.839 And and really I just I don't want the whole show to be about negative 77 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:49.389 things. It's just, I don't know, feels like a big weight was 78 00:06:49.470 --> 00:06:56.430 set upon us overnight and now that you know, kind of wake up with 79 00:06:56.910 --> 00:07:01.180 that feeling of dread once again more killing. Was swiping through my flip book 80 00:07:01.220 --> 00:07:05.300 in the morning and I see just these four hundred plus Mike. What for? 81 00:07:05.579 --> 00:07:09.339 How's that even possible? How do you? How do you shoot four 82 00:07:09.459 --> 00:07:15.769 hundred people, five hundred plus people? Now almost six hundred people got shot 83 00:07:15.490 --> 00:07:23.129 by one dude. Wow, a fenced in crowded people from thirty two floors 84 00:07:23.170 --> 00:07:27.970 up in the air. That's sick, sick. I don't know if I'm 85 00:07:27.970 --> 00:07:34.720 going to leave this in the show, Jeez. So, Hey, here's 86 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:39.319 the tip. Look into this while you're out there surfing the Internet, if 87 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:42.759 you must, just to get off social media. I saw a headline. 88 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:46.029 Looked into a little bit, and this is kind of trippy. That says 89 00:07:46.149 --> 00:07:50.709 they've done some studies now that indicate the shorter you sleep, the shorter your 90 00:07:50.870 --> 00:07:55.790 life. That's easy way to remember it written. You know, the shorter 91 00:07:55.870 --> 00:08:00.139 your sleep, the shorter your life. So get lots of sleep, get 92 00:08:00.180 --> 00:08:03.899 your full eight hours of sleep. I know when your bipolar, the doctor's 93 00:08:05.180 --> 00:08:09.100 pretty much gaged your mental health by your sleep. First thing they always ask 94 00:08:09.339 --> 00:08:13.410 is how's your sleep? What are you sleeping and you kind of tell them 95 00:08:13.449 --> 00:08:16.290 when you're sleeping, what your hours are and if you getting enough, and 96 00:08:16.529 --> 00:08:20.449 if you're not, they'll give you some heavier drugs to make sure you do 97 00:08:20.649 --> 00:08:24.209 get enough sleep. So they're always trying to tame the mania through sleep, 98 00:08:24.730 --> 00:08:28.360 which, you know, I guess that might work for some people, so 99 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:31.799 cool. But Anyway, the shorter you sleep, the shorter your life. 100 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:35.399 Go Google that and read up on it. It's kind of interesting. Check 101 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:39.720 that out. And while we're on the topic of social media, just generally 102 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:45.870 speaking, you'll see a lot of people trying to raise awareness. Raise awareness 103 00:08:45.990 --> 00:08:50.190 I get. I get this visual of awareness being like a little flag on 104 00:08:50.269 --> 00:08:52.669 a stick, and somebody holds up a little stick and there's a flag. 105 00:08:52.789 --> 00:08:56.019 It says here's a cause, and there's another stick with a little flag and 106 00:08:56.500 --> 00:09:00.259 and a cause on it, and pretty soon there's so many little sticks and 107 00:09:00.340 --> 00:09:03.220 flags that you can't see anything and you can't read what's on all of these 108 00:09:03.259 --> 00:09:11.450 little sticks and flags. So I think it's important to focus and choose your 109 00:09:11.169 --> 00:09:18.929 cause carefully and and kind of stick with that and move it beyond just making 110 00:09:18.009 --> 00:09:22.929 people aware to taking action. So, for example, in the realm of 111 00:09:24.090 --> 00:09:28.600 mental health, in America especially, there could be a lot more government funding 112 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.720 to look into the causes of these things instead of, you know, subsidies 113 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:41.029 to pharmaceutical companies to keep drugging people that have these conditions that you know. 114 00:09:41.470 --> 00:09:46.070 Frankly, some things like bipolar, I still have a hard time just discerning 115 00:09:46.149 --> 00:09:50.909 whether it's a disorder or where. Everybody else is just not sensitive enough. 116 00:09:50.909 --> 00:09:56.179 I would prefer that we live in a more kind, more sensitive world, 117 00:09:56.059 --> 00:10:01.460 and so there's always a debate on what things are even disorders and since they 118 00:10:01.460 --> 00:10:07.970 can't cure bipolar, do they even know what it is? So we can 119 00:10:07.009 --> 00:10:13.769 talk about that in upcoming episodes. Speaking of upcoming episodes, I got the 120 00:10:13.809 --> 00:10:18.330 part I needed over the weekend. It's a little gadget that plugs into my 121 00:10:18.370 --> 00:10:22.840 iphone lightning port to a USB and then I can put that up into my 122 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:28.480 zoom mic and supposedly have super crystal clear telephone calls coming right into the mic 123 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:33.240 with me. So that would be nice. I have a couple people I'd 124 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:35.389 look to interview right off the Bat. Several, actually, about four or 125 00:10:35.470 --> 00:10:41.190 five now. And Oh, to recap, last month, Diane Harwood, 126 00:10:41.190 --> 00:10:45.070 who I told you was kicking your butt on the leaderboard. She won, 127 00:10:45.429 --> 00:10:54.580 so she's getting a hold on, hold on, I'm coming. Yeah, 128 00:10:56.340 --> 00:11:01.860 okay, okay, Oh, and so I want to thank Diane Harwood. 129 00:11:03.659 --> 00:11:09.289 She kicked everyone's but on the leaderboard in September. The leaderboards are now reset, 130 00:11:09.450 --> 00:11:13.529 so everyone has a new opportunity to get their emo Joe t shirt. 131 00:11:13.730 --> 00:11:18.090 I'm sending one out to Diane. That's awesome. I really appreciate all of 132 00:11:18.129 --> 00:11:22.639 her help. Sharing and retweeting. On twitter in particular seems like the best 133 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:28.279 place to be really for this kind of show. There's lots of up to 134 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:35.509 the minute articles and blog posts and ile youtube videos, other podcasts and things 135 00:11:35.549 --> 00:11:43.070 like that specifically about bipolar disorder or borderline personality disorder, PTSD, all the 136 00:11:43.110 --> 00:11:46.899 different things, and they're easy to find on twitter. So I appreciate it. 137 00:11:48.019 --> 00:11:50.100 If you hit me up on twitter. Just go to at bipolar style 138 00:11:50.860 --> 00:11:54.940 and follow. I always follow people back if I can tell that you're a 139 00:11:54.019 --> 00:12:00.500 real human and I love to have you. So that's probably about it for 140 00:12:00.620 --> 00:12:03.690 now. Man, I got so much to talk about really with the Katie 141 00:12:03.730 --> 00:12:07.610 story and something else along. We see my list. I got a list 142 00:12:07.649 --> 00:12:15.129 of upcoming topics really kind of dig a little deeper into the whole meds versus 143 00:12:15.330 --> 00:12:22.000 nomads contingency, specifically with bipolar disorder, because medicating bipolar disorder it's really tricky. 144 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:26.440 So a lot of times people stop the MEDS and just go free balling 145 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:33.029 to and whatever the hey can to feel better. And there's also another side 146 00:12:33.029 --> 00:12:37.590 who swear by the meds and are totally addicted to the pharmaceuticals. So those 147 00:12:37.629 --> 00:12:41.629 are awesome topics I look forward to talking to in the future. All right 148 00:12:41.710 --> 00:12:46.059 then, y'all, have a great day. If you'd liked what you heard, 149 00:12:46.500 --> 00:12:52.659 subscribe on Apple Podcast by Itunes and join us at bipolar stylecom. Thanks 150 00:12:52.700 --> 00:12:54.299 for listening.