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Originally Posted by
Squeamous
I recently told someone at work that I didn't understand why people with depression don't just shut up about it and get on with it without trying to make the rest of us 'understand'......then found out her mother is a schizophrenic and she is a manic depressive.
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Every day I find myself conversing at length with people over wide-ranging topics, and happened into a chat the other day with a fellow who was about to change jobs for a significantly more friendly insurance situation, for which he was especially thankful, owing to his own medication regimen.
I and my wife both have a moderate drug schedule, so I nonchalantly asked what drugs he was taking, and for what ailment.
He replied he was a paranoid schizophrenic with a variety of comingling secondary neuroses, which he rattled off so quickly I got the impression he'd practiced just for me.
I was almost mortified before I realized he hadn't taken any offense at all, and we commenced to have a very informative conversation about mental illness.
The upshot is, I guess, a lack of inhibition is sometimes of singular benefit. :whistling
