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Free Live Cam Chat Room - an Easy Path Towards a Strong Relationship
Free live cam chat room has revolutionized the world of online dating and friendship. It has emerged as a sure shot way to find a great partner online – right from the comfort and convenience of your home. Whether you have recently broken up with your partner or you just need a good friend, you no more need to feel depressed or get upset. The live video cam community online can help you find the person you are looking for – someone who is loving, caring, and understanding. The best thing about free web cam chat is that it allows you to see the person you are chatting with.
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There are two ways of chatting – audio cam chat and text cam chat. As the term suggests, the audio cam chat allows you to see the person and do a voice chat with them. On the other hand, if you do not want to use microphone, you can do a text chat, where you both will be writing while still seeing each other on the cam.
There are plenty of such websites on the Internet that provide you free service of live web cam and webcam chat. The basic idea behind these online chatting services is to bring people together. Today’s world is a highly competitive and busy one. We rarely get time for ourselves. The adult web cams show and other such web cam chat rooms provide you an excellent opportunity to meet the kind of people you always wanted to meet. Therefore, even if you are at work locked in your cabin, you can still meet people, talk to them, make friends, and who knows, you may also find your soul mate. The live video chat rooms are full of such possibilities. In this age of Internet, there are millions of people who have found their soul mates through free live cam chat room - that is the magic of online webcam chatting.
When you join the live video cam community, you get an opportunity to get in touch with like-minded people with similar beliefs and interests. You can initiate a conversation with a person of your choice, and at a later point of time, you may surprise yourself when you see that those small and formal conversations have actually turned into infatuations. And, there is nothing unusual about infatuations turning into life-long companionship.
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You never know whether your soul mate is living in some other part of the world. The live video cam community provides you an easy and impressive way to get and keep in touch with him/her. After building a strong online relationship, when you meet each other in person, you can give a new dimension to your love life.
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Are there any free online chat counselors/support people that people can talk to 24/7?
I tend to have rather upsetting bouts of anxiety and depression at night, usually after midnight, and would really love to be able to have someone to chat with who knows what I'm going through, and who could maybe help me get through it when it happens.
I have my reasons for not seeing a professional (the anxiety is one of them), and I'm hoping maybe if I can find someone legitimate to talk to they'll be able to help me get to that next step.
Any suggestions?
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Dieting Your Way to Stress Relief - The Right Diet Can Make All The Difference
Stress is now an inseparable part of your life. It is everywhere – in the workplace, in the home front, in social circles, everywhere. Getting stress relief is uppermost in everybody's mind. While you try out several techniques, you often fail to appreciate the importance of food in effective stress relief.
Stress Relief-Misplaced Concepts
Ironically, foods that you like most impair your stress relief systems. Stressed conditions are associated with some reduced levels of feeling-you feel irritated, anxious, depressed, demoralized and exhausted when stressed. Most often they indicate low blood sugar levels. What you think you need to boost up your morale in these situations are some livening foods-chocolate, alcoholic beverages, carbonated drinks, coffee, fatty foods etc. But, actually, with taking of these foods, you set in a damage process within yourself that offsets real stress relief. The extra charge of sugar or caffeine induced stress hormone, cortisol or increased levels of adrenaline with gulping down a peg or two of whiskey may hike your spirits for the time. But, these are short lived. You once again revert to the reduced levels of feeling. This time you feel more let down. Instead of getting relief from your stress, you end up adding more stress.
True stress relief is seldom obtained through 'charging' foods. Instead, you get more harm. Read on:
Coffee, Tea, beverages contain caffeine. This excites release of stress hormone, cortisol. You get temporarily worked up. But, these stress hormones cause restlessness and disturb your sleep.
Wines, whiskey cheer you up, thanks to an extra gush of adrenaline they set in. You find yourself above everything. But, this feeling is short lived. You soon begin to settle down and this time with more uncomfortable terms.
Your chocolates and other sugary stuff to charge your spirits end up in a short boost. Insulin release is increased. But, such insulin over activity reduces its efficiency. You become diabetic.
Pizzas, burgers, chips and all those in the salt and saturated fat family may tickle your taste buds and lift your spirits and levels of satiation. Take care; the blood sugar fluctuations they cause may soon make you more irritated, depressed and emotional.
If you are thinking in terms of real relief from your stress, then, shun all these foods.
Go in for foods that encourage stability and do not cause rampant fluctuations in blood sugar, adrenaline and cortisol levels to derail your relief initiatives.
Stress Relief-Make a new Beginning
Start with a wholesome breakfast. Take it regularly. Eat plenty of carbohydrates like brown rice, buckwheat pasta and brown bread. Try whole grain cereals, fruits and vegetables. Your blood sugar levels would remain normal. Add fiber content to your diet. They help in digestion and bowel movement. Go for fish and chicken instead of red meat.
And see the beginning of a new life with stress relief.
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Stress is everywhere in life. Overcoming it is the key to happiness. Right diet helps in stress relief. They make our systems more stable. Foods that give a temporary high should be avoided as they harm us more.
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Has anyone battled with longterm depression that may have been triggered by a broken heart/ spirit?
I have been depressed ongoingly since maybe July 2008. I pray about it and I do find comfort in prayer. I get a temporary relief, but then it comes back. I cannot seem to stay lifted. I know many may say you're Christian and Christians don't get depressed. That's not true. Even God's own get depressed. David describes his depression best in Psalms, and this was a man after God's own heart, whom God adored.
I was just wondering if anyone had any words of encouragement, scriptures for me to rest on for today and tomorrow? Thank you.
Im on a small dose of meds and I see a counselor regularly.
yes... many years back my fiancee broke off our engagement, i was absolutely devastated...
what got me out of it was helping others ... that got my mind off my problems while doing good for others; the combination of getting it off your mind, and doing as opposed to thinking, and putting someone other than myself first are, i believe, what helped me get through it...
no drugs or counseling here... if you need the drugs, they can help... as to counsel, you will not find any more helpful than what i have just given... any attempt to focus on the problem will not work, you must focus outward
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The Cry "I Want To Kill Myself"
It is the voice of so many people recently, "I want to kill myself". It is the statement that reflects the emotional feeling of a growing number of people. Suicide rates have been increasing in recent years with a record number of teenagers who committed suicide in the past year. What is at the root cause of the act that ends a life? Suicide is the only decision that cannot be changed. Researchers are looking at the rise in suicide rates and are searching for answers to this dilemma.
There is a growing despair that has affected a large number of people in the past few years. We are living in times that are very unpredictable. This has taken the joy from the hearts of many people. The economic downturn is a factor but cannot be blamed for the increase in the suicide rate. For many something is missing from this life. The thought "I want to kill myself" is something that does not just appear. The growth of a deep despair that has a root in dissatisfaction is what leads to suicide. Generally many people are just not happy, they are surviving and hanging on but happiness is missing. If the seed of dissatisfaction continues to grow it can be the start of a bigger problem that can lead to suicidal thoughts.
The suicidal person must be recognized as one who is more than just not happy; the lack of joy is the beginning of the suicidal seed. At many different times in our life we may feel unhappy, we may think that something we are going through is really bad. We have periods of depression and dissatisfaction. Some how we still hold hope that things will improve. The suicidal person does not feel things will get better; it is a long struggle without an end. Suicidal thoughts are a serious matter that must be taken with the utmost urgency. The belief that the suicidal person will just get better in time is a dangerous approach to take. Many people have lost love one with this mistaken belief that things will just automatically get better. Medication and therapy can help with suicidal thoughts but will not often cure.
There is a new approach from a filmmaker that has been having great success with suicidal thoughts, it involves no doctors, and no therapy, actually the suicidal person heals alone. It is an inside-out treatment that has been helping teens and adults.
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Depression is killing me...help.?
I'm 19 years old and I'm a college freshman. I like the school I go to, it's only an hour from home. I don't go home too often. However, recently this semester I've been feeling very unhappy. I have a good life; a great boyfriend, good friends, good family, straight A's. It just doesn't make me happy though. Something isn't right. I have lost one of my best friends this year..she goes to my school but she's basically just abandoned me as a friend and now we don't talk. I've tried to talk to her but nothing helped. I've been talking to people about this depression, and they've been trying to give me tips to help, but I can't find the motivation to pull myself out. Occasionally, when I'm with friends, I'll feel okay and happy. But when I'm alone I feel so sad and lonely. I work very hard in school, and it may contribute to all my stress. I have made a counseling appointment. Is there anything else I can do to beat this? I need to be happy again.
Just concentrate on your studies and other friends.Life is worth living, don't let one friend ruin your life.Think of it this way was she really a friend after all?You will have allot of disappointments throughout your life.That is what will make you a better person.I wish you every happiness and hope you move forward with your life and you succeed in all your goals.
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Adolescent Depression
Adolescent Depression:
The pressures of modern living are also having a detrimental effect on our adolescent youth. Take a look at the following statistics and be amazed.
Figures never lie and they are perhaps the best means to highlight certain facts and when they are brought to the notice of the general public leave a lasting impression. It is important to gain the attention of all who want to learn about what the statistics are saying. There are no doubts that statistics are nothing more and nothing less than concrete concepts that have the power to sway even the most skeptical of minds, and it will even show the young generation the true picture with respect to adolescent depression.
The first thing that will make you sit up and take notice about statistics pertaining to adolescent depression is the news that nearly a fifth of the teenage population in the US has experienced a form of clinical depression, even before having gained full adulthood.
Not only that, but there are about ten to fifteen percents of teenagers that have shown symptoms of adolescent depression and another five percent of the teenage population will have suffered from significant depression.
Secondly, another alarming aspect to adolescent depression is the fact that there is not much social acceptance when it concerns teenagers with such a condition, and what’s worse is the fact that as many as eight percent of teenagers will have experienced the re-occurrence of depression at least once a year. This is alarming because only a mere five percent of the national population suffer from depression.
When a person suffers a bout of adolescent depression it will generally last for about eight months and teenagers are also at risk that the subsequent attack of adolescent depression will strike them within a mere two years and the chances of this happening are about twenty to forty percent, and there is also a seventy percent chance that they will experience another attack of adolescent depression before they have even reached full adulthood.
Thirdly, another feature of adolescent depression is that quite a few teenagers will suffer from attacks of seasonal depression. This form of depression is most likely to strike during the wintertime, it is also found in places where the altitude is on the high side. Even the weather can play a significant part in the onset of seasonal depression, which means that teenagers also need to be aware of these external effects on the state of mind..
Fourthly, other figures related to adolescent depression reveal that dysthymia or a mild form of depression that lasts for a long time will affect about two percent of teenagers and a like percentage of teenagers are also likely to suffer from bipolar depression when they grow older. In fact, it is thought that as many as fifteen percent of teenagers that have suffered from major depression will later on be at risk of developing bipolar depression.
Thus, it is safe to say that adolescent depression will affect teenagers no matter their social background, income level, gender as well as race or even their achievements and that adolescent depression is very common mental health problem affecting teenagers in the US.
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i am at the point of where i cant take it anymore. reason is the cliche, mum loves sister more and i'm out of the picture.i'm the eldest and my sister is spoiled and cared more then me. my mum always goes to my sisters side even known shes wrong. also supporting her more and providing her more. it may be my teenage hormones or wateva but i think i have depression and i reli duno wat to do. my sister is always rubbing it in my face to and she is really stubborn.im 15 by the way
As you recognized by calling it cliche, your dilemma is not all that uncommon.
You might try turning this on it's head and ask why your sister might need your mother's attention and support more than you? Maybe your mom thinks you're more independent than she is or that you're more capable?
Most young people with siblings, go through something like this at some point or another. You can always try being frank and talking with your mother about how you feel. Just be sure to do so in a calm and rational manner. Try not to yell or be overly emotional about it and you're likely to see your mum take you more seriously.
You might also try spending some one on one time with your mom. Something as simple as a walk in the park, just the two of you together, can make a big difference.
Finally, and I know you're probably going to roll your eyes at this one, give this all some time. When you're 15, you're growing up fast and things in your life are changing every day. Your relationships with your mother, sister, friends, and everyone you know are taking on new meaning. You'll get through this, and probably have a good laugh about it with your mum some day.
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Beginners Guide to Slots - Play Online Slot
The slot machine is the one casino gambling game that is totally American in origin. The fist machine was pioneered by Charles Fey in 1897 with the Liberty machine. This machine had three reels with symbols that had a 3:1 payout ratio for nickels. By 1899 he had a machine that would divert coins to a payout tray. The next machine to appear was the Mills machine. Slots were the rage during Prohibition and even during the Depression. When gambling was legalized in Nevada in 1931, the slot found its home. Today, modern casinos have thousands of slot machines. Walking into any casino, you see row after row of slot machines.
The slot machine consists of a cabinet that houses all of its parts. The player watches the reels as they spin. As the reels stop spinning, one by one, the patterns of symbols appears. If the pattern matches a pattern on the payout display, the player wins and the winning coins come tumbling out in the payout tray. If not he puts in another coin, pulls the handle or hits the Play button, and tries again. The reels have Mylar-like strips around them that have symbols on them. The greater the number of symbols on the strip, the less the players chance of winning. Each reel has certain places where it will stop. These places are called Steps or Stops. The modern computerized machine has 128 Stops and 2,097,152 possible outcomes, with each reel’s stop being determined by a Random Number Generator. There is no way to predict the outcome of a slot pull. The computerized chip in the machine is called the Payout Percentage Chip. This chip is programmed to determine the payout percentage over the life of the machine. If the slot has a 95% Payout Percentage this means that the house has 5% of every dollar that is played over the long-run.
The Service Light or Candle in on top of the machine. The player pushes the Change button to activate this light and a member of the casino staff will appear. The player uses this button when he needs change, has a questions, wants a drink, etc. This light will begin to flash automatically when the machine has a technical problem or if there is a winner. Never walk away from a machine that has a winner on it or you can’t prove it is your winner. Always wait for a member of the staff to come with the payout.
When the player looks at the reels in front of him, he sees the Payout Line. This is the line where the symbols must line up. The number of payout lines depends on the game. Some games have one payout line, some have three, some have nine. These will be marked on the glass over the reels. These lines show the combination of symbols that have resulted from the pull, using either the slot machine handle or the Play button. The machine will have the Payout Display on it. This will either be on the Top Glass or the Belly Glass. The top glass is the square or rounded glass below the service light and above the slot reels. The belly glass is below the reels and above the payout tray. The payout display shows all of the winning combination of symbols and the amount of the payout. If the machine is a multi-coin machine, it will show the payout amount for each coin played.
You can play the machine by putting a coin in the Coin Entry and then pulling the slot handle or pushing the play button. If you don’t want to enter a coin every time, you can deposit $10 or $20 or whatever amount you want through the Bill Acceptor, and play off the credits. The machine will have a Total Credits on the display showing you the total amount of credits you have. When you bet, there will be a Credits Played display that shows you the number of coins you have bet on the pull. If you decide to quit playing, you push the Cash Out button and the number of coins showing in the Total Credits display will empty into the coin tray.
Before each play there will be an Insert Coin light. You must insert one or more coins into the coin entry before you can play the machine. If you have credits on the machine you can Play One Coin for the appropriate number of coins you wish to play or you can push Max Bet. If you are playing a three coin machine, this will automatically bet the three coins. If you win on the play, the number of coins won will show in the Winner Paid display. If an Error Code appears anywhere on the display this means you need the assistance of the casino staff because the machine has malfunctioned. The service candle should flash automatically. If it doesn’t, push the Change button and a staff member will come.
Make sure you play the appropriate coin that the machine requires. When you deposit a coin in the coin entry, the coin goes to the Coin Compariator. This piece of equipment compares the deposited coin with the coin required by the machine. For example, if you are playing a quarter machines, there is an U.S. quarter in the coin compariator that every deposited coin is compared with. If it doesn’t match, the machine won’t play. The same is true for tokens. This is why you can’t take tokens from casino to casino to play the slots.
There are a variety of different games that you can play on slots. Some are very simple, one coin with one payout line; some are very complicated like progressives and multiple payout lines. Always make sure you know the rules of the game you are playing. They will be given on the machine display somewhere. If you don’t know, ask a member of the casino staff. There is no worse feeling than sitting there wondering why you are winning or losing!
Since the advent of Internet. The Internet has become the most popular medium for people to play online slot machine game and online casino game on the net. The game played in an online gaming or gambling sites (as it is also known) in United Kingdom is known as UK bingo. Playing from within the comfort of your own home is certainly more fun as compared to playing in crowded parlors and parties. Not only does the Internet enable you to play various exciting versions of bingo but also facilitates socializing across the cyber world. Online casino sites allow you to play internet casino or gambling on the net.
The sites are designed in such manner that you can download the software from the site to play games or you can play slot games online from the software that is installed there. The online casino sites offer many online gambling games like online bingo, keno, craps, blackjack, roulette, poker, and online casino slot. These are very popular games on the Internet and are played fro jackpot, bonus and cash rewards.
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My partner of 13yrs split up with me 2 weeks ago cos some guy from a mobile chat site been involved with her?
sending filthy pics and vids back and forth to each other and saying they love eachother along with dirty messages. She says she dont want me back but it is only because of this guy from the net. We met last week and she had sex with me and when we finished she said this will never happen again so dont expect to come back. Every time wespeak she makes a point of saying she aint having me back. We have 4 kids together and she wants to let this all go on some internet fantasy. Why is she doing this to me? I am on loads of depression pills and lost 3 stone in weight while constantly crying to family and friends and psychiatrists about it. I sent her expensive roses and an expensive necklace and all i had was 1 text saying " the stuff you sent me is here".
I want her back what can I do?
Right now she is in the throes of Lust and feels that the grass will be greener with this other guy. You can do nothing about it - you were not married, so she can just walk away.
Go back to her place and ask for your gifts back - she does not want them, then work out a time where you can have access to your children - they are the important ones here and just say that you will be available for a chat if she needs to talk to someone - do not grovel and do not become a doormat. She will eventually realise that Lust is not the same as love and will either try to come back or move on - if she does want to come back - don't say yes straight away - think really hard about it - she obviously did not respect you enough- if she comes back she comes back on your terms - by then you would have had time to clear your head and decide what you want out of life - by all means remain friends but nothing else until the time is right - she is treating you the same way some guys treat some of women - its disrespectful to you as a person, get some self confidence and with you losing 3 stone you must be looking pretty good... maybe with a bit of confidence and a spring in your step you might find other ladies looking at you....
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your avatar...?
what is your avatar telling about you?
what/who shows it?
why is it that one?
ect...
my avatar shows me on the morning after the ( lost Euro Final after depression, alcohol and a realy realy bad mood
Minds about the Euro Final...
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...with the music from Scrubs, of the final scenes of JDs thougts in every episode.
the Torres goal is a thought of Lehmann...and also theres a funny interview of Schweini, when in the backgound dancing the spain winner...Schweini very down awww lol
he says there "they can do what they want"
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MY AVATAR is just a cartoon it sort of looks like me but i look better. hey i love Schweini!!!!
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The Paradox of Sarah Kane
There are some who believe that the world lost one of its finest late 20th century dramatists when Sarah Kane committed suicide in 1999. Her work produced extreme reactions in critics and audiences alike but many failed to appreciate the pure poetry of her writing until it was too late.
She was born in Essex, England, on 3rd February 1971. Her parents were both journalists and devout evangelists - religion played an important part in their everyday lives. Her father became the area manager of the Daily Mirror for East Anglia, while her mother gave up work to care for Sarah and her brother. By all accounts, Kane was an intelligent child who enjoyed learning, supported Manchester United F.C. and openly discussed God. However, in later years, when she had lost her faith, she described her juvenile beliefs as ‘the full spirit-filled, born-again lunacy’.
As a teenager, she became involved with local drama groups and directed Chekhov and Shakespeare while still in school - playing truant at one point to be an assistant director in a production at Soho Polytechnic. After taking her A-levels, she went on to Bristol University to take a degree in drama, with all intentions of becoming an actress. She seemed at home in the theatre and was immensely popular with fellow students, enjoying their company to the full and indulging in a typically wild social life. She went clubbing, enjoyed affairs with women and became a great admirer of Howard Barker's Jacobean dramas (once acting in his play, “Victory”) - empathizing with his dark views on life and love.
Sarah stood out as a talented actress and director, but somewhere down the line, she began to lose heart with her anticipated vocation and started writing instead. The first substantial work she produced was “Sick”, a series of three monologues that were performed to a pub crowd in Edinburgh. The pieces concerned rape, eating disorders and sexual identity, and her first person delivery was said to be "raw" and "unsettling".
She graduated with a first from Bristol and went straight to Birmingham University to join David Edgar's MA playwriting course, which she disliked but completed for the sake of her mother. Secretly she started writing “Blasted”, a complex play about violence from the perspective of both victim and perpetrator. When it was first performed at the students' end-of-year show it was watched by Mel Kenyon, who was completely "awe-struck" and later found it difficult to get the play out of her mind. She wrote to Kane and they subsequently met up in London, where Kane agreed to Kenyon becoming her agent.
“Blasted” is about a middle-aged tabloid journalist who appears to be dying and invites an unsuspecting retarded child into his Leeds hotel room, assuring her that he simply needs a little comfort during his final hours. Once trapped he proceeds to rape, debase and ridicule her before an armed soldier suddenly bursts in and wreaks appalling havoc, turning the scene into a Bosnian battlefield. The play opened in January 1995 at the Royal Court Upstairs, becoming the theatres most controversial work in over thirty years. British newspaper critics were in their element, describing it as "a disgusting feast of filth", a work "devoid of intellectual and artistic merit" and like "having your whole head held in a bucket of offal". However, established dramatists such as Harold Pinter turned on the reviewers, telling them they were "out of their depth" and that “Blasted” was simply too complex for them.
Although upset by the slating, Kane went on to write four more plays in as many years. “Cleansed” was about love, death and drug addiction in a concentration camp and, like much of her work, was closely fashioned on real-life incidents. Whereas “Crave”, written under the pseudonym of Marie Kelvedon, was about four warring factions of one individual's consciousness and was generally received as her most mature play up to that point. She also wrote the terrifying “Phaedra's Love” and “Skin”, a short film for Britain’s Channel 4. Throughout this period, she travelled around Europe, leading theatre workshops by day and writing at night - becoming quite a celebrity in France and Germany.
While there is little doubt that Kane was an incredibly likeable, original and kind human being, depression was never far from the surface and she was at times unable to cope with the intensity of her emotions after completing “Crave”. She admitted herself to the Maudsley Hospital in south London for a time but recovered sufficiently to enjoy her play's critical triumph - which was compared by some to T.S. Eliot's “The Wasteland”. Unfortunately, her happiness was short-lived and the depression returned. In January 1999, after completing “4.48 Psychosis” (so called because it's the time of morning when people are most likely to kill themselves), she swallowed 150 anti-depressants and 50 sleeping pills. She survived because her flat-mate found her in time and rushed her to King's College Hospital in London. Two days later she was left alone for 90 minutes and was later discovered hanging from her shoelaces in a nearby toilet. She was 28 years old.
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O.k, my brother sleeps all day. He yells at our parents even when they're not yelling at him. He also, thinks he doesn't have to any thing we tell him. I know, it's typical teenage behavior, but he writes very violent poetry. He has cuts on his wrists.
I think it's because of this girl named Sam. He's been talking to her a lot lately. When he does, he puts on depressing music. This only happens late at night. Then, tonight he didn't come home from school. My dad called the cops. Luckily, he came home. He's got a ticket. The other night he said to her, "I think I'm going insane." He was rocking back and forth too.
It's really starting to worry me. He's never acted like this before. I just want to know! What's the matter?
Ok, you know what, he feels trapped, like everything is falling apart inside him and around him, and he may have no idea on how to try and think postive at all, hes in a bad rut where hes thoughts just feed those bad feelings and those bad feelings power them thoughts, its almost a none stop cycle, unless somebody or something stops it, he may very well be depressed, and even if he says he doesn't care, deep down he does wanna get out and be happy, everyone does, I've been like this before and it is the hardest personal thing to get out of, he needs hes family and any good friends for support, and needs to relise that he can make it out, he wont responde good to this but seeing a phsycologist is a good idea, they will help him with the way he thinks and teach him mental excersizes, and get him out of the confusion and blur his in atm and help him too approach problems better, thats just what I think may be wrong.
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Personality classification goes back as far as the ancient Egyptians and Greeks. Disorders such as Dementia and depression are described in the Egyptian Ebers Papyrus dating from about 1550 BCE. The writings suggests the Egyptians conceived mental and physical disorders in the same way. Medieval Arabic Psychological thinkers later described additional personality disorders and in modern times more studies have revealed more information on these disorders.
Personality is the thoughts, emotions and behaviors that make us individuals. Personality is formed during childhood, it is influenced by a combination of genetics and environment. Those aspects of our personality frequently called temperament are inherited from our parents. Our relationships with others and parenting style are the environmental influences in the development of personality. There is an ongoing debate over the influences of genetics and environment.
The Mayo clinic describes a personality disorder as a general term for a mental illness in which thinking, perception and relationships with others are dysfunctional. Generally, a personality disorder is a rigid and potentially self destructive pattern of thinking and behaving regardless of the situation. Because their way of thinking appears normal to them, sometimes persons with personality disorders are unaware of the disorder. Personality disorders are thought to be caused by a combination of genetics and environment. There is research to indicate that some individuals have a genetic predisposition to personality disorders.
Risk factors for the development of personality disorders may include:
A genetic predisposition
Emotional, physical and sexual abuse as a child
Unstable family life as a child
Diagnosis of childhood conduct disorder
Loss of parent(s)
Common symptoms include frequent mood swings, uncontrolled or angry outbursts, suspicion of others without cause, difficulty in social situations, poor impulse control, substance abuse (including alcohol). There may also be a need for instant gratification and difficulty in interpersonal relationships.
Personality disorders are grouped into clusters according to there similarities of symptoms and characteristics. Cluster A are disorders are characterized by odd thinking or behavior and include:
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belief that others are trying to harm you
emotional detachment
hostility
Schizoid personality disorder
Little or no interest in social relationships
“Flat” emotions
Unable to pick up on normal social cues
Indifference to others
Schizotypal personality disorder
Odd dress, thinking, beliefs or behavior
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Inability to be comfortable in close relationships
Inappropriate emotional responses
Indifference to others
Belief you can influence people and events with your thoughts
Believing messages are hidden for you in public displays or speeches
Cluster B are disorders are characterized by overly emotional thinking or behavior and include:
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Timidity
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Submissiveness
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Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder isn't the same as obsessive-compulsive disorder which is a type of anxiety disorder.
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Anxiety
Eating disorders
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Inappropriate or risky sexual activities
Abuse of their own children
Alcohol/substance abuse
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Diagnosis of a personality disorder will often include physical exams with laboratory work to help determine physiological causes. Psychological evaluation to determine the extent of the problem and how it affects your daily life. If you've had similar episodes in the past. And to determine if you are may potentially harm yourself or others. Diagnosis can be difficult because many disorders share common symptoms and the diagnosis process depends on how you describe your symptoms. Because of this it may take time to reach the correct diagnosis and it is important for the patient to continue working with their healthcare provider despite feelings of frustration and feeling they are not getting anywhere.
In order to be diagnosed with a personality disorder criteria set in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), published by the American psychiatric Association must be met. Each disorder has it's own set of criteria.
Some patients do not meet all the criteria of a diagnosable personality disorder, but still have a personality disorder and need treatment to manage or overcome it. Treatment is often done with a multi-disciplinary team which can be made up of family members, the primary care provider, psychiatrist, Psychotherapist and social worker. Treatment may be a combination of Psychotherapy, medication or hospitalization.
Psychotherapy is talking with a mental health worker to learn the underlaying causes of the condition. How you feel about it and how it affects you and how to cope with situations that may arise leading to an episode. With continued treatment you learn how to manage and control the disorder. Psychotherapy sessions can individual, group or with family and friends. There are several forms of Psychotherapy:
Cognitive behavioral therapy combines cognitive and behavior therapies to identify unhealthy, negative beliefs and behaviors, replacing them with positive healthy ones
Dialectical behavior therapy is a kind of behavioral therapy with the primary goal of teaching skill to help you tolerate stress and control emotions to improve your relationships with others.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy focuses on increasing your awareness of thoughts, actions and motivations. It tries to teach ways to resolve conflicts.
Psychoeducation is the process of teaching you and family and perhaps friends about your condition and ways to deal with it.
Medication may be administered to help control physiological causes. While there are no drugs approved by the FDA for personality disorders, there are medications that can treat the symptoms of the disorder. The classes of drugs used are anti-depressants, anti-anxiety and Antipsychotic drugs. These act on different centers of the brain restoring chemical imbalances reducing feelings of anxiety, impulsiveness, aggression and reducing symptoms of losing touch with reality.
Hospitalization may be required with severe cases where there is the possibility you may do harm to yourself or others or when you are not capable of caring for yourself. Hospitalization may be in a Psychiatric hospital for 24 hour care, as an outpatient or in a residential treatment facility.
Lifestyle choices can help the person with personality disorders. It is important that you stay with your care plan, don't miss sessions. Take any medications as instructed. Failing to may lead to decompensating and many medications can have withdrawal symptoms on top of the return of symptoms they were being used to control. Educate yourself about your disorder. This can empower and motivate you to stay the course. Learn warning signs of your symptoms. Doing so may allow you to better avoid those situations and will alert you of an impending episode. Also, keep your therapist aware of any changes in your symptoms. Remain physically active. Physical activities can help manage many symptoms of personality disorders. Avoid drugs and alcohol these can worsen symptoms and may interfere with the effectiveness of your medication. See your doctor regularly especially if you don't feel well. You may be experiencing new symptoms or side effects of medication.
Read reputable self-help books and discuss them with your therapist. Keep a journal, write your feelings, use it to express anger, frustration or other emotions. Simplify your life by limiting your obligations and maintaining a reasonable schedule. Reducing stress will help reduce the onset of symptoms. Participate in normal activities with friends and family.
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It all begins with a lucid dream I had…I was walking up to my high school’s football field as all of the school stood in the bleachers waiting for me but I had come up from behind to where the cheerleaders and dance team were. I remember one girl yelling, “Hey Scott!” from the bleachers and then another girl saying, “Look, smile!” A third girl had run up to me to take a picture of me with her camera. Before she did, I looked to my left and saw my girlfriend and she said hi to me very excitedly and my body filled with warm joy and excitement. It was a rush. Quickly I looked back to the camera and smiled. The flash blinded me for an instant and within that half a second I had realized that I was in fact dreaming and then when I looked back to my girlfriend I realized she was actually now my ex-girlfriend because I was now aware that it was just a dream. A dark wave of depression swarmed my insides. Once lucid I realized she had just broken up with me a few days before. At that moment I wished to die. And I did. My body, my soul started to fall down to the grass but fell through to an abyss of brief darkness to which I then woke up to my body feeling dead as I was sprawled out on my basement couch. This dream, I believe, is what induced my month-long episode of mania.
The week before this dream I had been suffering greatly from depression. I had been very sick for almost a month with bronchitis and congestion. I eventually tested positive for mononucleosis after a painful trip to the ER resulted in a blood test. I had been in excruciating pain for days because of a severe sore throat. The pain was unbearable. I couldn’t sleep or eat. The pain had been radiating into my jaw and my tongue. I was absolutely miserable. When I told my girlfriend that I had mono her response to me via text was “…” Dot, dot, dot. It didn’t make her too happy with me I guess. She broke up with me 3 days later. I loved her and could not get over her. This was the main reason for my depression. I was lonely and ill. Distraught, I was on the verge of losing my sanity. I did soon thereafter.
During this same week, my best friend of 12 years told me he was going to be sent away to a residential hospital for 4-5 months with contact only through letters. So, I lost my girlfriend, best friend, and physical health within one week. Mono of course made me miss school for a month so I also lost my chance for an advanced diploma. I was about to lose my future. These events caused me to lose everything I loved. I cherish all memories before this point because after these events I lost yet another item of mine, my mind.
I might as well have been on acid for 30 days. I was hallucinating. I was hearing voices. My writings appear to be schizophrenic. I spent all my money in one week, an entire grand wasted. I could see TV in 3-D, I thought I could walk on water, I thought I could time travel, and I thought I would be able to fly. Very late in my episode I truly believed that I was the second coming of Jesus Christ and that I was going to save the world. These are some of the things at the top of my head that I remember doing. I don’t remember much. This might sound unrealistic but I assure you I believed these things 100%. I was convinced I was a super being, a super hero. I spent days upon days trying to time travel. It felt like being in a movie. It was like being high on life. I was manic. I know it’s hard to believe, but all of these things became my passions. I felt destined to acquire these abilities and my explanation for everything was that I was stuck in a dream. I woke up that day believing I was still in a lucid dream. And for the next 30 days I lived like it.
The first thing I remember doing is taking 3-D glasses, a toilet paper roll, and my Ipod and getting euphoric off staring at the rainbow that appeared when I looked through the 3-D eye tube I had made. I then lay on the ground for several hours staring at the ceiling light as I tried different combinations of going cross-eyed. I got high off going cross-eyed over 100 times. Even today going cross-eyed still fascinates me. At one point I was in a parking garage and when I went cross-eyed, I hallucinated a yellowish grass field around my car with a blue sky. Another significant hallucination I had was when I watched TV. I would see everything in 3-D, even cartoons and pictures too on LCD screens. I remember going to the mall and being astounded that the weatherman was popping out of the screen as I walked by. One thing I tried to do many times was making water appear on my glasses using my eyes. I would also try to bend light and melt water bottles. I spent a lot of my time on my deck just staring into the sun and smoking cigarettes. I got very addicted to cigarettes during this time, a pack day and now I can’t quit.
One day I went to school during my manic episode and I ended up writing a 25 page hand-written essay on why one equals zero, 1=0. I called this the equation of faith. I believed that numbers were all limits and that language was not capable of ever representing the concept of infinity properly. To me infinity is a belief, not a number. I believed that I had broken a barrier into the spiritual realm by proving 1=0. This was another explanation I gave to myself for why I was feeling these new feelings. I believed that I had crossed over.
To be mentally insane temporarily and then going back to normal is called the slip back into reality. This occurred when my psychologist and psychiatrist convinced me that I was not in a dream. I didn’t believe them for a while until one day it hit me. I then became depressed again for a week or so, but then back to hypomanic. This is when I was diagnosed bipolar. Within a year I had been diagnosed with anxiety disorders like panic disorder and OCD and then I was diagnosed ADHD. I am currently on 6 different prescribed medications yet I still have minor panic attacks every day and I struggle with ADHD constantly.
Each medication I’ve tried or am on currently has been a drug experience for me. Zoloft was the first prescribed medication given to me for my anxiety problems. It took 2 weeks to kick in but I remember being at work when I felt a buzzing feel for no apparent reason. I felt it again the next day and that’s when I realized that I also felt more confident and relaxed. I became high on life for weeks following because of my new found level of happiness from the Zoloft. As I built a tolerance for it and got used to it my prescription went from 20 mg to 50 mg to 100 mg. At that amount the drug started to have negative effects on me. I had mild to severe night sweats almost every night for 1-2 months. I also acquired anorexia nervosa which led to my losing 15 pounds and I puked in my backyard almost every night. I was skinny and unhealthy looking. After my doctors put me down to 75 mg of Zoloft I started to reverse the damage. I never gained the weight back because at that that time I was diagnosed with ADHD and was put on adderall. I was having major problems with sitting still for a long time. I was squirming all the time in my chair and everyone that’s had a class with me knows I bounce my legs during class from start to finish. My problem with my legs is now possibly a neurological movement disorder. By some it’s simply called “sewing machine legs.” So, they put me on 20 mg of adderall which later became 30 mg. I noticed the buzz the first days I tried it. It caused me to do my AP English homework for the first time in months and I would actually do my Spanish homework on adderall. Another medication I was on at that time is called amitriptyline. This medicine simply helped my physical condition. I had been diagnosed IBS, irritable bowl syndrome, and hyperhydrosis, excessive sweating, due to anxiety. This medicine helped in combination with Zoloft greatly. These are the prescriptions I had before I got mono.
During my manic episode I was thoroughly convinced that I was going to win the lottery. At one point I decided that my wishes would come true after sleep. That’s the only reason why I slept except one time I stayed up for 72 hours. One day I woke up convinced I would finally win a certain lottery ticket for $2,500. I told my parents I was walking to the gas station. With me I brought my ipod, cigarettes, lighter, my cell, and my friend Greg’s cell phone because he had left it in my car before he was sent away. It was a clear sunny day and as I walked towards the gas station I said to myself “Let’s go on an adventure.” I walked down Fairfax County parkway and as I went I thought I was seeing clues, signs. I followed the clues and eventually I thought that if I stared at the sun and rotated, I could control time. I also thought that I was a “shock” and that I could charge Greg’s dead phone’s battery. This is when my first auditory hallucination occurred that I remember. I called Greg’s voicemail and the voicemail lady started to talk to me, which is impossible. This happened again with my own voicemail later that day because I thought she was telling me how to time travel. Continuing on the journey I walked to an underpass tunnel where I tried to levitate, walk on water, and crawl into another dimension. Doing these things and believing that I had achieved them led me to believe that I would eventually become a superhero. That’s how crazy I was. Even though during this period I told myself that I was crazy, I still was completely oblivious to how crazy I really was.
Time travel is not possible today, but while I was manic I truly believed that I was capable of it. I thought I needed time travel tools to do it. My tools were noise cancellation headphones, a non-working watch, 2 bracelets, an ipod, a timer, a bell, and a color-changing clock. I would go into my basement bathroom with these items, completely naked with sharpie drawn all over my body and try to time travel. I would shut off the lights and then turn on the fan and then I would set the timer to a specific number and then walk out the door hoping the world was frozen in time. I tried this repeatedly with my other time traveling methods. My other method was to change the time on my computer to the time of my choosing which would then change the world’s time. I repeatedly tried to stop time with this too and because I believed my computer’s clock was almighty, I accidentally kept my computer’s date to a day behind which left my memory of dates entirely disoriented. This is the reason why I forgot my Dad’s birthday on March 3rd, a month after I first entered my manic episode, because I thought it was March 2nd even though I had set my clock to one day behind an entire month prior to this. My actions affected my memory.
On the computer I would see my music Myspace for “Safe Bet” glow and because my nickname in the band was “The Preacher” I thought it was fate that I seemed to be having some type of religious experience. That’s how it felt. I came to the conclusion that all humans are the sons or daughters of God and that we all possess potential capabilities that are limited due to our inhibitions. I now doubt all beliefs I have; I question the reality of it all after having this episode.
During my episode, my inhibitions were released and I experienced natural intense euphoria. It was like being high all day everyday. I was in a good mood, I was energetic, and I was happy. This was unlike me considering this began only 1 week after a break up that left me intensely depressed. I had become confident, I felt completely over my ex-girlfriend. I didn’t know why I felt so good or why I was seeing TV in 3D. I questioned it, but only to myself. It drove me to insanity, as I went through spirals of theories. Sometimes I knew I was acting strange but I didn’t care. I thought I was right. I thought I was Jesus.
To relate to someone with bipolar disorder, you have to have done some type of mind-altering drug. Imagine that bipolar disorder is like having an unwanted drug in your system. It intensifies emotions on both sides which can lead to manic episodes and depressive episodes but does bring out creativity. Bipolar disorder is known commonly but actual manic episodes are unexplained and remain a mystery to the general public. If you’re “normal” then you can be grateful and by normal I mean someone that doesn’t need daily medications. I am drugged up by 6 different medications for my mental illness. That’s how much it takes for me to feel almost normal. I’ve only been treated for under a year for my mental problems so I grew up in what I considered a cruel world. I constantly struggled with stabilizing my emotions my entire life, but I never knew what to do. I had to admit I had mental problems, and tell my parents to take me to a psychologist. This has helped me a lot and I have conquered many problems over the last year. But, the year’s worth of therapy didn’t prepare me for the manic episode and afterwards.
The slip into reality is when someone in a manic episode finally accepts that they had one. They go from feeling like Jesus to feeling like a dud. I got incredibly depressed because I was so disappointed in myself. I thought my dreams were going to come true. I thought I had special powers. I was a maniac.
Here is a quick bio that my Mom had to write for my appointment at the neurologist.
Scott was diagnosed with anxiety in the summer of 2008. Our primary care physician, Dr. Long, prescribed Zoloft, beginning with a low dose. Scott had some improvement. Scott had adverse reactions as higher doses were given including sweating. Scott still felt anxious and expressed feelings of going crazy and Dr. Long recommended Dr. Arons. When beginning psychiatric treatment with Dr. Arons in December of 2008, he was given a diagnosis of ADHD and Adderall was prescribed. In January 2009 Scott was diagnosed with mononucleosis. A few days later his girlfriend broke up with him and his close friend, Greg, went into Graydon Manor to treat depression and addiction. These experiences were traumatic. Scott then experienced manic and hypomanic episodes for about a 4 week period during February. Initially he was treated with Zyprexa. In March he was taken of Zyprexa and Abilify was introduced and then Lithium. During his manic episode Zoloft was discontinued. After the mania, Scott was prescribed again Zoloft starting in low doses and then increasing to the current 75 mg daily dose. Zoloft was reintroduced about the end of March. He is currently not manic or hypomanic. As his mother and observer of his day to day activities, I think he is still suffering from depression. He sleeps frequently during the day. He is o a reduced school day schedule and is taking 2 high school classes in order to graduate. It is difficult for him to focus on activities (except playing music, his passion). Focusing on school activities is very difficult. Reading a literary novel which holds no interest, impossible. He can no longer even enjoy the pastime of watching TV and sleeps instead. Attendance is sporadic at school for various health reasons, tired, not feeling well, nauseous, etc.
Part 2: 1=0
Before writing Part 2, I showed Part 1 around to classmates, friends, and family. I also went to 2 of the main bipolar support websites and posted my story and got comments and responses. Everyone complimented me on these writings and I was very happy to hear that but I feel the need to explore my thoughts on more of my manic episode, I mean… it was 30 days. I’ll try to remember as much as I possibly can. I went back and gathered my crazy writings from my episode and I found some disturbing ones. In a random notebook I found on a random page the words
“I, Scott Andrew Bennett, know how I died because I killed myself with my mind. Now that I know 2 eyes = 1. I am Everything Where. Um, Circles and Squares. iTunes=Music Music=IAMMUSIC.”
I don’t know what I was thinking.
If you think that’s weird then this next paragraph will be VERY weird. Its my summary of why 1=0 that I typed up during my manic episode.
“English is just a sub-circle of language and so is math So, I can literally communicate logical to you to so that you believe faith is a circle, nonlinear. Logic is linear therefore it can be traveled along the circle of faith. Your faith is a value. Meanings through place holding values can be represented by x. If x=1, which “1” is a finite value (1 represents the word “finite”), then if it were to be proven that x=0 then everything would have an infinite value. You need to loosen your grasp loose on your own human's potential concept of what an exact value really is and what infinity really is. If you think of everything as a circle, then you can substitute the meaning of infinity into logic in English by efficient communication. I tell you now that the equation of faith is 1=0. But think of the "=" as the "?" and then simplify that once more to the dot of the question mark because a question is English for infinity. An answer is simply another question. Therefore logic within English is solved and answers are concluded by thinking in circles, which is why the faith equation is “1=0” because 1 doesn’t equal zero to you. It didn't make sense to me either until I traveled around the circle of logic. I know I reached the answer because I grasped the concept of infinity. Which is faith and faith is the translation of human evolving logic. It is a math.”
This brings me to a huge point in my manic episode. When I felt that I had discovered that 1=0, that’s when my universe was shattered and I started to do all the crazy things. That’s when I knew something was out of the ordinary with this feeling I had been having for the past few days. That’s when I realized something was VERY different. I didn’t know it. But I was a full blown maniac. I had lost it. But, at the time, I thought I had won it! I thought that 1 did equal 0 and I thought that I had crossed over to the spiritual realm. That’s what led to me believing that I would soon have special powers for example, I tried to walk by moonlight 3 miles on the side of west ox road and turn into a dog by manipulating my shadow with my thoughts.
This is only a summary of the 25 page hand written 1=0 that I have in my journals. Remember, I had written 25 pages of hand written material in about 6-8 hours strait thinking that I had just proved 1=0 which I thought meant I had proved that I was infact dreaming still. At that point I said to myself, Scott, everything is making you feel good why are you still afraid? And I said, I don’t know. And then I said Scott, you don’t have to be afraid anymore.
This is what a manic episode feels like. Everyone thinks manic episodes are scary or dreadful. They are a blast. It’s like waking up one day and saying, I’m going to do whatever the hell I want to do today for 30 days. What people need to understand is just one word.
Inhibition, an inhibition is a feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one from behaving naturally. Inhibition can also be defined as the process of stopping or retarding a chemical reaction.
When I said to myself, don’t be afraid anymore? I then realized that this was going to take time to lose my fears and by fears. I mean all fears. I was trying so hard to lose my fears that I wanted to bend gravity by flying. This is called releasing your inhibitions. Your body releases it’s inhibitions and you feel immense euphoria. Euphoria in my manic episode was something that I chased. I would solve things. I could make any 2 things an equation in my head and try to solve for them. I would come up with a reason for everything.
One day I woke up and said, “Am I still dreaming? I must be.” That day I went downstairs, chucked a portrait across the kitchen, and then proceeded to steal my Mom’s car and take it to Tommy’s house. His mom said, “Did you take your Mom’s car without her permission? I said confidently and boldly, “Yes.” She was stunned so she didn’t say anything more and I didn’t even get in trouble that day because my behavior was so strange that my parents didn’t know what was going on.
Only Bipolar people ever think that they are actually Jesus. It is actually common. But, I got to actually feel like Jesus. Wow! That felt amazing, let me tell you… I named my second album of Safe Bet, “The Second Coming” because I thought I was the second coming of Jesus. The reason why I believed that I was Jesus Christ was because one day on my Safe Bet Myspace it started to glow and shine and when I looked at it for some reason I thought that “The Preacher” (my nickname in the band) meant something religious. I thought I was then having a religious experience. So I then thought I was Jesus when I felt that I had successfully walked on water for 2 seconds. I figured I would have to learn. But, I never told anyone that I thought I was Jesus. It wasn’t until my friend Tommy Cook at the time said to me that he believed that I was Jesus Christ and that he was Saint Thomas. And the weird part is. He actually believed it. And so did about 6 people. Why? For about 2 weeks all of my friends had been puzzles by me making predictions. I would basically tell the future in weird ways. I’ve done things like guessing the first song on my Ipod shuffle infront of Tommy Cook, the song was 1976 by RJD2. Ill never forget that. One day, I told my friend Ziad the instance I saw him, hey dude you’ve been bored for about 2 weeks and just picked up an old hobby. His response? “Yeah dude, I;ve been bored so I picked up guitar again” Coincidence? That same day I was at my friends house Taylor Creighton and he was playing guitar and I said, you’ve been bored all week so you picked up guitar. And he was like yeah how did you know? I said a similar thing to Taylor Thomas the day before. I said, Taylor you’ve been so bored recently and so agitated and it stops you from playing guitar. I was right. This is one of the many bizarre things Taylor Thomas and I had happen during my manic episode. My other friend Martin Lee had witnessed what I had said to Ziad and had already been puzzled by me. There was a good deal of confusion and I had started it. I asked Ziad later what he thought about the incident, he said “It was pretty interesting. It didn’t really freak me out but it was fascinating. It was like, how did he just know that?”
One of my best friends, Tommy Cook, and I had a memorable day exactly 7 into my manic episode. He was the first friend I had seen in 7 days and I had just had 7 days of mania and was at the point I thought I was going to turn into a werewolf that night. I had all of my writings in a bag that ironically says Music=Life in it and a yellow notebook with a spiral drawn on it.
Tommy was the first one to see my writings. He saw this and many other things including my time travel tools. That day, I was wearing my 2 bracelets, non-working watch, and at that point I had a new off colored rainbow hat. It had special meaning to me because at one point I had connected my hat to a song called Sherbert Head by Boards of Canada. So, I thought it was special. I took him to subway bought him anything he wanted because I had just announced that we were not only going to win the lottery but that I could melt plastic with my eyes. I held my drivers license to the ceiling light and tried to focus my eyes so that a laser would form which I could then melt tiny holes. I tried and failed, but of course I thought I had succeeded.
Part 3: Tommy Cook’s Perspective
Mania is the most confusing phenomenon that has ever come into direct contact with my life. When your best friend goes through something so surreal, it is bound to take you along for the ride.
On February 9th I encountered the manic Scott for my very first time. I pulled up the driveway to see him standing outside of his garage, Coke in hand, with a bag full of paper and an assortment of random objects. Bizarre, I thought. What the hell is he getting into now? When he got in the car, he asked me if he looked like a “time traveler.” Strangely, he looked more like a character than usual. A character from a movie, book… I don’t know. He was just a character. He felt like a totally different person to me, even within ten seconds of speaking to him. I don’t know why, but I felt like Scott had a sort of aura of enlightenment. He looked as if he had discovered the greatest thing mankind would ever see.
Part 4: Taylor Thomas’ Perspective
Call it a manic episode, call it whatever you want but in my opinion the case of Scott Bennett was one of extreme perplexity. To fully understand how much this “episode” had affected Scott, one must go back and ask who Scott was beforehand. Before the episode Scott, from my perspective at least, was a laid back musician and friend. A few other friends and I would group at Scott’s house to jam out and mess around on different instruments, in some ways creating music. Scott was always the first one to suggest we all meet up and participate in such musical gatherings. We would do this twice maybe three times a week; we would talk about normal high school things such as girls, grades, parties etc. From what Scott had told me before there was some serious tension between he and his family but from what he told me I processed it as nothing out of the ordinary parent to troubled teen relationship. Until one day, Scott told me he was severely depressed and that he didn’t know why. To me it was no surprise, kids got like that all the time around Oakton. Yet the severity in which Scott felt was far different, I mean to say in the ways he described his pain was much more severe. However this was just foreshadowing to a much larger event.
In Universal theory and concept, everything has already happened, therefore we can see signs of an event about to happen before it actually has, and we are in the past of that event. However, when that event does happen it happens in a split second, the event effects everyone who has been inside or a part of the building up to that event, Those who have been in the event horizon longer, feel the effects longer, those who haven’t, feel the short term events or events they can wave off. People don’t know this but they see foreshadowing of events every single day. One building block that is slowly building up to a much bigger event that we all saw coming but at the same time didn’t at all, who knows maybe our existence is a building block to a bigger event. We see these everyday occurrences as just “coincidences” or minor mishaps little do we know they could very well lead to events much bigger. Yet I digress this paper is about my reaction to Scotts episode. To relate what I am saying, I saw this event coming. I was around every time there was a hint at it.
It all started when I was talking to a friend of a friend of a friend. We hadn’t chatted in a while and somehow our conversation leads to music, and music to Scott.
“Oh you play with Scott Bennett?!” The girl asked
Well one thing lead to another and before I knew it we were talking about (she was talking about) how cute he was. She had concluded our conversation by informing me that she would be very grateful if I were to put in a good word for her. So of course I did. I told Scott that next day about how this girl I knew had said he was really cute (I was hoping that maybe this would raise Scott’s confidence a little and not be so depressed) Scott reacted surprisingly and told me he had barely talked to her. At that point I just dropped it, I was never one to get involved in other peoples business and just let whatever was going to happen between Scott and this girl happen.
About a week had passed before I had heard the news of Scott and his new girlfriend. When I approached him next class we did the high school formality of a corny statement on “getting some” and then a high five. After that, I didn’t really talk to Scott all that much, to me at least he and his new girlfriend spent some large amount of time together, and honestly just coming out of a relationship myself I was rather cynical about “love” and wished not to be a part of it.
Now one may be thinking what does this have to do with Scott’s manic breakdown, and my answer to that is EVERYTHING and NOTHING at all. The girl you see was the event. THAT was what set it all in motion therefore she was the most important thing in Scotts episode and the least at the very same time, an oxymoron yes but I hope I am illustrating my point properly. See, when Scott and this girl broke up it was just the tipping point for the poor kid.
Scott I’md me on the day they broke up.
Scott: She dumped me.
Me: aw damn man why?
Scott: I don’t know haha
Me: oh well whatever it’s just a girl
Scott: yeah…
That conversation right there I felt was normal, kid just got dumped of course he’s going to feel bad. The thing that Scott failed to mention to me was all of the shit that had happened to him leading up to that (or I had thought he did). A lot of it was obvious and I had just tried to help him and treated it as any normal high school issue, so many times Scott had told me he had family issues and was taking medicine, so many times Scott had told me he wished he could lift and play sports but couldn’t due to back problems, and still at this time to me it didn’t make much sense. Not quite yet. However after weeks and weeks of Scott not showing up to school I began to wonder. During our Second period class together I had asked long time friend Tommy Cook where Scott was.
“Scott is really really messed up man…” Tommy had informed me
“What do you mean by that?”
Tommy then informed me that Scott was diagnosed with mono right before the girl had broken up with him. I had immediately just thought “ouch broken heart” how very, very, wrong I truly was.
I had not been around Scott for 2 weeks after the break up and I figured he just needed to get out of the house, you know party, do high school things. So one night there was supposed to be this huge party going on over at a friend of mine and Scotts house, I thought “great this is my opportunity to get him out of the house and back socializing again” I called Scott up and he reluctantly said he would be there. However when I met Scott at the party he was acting extremely abnormal, much less talkative and generally uncomfortable. It wasn’t until about 12 at night when I noticed he had actually gone. Around that very same time Scott’s mother called me and asked where he was. I was at a loss for words and informed her that I had no clue as to Scott’s whereabouts. Apparently someone at the party had told me that Scott jumped the fence and ran off after about an hour within the parties start. The weekend after that I simply thought ok, that was too big for him to start off with, Scott must have had some kind of anxiety about the number of people who had attended, and I’ll do something small for him at my place. This night, was probably the most important night in the entire episode for me, this night Scott Bennett’s manic episode was at this point so powerful that it almost, just almost made manic as well. It started off as just a night at the apartment but later Scott wanted to hang out. We later found ourselves talking about stuff like Space, Music, etc. That was until Scott said something way out of the ordinary. He had told me that he could control what was going on and that he was a superhero and that if he believed so he would not and could not die. He seemed so sure about it that I almost had to believe him. He repeatedly told me over and over again that he was super human, that we all were but we just didn’t know it until he explained to me his ideology. I was sitting there trying to find logic in what he was saying but couldn’t, yet at the very same time a part of me really believed it. Now who knows, don’t we all want to be special? No one wants to be the average person that goes to school, works, comes home and has a normal life. If someone came up to you and told you that you were more than that, that you were something superhuman and altered your frame of mind, would you not believe it? The next day I woke up to find holes in the logic of what Scott was saying but decided to live by his explanation of life and how we lived it, just for a day. And just for that day, I seemed to really believe it. My “belief” strictly became a sudden interest in what was making Scott act in such a way. Every time I talked to him from that point on he had a new concept, a new idea added onto his original preface of color physics and an extreme mind over matter attitude. At one point in time Scott had told me that he could bend light and force color out of a TV screen by wearing 3-D glasses. This I didn’t necessarily believe but it absolutely fascinated me. Scott truly believed in what he was saying. If he thought it, it would be, and if we believed it, it would happen to us. There were many different forms of Scotts’ ideology but that seemed to be the overall concept “ I do it and believe it, good will happen to me, you see it and believe it the good will then happen to you.” now Scott had determined these things to be real by basing light color science to it and with further research I had found that Scott had been able to convince so many people and freak so many people out with predictions due to the fact that he was simply hypnotizing them without realizing it. Scott would freak people out with one particular trick, that was to see a white car, a red car, and a black car, more than any other car on the road, simply because he said so and that these colors had particular meanings. Ladies and gentlemen who read this, what Scott was doing, was a form of marketing. Of course you are going to see more white, red, or black cars if someone says looking right into your eyes, “you will see this more“. You’re brain can’t help it, it has been alerted to see the colors red white and black because of an interesting conversation, and whether you want to or not, the first thing you are going to think about as you look at a white red or black car is that time that person looked you in the eyes and said you will see this. And people didn’t realize it, Scott didn’t realize it, he thought he was an almighty being with the ability to predict human behavior by making them behave a certain every day way. He made what people perceived as everyday not so everyday. He was making people behave in a certain way by unknowingly hypnotizing them to believe so! He would use his confidence in what he was saying to hypnotize individuals into seeing events he wanted them to see! For a better example, Scott would say, I bet I know what you’re week was like, and a curious individual would ask ok what was it like? And Scott would say, with the utmost amount of confidence, it was boring wasn’t it? And for that second, in someone’s brain, since Scott said something so matter of fact, with so much confidence, they would ultimately believe it. They would remember all of the boring times they had in that week and way over analyze them without knowing. This was what people understood, everything else? They could not find meaning for but the fact that Scott had “predicted” their week they were questioning on whether it was real.
One day in about the middle of Scott’s episode Scott tried to tell me that 1 did in fact equal 0. He was so sure, so confident in his explanation that it made me think of possible, logical ways in which 1 did equal 0, he was so sure that there was no way he could be wrong that my brain had to find alternate meaning and so it did. He had told me that 1 was a limit, and that it was human nature to limit things and that if one could truly understand 1 equaling 0 they would break a spiritual realm and come to a completely new level of understanding. For me it was a want of being special and Scott’s convincing that made me think the logical way for 1 to equal 0 was that limits were actually man made and that 1 is as good as 0 due to the nature of man to make limits. Now later I realized how wrong I actually was and my interest in Scott’s behavior grew.
It was all very interesting until one day Scott started telling me that he was the second coming of Christ. Now this for me was far too much to even be interested in. I was one who studied physics and Universal concept (which are two very distinct and widely researched fields) and Scott’s new views and polarity on them, and now Scott had brought a religious aspect into his “color physics” and “creational” ideology that I had once found interesting. Suddenly with the religious part brought in I had lost all of my interest in Scott’s episode, and to me Scott’s once fascinating and astounding view on things just become a cult, with a preacher who could really make people believe. Not taking anything away from Scott though, he truly believed what he had believed and about a couple weeks after I had lost interest, came back down to earth and has now written in detail about his manic episode. During this time, when you talked to him, he didn’t suggest or theorize about things, he knew things. He could time travel by using the light waves and particle acceleration with the right colors. He could predict how someone would act using signs he received from colors he was more in tune to. In Scott Bennett’s mind, he WAS god.
Part 5: The Yellow Notebook
Throughout my manic episode I was constantly trying to persuade people around me that I had special abilitites. I spent 30 minutes trying to do magic tricks on my parents. I spent countless hours talking to Tommy trying to get him to believe me of all my theories. A symptom of mania is excessive talking and Tommy and my parents experienced that the most. It was absolutely bizarre. I actually had no control over the amount that I talked. I would try to go from point A to point B in my conversations but I would get off track instantly and just stay off track until they asked me a question and then I would do it again.
Most people gave me blank stares when I would speak my theories to them. Some names of theories of mine from my yellow book were; Rainbow Theory, Bubble Theory, Circular Theory, and Rubix Theory. Rubix Theory was the thought that I could read the color combinations on the cube to figure out how to move the squares. I tried it a couple times but I never tried it for more than an hour at a time.
This is the first page of my yellow book, this displays how my thoughts were working at the time.
What made me think this…I wrote this because I wanted to find the answer to a question that I had. I am thrilled to find that after writing the question as the title. I had solved a problem. Or should I saw “I had solved the problem” This is more accurate because I had answered the question. And then I had to stop and figure this next thing out…on a separate sheet of paper. I’m back haha, I realized that....stopping is relief. Stop making yourself so sad. We are being so mean to ourselves that we make TV shows that set up Online Predators. It’s sad. Sadness is the sight before happiness. If you start to become sad you feel sad mentally and physically, revealing what makes you sad is the circles of life I just NOW realized. Dictate your mindset to the right pace by seeing the “good” of everything. Setting your mind set to bipolar mode, but feeling unipolar is the goal here because physical actions are the reactions of thinking happy thoughts. If you’re sad… then you can logically think happy. Therefore feel happy. Think of your happiest times and you’ll control your fate. I’m sure you can think of a good one. Go do that again! Why not? I didn’t know what my first thought was but now I do. I wanted to never be suicidal ever. And I just logically proved why not to. I can get this to just a few words. Don’t kill yourself. Life is the evolution. Don’t end evolution. I’m writing a book to myself. No one else will read this. Imagine a time. I am having visions. I can create the future. I was born with creativity. I will see the future. I already know the future? I think in 3 Dimensions. At some point I need to type a double circle book. I understand the meaning of color.
This next part is an excerpt on my early manic writings of my argument that 1=0, my main theory at the time of being manic. This was my foundation argument for existence. I wanted to prove that 1=0 to prove that the concept of infinity cannot be mathematically grasped. This was taken from my hand written paper I called the Human Manifesto.
The Human Manifesto
I will prove to you that you can find the solution to everything occurs by thinking in circles all the way down to the mathematical representation of 1=0.
“.” is a circle. “O” is a circle. A filled in O is a dot. A dot is an open circle because you can believe that there could be an opening within a point that the human eye cannot see. Understanding that a full circle could actually be open is the shape of faith. Mathematically, faith is expressed as 1=0. Your religion is where you set your limit on faith. Christianity is limited faith. It equals “one”; unlimited faith is when you set your faith to zero. Atheism is “zero”. It is unlimited. If a person’s faith is set at one then they are given a value of one. If you see how 1=0 in circles then every number other than “zero” is a subcategory, a limit. That makes Christianity, Islam, and Judaism all are subcategories of Atheism. Being atheist is to believe that 1=0 because they have faith in the God of atheism, “non-absolute zero.” This is circular theory applied to faith, but, there are circles inside of everything. A person asks questions like “why?” because they want a “one solution”. To Christians, Christianity = 1. That is their answer. Atheists are the ones who always asking a question. The differences between the physical and mental levels are the war going on in every human’s mind. We try to relate the 2. It is how we see things. Separate from other animals, humans are capable of waging war and signing peace treaties. So, the question of the physical level is the “What?” and the mental level question is “But what if?” It is a circle. A human’s mentality is a growing circle. Nirvana is when a human grows their circle enough to attain peace while alive. This is mental-aging. Aging of the human mind is growth within humanity. This growth leads to maturity and your mental-age is measurement of your own maturity. Being ignorant is being unaware of the “zero” in maturity. This is being “immaturely ignorant.” Not wanting to be ignorant is having faith in 1=0. This is the mathematical representation of Faith. To have faith is the result of mental-aging.
Language is the basis of human interaction. Other animals only have their instincts. Animals believe in the “zero” but believe that 1 ?0, just like a Christian, a limit is of mental-age is reached. If we know that language is the separation then we know the circle of the origin of humanity’s dominance. The circle of the physical/metal can be applied to language. We can then again apply the circular theory again after finding the values of 1=0. This is what opposites are. “1” and “0” equal each other. Because opposites as the circle in language. We just need to find how to “=” (solve) the opposites. We must find faith to believe in 1=0 because we have faith that everything can be expressed as “2x” when simplified. This is the meaning of “forever” in numbers. The symbol of ? is 2 circles for infinity. You can always fuse the 2 circles of anything into 1 and if 1=0 then 2x is infinity because 2(0) is infinity, which is forever. If 2(0)=0 and 0=1 then 2=0 and 3=0 and 4=0 and 5 and so on. 1=0 is the simplified version of the math equation. “1=0” is what faith is. It is the answer to humanity. It is the human equation. The all of the human is a circle. Humans have invented language, the tool of humanity. There are many. Only 2 are needed in order for a human to function successfully, a “physical” language and a “mental” language. Your thinking language then is your “mental” and Math is the physical. You are born with the instinct of math, but, because humans have reached a point of that the bilingual-mentality, then we have found our “1” and “0” existing in humanity. I only need one language to think in and up to this point you now consider this as English. My most advanced learned math can be limited by looking at my hardest math classes taken, but, I have had 2 hardest Math classes because I have seen Math in 2 different languages. Last year as an 11th grade student at Oakton High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, and I took Computer Science and Pre-Calc Honors. I finished with a D+ (73) in Pre-Calc Honors and a C (74) in computer science. My circle may be growing, but right now I am in retrospect of my education in 2 languages and ironically, I am taking the easiest possible Math class there was to choose. I am taking Probability and Statistics as a senior, a very simple class. I have been a C student when it comes to math all throughout my education. The same can be said for my English and Spanish. History I can get an A in. I had too look back, I had to look at the “0” and then the “1” in my life and once I found the “=” in “1=0” then I discovered the very 1st instinct of any currently living thing. Living things use language. You must be asking "How can 1=0 if Death and Life exists? That is our first “mental” instinct and our “physical” question. Math is the very beginning.
Think of math as the beginning and then apply circle theory to apply the tense of “ing” to math. Language is a subcategory of math. Everything falls under math. All things can be derived ALL ways. A circle, 360*, is going all ways, which is the view of faith. If you think in 360 then you can find faith in 1=0. The setbacks of humanity, all faults, in one group, are what stop us from finding that 1=0. If you find the language of life then you must believe in circular theory because remember how “2x” is infinity and if you take 2 points on an edge of ac circle, you can create infinity by making connections in all ways, which starts by finding 2 points of something. The “x” in “2x” represents one point because once a circle is made, the 2 points disappear. It is now a circle. Infinity is circular and a circle is infinity. This application of 1=0, in English, is saying that the answer to everything is vice-versa circular motion, or, unipolar motion. We can easily find our “1” values and “0” values mathematically everything (including words) is an opposite. Learning from mistakes is the equation “1=0” and “=” is the learning from mistakes part. Everything is a circle. You are a circle. Your mind is a circle. You think in circles. The “=” is the going around in circles. Peace is finding smaller circles. War is finding bigger circles.
This is how I found my conclusions. I found one of my values of 1=0. I am alive. Therefore I see death. Seeing life is what I am trying to do. I think in circles. I try to think in circles. I want to try to think in circles. My “want” is my spiral of temptation in finding the “=” in “1=0”. I had a revelation, humans invented temptation. Temptation is the circle of your consciousness. To believe in 1=0 you must understand the concept of infinity. The sky is the limit. This is the slightly blurry way of something simple. Infinity is the limit. One does equal zero. Zero equals one. Evolving is nature’s way of learning the ways of infinity through living. So if you have this faith then you are a circle. Once you become a circle you are all circles. Human brain potential is said to be 10%. Potential is the measurement of a circle. Humans are only at 10%! Think in circles! If we are at 10% then at one time we were at 9% and hopefully will be at 11% and so on. Believing is seeing. If we look for the 100% then we must look for the 0%. Retrospect is language at -100%. Math, language, infinity, and faith. These are the small circles of life. These are the smallest physical and mental circles that a human can see. To accept death is the final decision a human must make to make a circle out of your life. Not accepting death is suicide is reached. I saw the simplest light a human can see. Have no faith is the result of suicide. If you find faith in “zero” then you set a limit if you don’t find faith in “one!” and “one=zero”. During human life, time makes us measure our faith as death. IF we limit by making 1?0 then we are doomed. Circular Theory can be an answer to infinity because infinity equals the opposite of finite, which is 1=0, and then finally, a circle. A human grows maturely by thinking circles.
Trauma is the opposite of Nostalgia. The distinction of Trauma reaches the ultimate limit of a human being when suicide is accomplished. The smaller circles and bigger circles is how the solution of life is drawn. Finding a way around the circle is how we grow. Mentality of thought in values has a possibility of going “+1” and “-1”. So, human mentality is the point of time we are at in the circle of our mental-age. Time is how we find ourselves as a circle. We are constantly shrinking(“-1”) and growing (“+1”) in our stability. Time is a force. The point in time is the “1” value and “zero” represents how we view life. One must use faith inside of logic and the meaning of “vice-versa”, to find the “+?” of time. I have been looking “+?” because that is what I want. But, I had to travel in a circle of revelation to attain the value of “?” by adding “-?” to my equation. “-?” and “+?” together to make ?, which then proves why 1=0. We see infinite as this shape “?” because we see everything as bipolarized. Good or bad. An unbiased mind is my mind. Human mentality is defined as a spectrum of happy and sad, hot and cold, good and bad, etc. I fought a war in my mind to the point I told myself to stop contradicting myself in my head because I became unbiased towards life. I have an unbiased opinion towards humanity because I changed the way I think. I created a new mind set. I now think in circles because at this point I am on the track of String Theory, which is a circle. Polarized experience of a human can be measured by Trauma and Nostalgia. Individuality is reached by measuring yourself in your own way. If a circle exists in everything, then thinking in spirals is when you find the extremes, the inner circles. Revelations are the roadblocks in mentality that we were able to get over. Revelations are the circles we create. When we make a circle out of 2 opposite emotions, or the human roadblocks, we have our revelations. A revelations is when you want the “+?” in life, but, know that “-?” exists and that together they become just “?”, but more like “0” or even just “.” Every circle filled or not to the human eye is an empty circle. To believe is to have faith. Time is how revelations come about. Time is the “=” of all things. Time is a way to find loop-holes. The unknown of time is a black hole. Memory is the source of data a human uses. Memory is a “sub-circles” of Math which is then a sub-circle of Time. An understanding of Time is measured by patience. “Patience is a virtue, until its silence burns you.” (TV on the Radio) I have repeated that phrase to myself over and over since their album, Dear Science came out. I now realize that I have found many answers in Music. Instead of explaining how I was influenced, I can tell you the results of the influence. These are the results of my life-long obsession with music.
I always thought of music as, “Music will never betray you”. Music is the result of super evolution. It is easy to measure evolution these days by seeing technological and environmental adaptations. Technology is the physical evolution in life. How you adapt to the ongoing environmental adaptations is how you measure mental evolution. We are at a point where we can ask your burning question for me. I will apply the “What?”/”but what if” theory to your mind. I will reveal your unknown temptation that is subtly killing you. I will now show you by doing it to myself.
Your first question after you see the visual of “0=1” when you say there are no such things as exact answers. This question proves that you have faith in “1?0” and your mind applies it into nature. Because to get an exact answer, you have to look at the non-exact answers. Think of your mind as data. Think like a computer. Think binary code. “1 and 0”. After you believe that 1=0 you can find the opposite solution to its opposite solution. Remember that 2x=Time. Time results in evolution. Evolution is the 2. We must use time as our tool of dominance. The simpler circle you can get to the more faith you’ll find and the bigger circles represent evolution. If you don’t believe that this filled circle could have an empty center visually: . then remember how Trauma and Nostalgia work and apply it to your memory of life. This is the “human circle of data”. Our memories are not perfect. That said we are half way to believing in “1=0”. I am able to convince you by translating my circular thoughts during human existence onto paper. You should already see that I am going in circles. Let’s say a 100% contradiction can only reach 100% by total control by some purple alien because nothing is perfect, right? If this “100% Contradiction” were applied to humans. How do you convince someone? I have demonstrated it to you now as words on paper. In English I argue with/convince/fail to convince people frequently. I am arguing all the time. Who isn’t? An argument is a circle. “100% Contradiction” equals “-100% Persuasion”. Again, we see “0=1”. The “-“ sign represents Doubt. Doubt is the inability to overcome fear due to negative thinking. We see negativity as amoral. I see it as a virtue. It is simply a smaller circle of patience. Only in our thinking language does the so-called “negative thinking” hurt us. We are so advanced in language that we are sophisticated enough to kill ourselves, due to the existence of negativity in our mind. But we can’t attribute human emotion yet to negativity until we accept and embrace negativity and see the circle made between the 2 points of “positive” and “negativity”. The human race’s impending doom is because we think “negatively” We must change our mindset, our fate, to believing that “1=0” so that opposites no longer affect us. In darkness, one must find a light to find themselves. The light is within the darkness AND vice-versa! A loop hole within the opposites of Darkness and Light is the logical and literal circle in life. I wrote this entire theory 5 hours after writing the following sentence in the middle of math class, “What made me think this…” Chapter 2 shows the solving spiral I have started to fall through and how I came to these conclusions. They told me I was going through a manic episode, I know it seemed like, but, I wasn’t. What I went through was a mathematical break through. A literal break through..
I also have a bag that says Music=Life on it where I keep all of my loose paper manic writings. These days I reach in, pull something out, and spook myself out. The creepiest one I have found is a post it paper that says…
I
KILLED
MYSELF
IM IN HEAVEN
This is Heaven…
I believed that in my dream, when I wished to die, I had figured that I somehow killed myself in the conscious world because in my dream I had done it in the subconscious world. My world felt so euphoric and energized that everything seemed unreal to me. So, my logic came to conclude that I was in heaven. Interestingly enough, I have actually experienced what it is mentally like to be sent to the devil. I was driving around with some kids that I had just met and some of my friends and the guy driving looked like me and this was on a leap year day and for some reason I thought he was me a year prior. He was even acting like I had been a year earlier. He was even driving the same type of car as mine. I started to freak out and everyone started to half seriously believe everything I said which unfortunately led to me asking them, am I dead? Jokingly they said “Yes, Scott, you are dead and we are bringing you to the devil.” They didn’t realize I was manic at the time so I believed exactly what he said. It was nighttime and I was scared out of my mind and started to confess everything I had done wrong and my last wishes and other things of that nature. That day I had been excited to discover I was in Heaven but when they told me I was going to Hell I thought to myself… “Oh, no I had it all wrong, this is purgatory.”
The following is from a post-it.
When eyes roll back they see Dark. Dark=Subconcious, controlling Dark is slipping into the subconscious. Senses are limits. An unlimited sense is a color. A rainbow is a scale of color. If Life is white and Death is black, then you now agree that I derived color communication from 1=0. There is no limit on color. Not on this dot.
Here is a theory of mine that I found on my computer. It was the primary theory throughout my episode. I actually typed this up while I was manic. This one personally disturbs me because I am actually theorizing about a manic symptom I was experiencing.
Spiral Theory
You will be traveling the route of a Question mark, in Math’s concept of 3-Dimensional perception, literally and mathematically by adding the less complicated language of English to the more complicated language of Math. Meaning is conveyed in language. Meaning is when a human accepts 100% faith in an idea. We think in English and Math. Math is just a simpler version. To take English and Math, you must understand that English is a sub-circle of Math. And for me to convince you 100% of how to answer a question, you won’t see the literal meaning by the symbol that is a Question mark.
You see, I just accomplished my goal of completing the circle of my concept. I started and finished by conveying “The meaning behind Question mark.” It appears I successfully completed a circle, but what I am actually doing is spiraling. My thinking is spiral thinking. This is how solutions are come up with. Learning from mistakes is simply turning your back on fear and spiraling forwards the center of a question. A center of a question is the answer of a question. To you making a complete circle FEELS in your mental state as though you completed a circle. You have faith right now 100% that I traveled successful in a circle. That is what answers a question is. The answer to a question is a circle. A question never ends, therefore it is infinite…right?
The 3 dots I just represented is an ellipsis which is time conveyed in written symbols. To us 3 dots is felt as a pause. 3 moments in time is what a pause is. If time is represented by a dot and time is infinite. Then those 3 dots should be felt as 3 infinite circles. If you put the 3 circles together you get one empty circle. Your mentality’s measurement of emptiness is your physical reaction to the limit of a human eye. The human eye, as a sphere, represents vision. Vision then would be considered to be everything that you see on the outside of your eye. Your pupil is literally seeing the opposite of knowledge as a physical form. You process information incorrectly because of the physical reaction to the mental reaction of Fear. Fear = the unknown. The opposite of Fear is Hope. Fear results in mental sadness, which the physical then computes and chemically reacts. Hope is the result of mental happiness, which then the physical computes and chemically reacts. Hope is happiness. Finding joy is completing a circle of happiness. Going back to the “the physical reaction of the perception of emptiness is one’s chemical reaction to the limit of a human eye.” Zoloft is an anti-depressant that forces your body to chemically feel happy. Being guided by a medicine in order to prevent suicide is a chemical causing you to spiral in the opposite direction of death. This is spiraling outward, spinning out of control. Spinning OUT of control is depression, inability of controlling your mental state. Spinning out is literally a growing ball shape “out” is seen as a direction of a spiral. We physically can grow by going this direction. If we spin out of control we feel anxious and depressed which then makes us so overwhelmed that we physically feel terrible. This can lead to suicide. Suicide is the opposite of life. Life is a measurement of something in time. A limit on something. Death is a limit on Life therefore a measurement of something in time. In order to feel time physically, you have to wait. Your physical self is waiting for your body to process information of the unknown that you are looking at in order to then react by growth. This act of evolution is a chemical reaction to a mental perception. Humans are the only animal that have a math and have a perception of death. They can see a language and a limit. By using language we can change our perception of infinity. Do you remember seeing those 3 dots I drew? Your subconscious processed the act of “an ellipsis is 3 dots which represents a time-line, therefore, after 3 dots. 3 moments are made, which is a measurement in time, therefore I command my physical body to feel a value of time.” The end of time is Death, as seen by human life. We are able to see death and because of math we think in opposites. We think in a bipolar 2-Dimensional empty circle. That is how math is solved. We need to think in circles to solve a question, obviously. What if we were to think in spirals? What if we redefined the concept of infinity to disprove math, while a “number” is a placeholder for an infinite value. But, because we think in a circle, we limit our concept of infinity to that of a placeholder. A placeholder is a limit. The opposite of infinity is limit. Any limit can be mathematically defined as 2x, when x is time. 5 years. 10 days. 2 seconds. 1 moment. If, Infinity is symbolically represented with ? [Definition given by Wikipedia] a figure eight, and time you now know as 2x. Then x is infinity. Time is infinite therefore must be assumed to be infinite correctly. The symbol of a figure eight represents a route, an infinite route. Because we write it out as a figure eight, our concept of time is a circle. A route of a circle is infinite. This is what String Theory is. String theory is saying that the path of infinity can be represented by a circle. String theory is saying that ? travels on the same route as a circle. A circle however is the shape of “O” not a ?. This is because String Theory is currently the smallest concept of time. Going from “?” to an “o” is simplification. This is Math being displayed through English, a sub-circle of Language. Today, the most brilliant mathematicians understand the concept of infinity as an empty ho
About the Author
Scott Andrew Bennett grew up in Fairfax County, Virginia. Known to have high scores in schools and a lot of government workers in the families, Virignia is where Scott has lived his whole life. He was diagnosed bipolar in 2009 and has struggled with life since, but his writing and music allows him to express himself. To visit his music site go to : http://www.myspace.com/songsofscone
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how do i secretly see a therapist?
i think i have social anxiety disorder; i get nervous easily and i over analyse situations of the simplest matter. i have looked at it on google and my symptoms are very similar to what wikipedia says.
i am 16 male and live with my mum. how can i see a therapist and not tell her or let her find out?
also do i have to pay to to see one, or can my doctor give me a pass to see a NHS therapist?
I know exactly what your going through and have asked the same questions! Yes you can!
I couldn't bare the thought of my mam knowing I was seeing a therapist about a suspected mental issue, so I know what you mean.
Your only 16, so it will be free, just go to your GP and tell him/her that you want to see a therapist, also specify that you don't want your mam to know, it's (as far as know) illegal for them to do otherwise, it's called doctor-patient confidentiality.
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