You're Up Then You're Down

Yesterday it was announced that Catherine Zeta Jones was taking some time off to head to the Psych Ward to get some R&R because her mental disorder was acting up. Catherine suffers from Bipolar disorder. Why did this need to be announced on the National News? Why do people still find mental disorders soo intriguing? If she had announced she was in the hospital due to, say she had Diabetes, none of this would be thrown in our faces over the television and internet. Over the past handful of years we have seen many celebrities in the throws of mental illnesses. And all of it makes more and more interest occur in Americans to sit back and watch. It's a shame and it needs to come to an end.

Over the past year and a half that I have been writing for this blog, I have announced that I suffer from a mental disorder myself. What I have is not anyone's business but let's just say it's pretty similar to what Catherine Zeta Jones has. If you wish to look into that further go ahead. It's not a death trap. It's not a disability. It's something that is very manageable with the correct therapy and medication. I am a completely normal person, as is Catherine Zeta Jones. Did I make the news? Absolutely not. So why are Hollywood hotties such hot topics when they hit a tricky time and have to take some time to get everything back in tact? Or if Lithium is found in Britney Spears purse? It's a disease that medication plays a huge factor, just like making sure you take your insulin when you have diabetes. Below is a lovely list of people you may know that have Bipolar Disorder. In this list you will see that these people have created some of the best work in the world and most are also considered geniuses. As I have said this before, those are more likely to fall into this if they have it in their genetics, very creative souls that use their left side of the brain more than the rational right side, or from experiences in your life. All of these can lead or help bring out Bipolar Disorder. It's not a curse or a case where you can no longer live life as you know it. No, it is not curable but it is treatable and if treated correctly you are likely to lead a wonderful normal life.

A few Celebs that you may know that have Bipolar Disorder

DMX(betcha didn't know that, huh!)

Catherine Zeta Jones

Russell Brand

Mel Gibson

Macy Gray

Ozzy Osbourne

Axl Rose

Pete Wentz

Emilie Autumn

Jim Carey

Ben Stiller

Jimi Hendrix

Britney Spears

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Mel Gibson

Sting

Along wth Many More

......and others who have been unofficially diagnosed but display clear symptoms and actions of Bipolar persona's: Eminem, Kurt Cobain, Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, etc.

Mental Disorders need just the same care as psychical disorders and are NOTHING to be ashamed of but should not receive all the extra attention that they do. We are normal people with normal lives and treat the disease just as you would treat any disease. No pity needed and this should not be making national news. To all of my peeps out there just like me, just want to say I know and we can do this! xoxoxo

*I am not saying by any means that this is an easy disease to live with. I live it everyday and curse about it! It takes a lot of courage and hope just as any other physical or mental disease, but it is manageable.

Please watch this small excerpt on Britney and how Dr. Phil says how great shes doing. I just love it!

http://perezhilton.com/2011-04-01-dr-drew-talks-about-britney-spears

P&L

S

There's A Lack of Color Here....

I'm having a lack of passion right now, in every spectrum of my life, so when I go to write every evening I usually quit after a few sentences because well if it's not up to my perfectionists ways, I just don't want it on here. Not saying that these writings are perfect. They are FAR from. And yes if you were wondering, I am still looking for a proof reader so if anyone needs college credit in the literary world let me know and you can get to work! With that aside, like i said I just don't have any passion right now for my writing and until I do I just cannot write. My personal view on this is the weather and how downhill it has gone and when this occurs I naturally go into suicidal hibernation like most. Well I'm not suicidal this time but hibernation is a good explanation of what I have been up to. yeah I may be running around like crazy for 6 hours of the days and seem to have it all on track, which actually I do, but then with the other 18 hours.....I sleep. Yes, for the entire time. Okay we're gonna watch a movie here.


And when I see you
I really see you upside down
But my brain knows better
It picks you up and turns you around
Turns you around, turns you around

If you feel discouraged
That there's a lack of color here
Please don't worry lover
It's really bursting at the seems
Absorbing everything
The spectrum's a to z

This fact not fiction
For the first time in years
And all the girls in every girlie magazine
Can't make me feel any less alone
I'm reaching for the phone

To call at 7:03 and on your machine I slur a plea for you to come home
But i know it's too late
I should have given you a reason to stay
Given you a reason to stay [x3]

This is fact not fiction
For the first time in years


P&L
S

Keep on, Keeping on

I was watching a random channel last night when a segment on a young high school aged boy came on. One thing was different though, he had lost his sight when he was 10. He seemed like the sweetest most charming young man. Played football, blind, for his high school team and spoke many many words of wisdom that were just beyond his years. His biggest fear is to get his sight back. Most of us sit here and think how awful it would not to have sight but he finds it to be one of his advantages. If you think about it, he may have exactly the right idea. How awful is this world that we live in today? Basically being judged on looks alone, everyone feels they must get plastic surgery to be secure enough to leave the door. It's all very sad. But the worst is the violence and the sadness that hover over us everyday. He imagines the world in all its colorfulness and beauty and leaves no room in his imagination for harm. This is why he doesn't want his sight back......to have to see what we see. It was beautiful the way he put it and I'm very sorry if I am not portraying the story correctly but I'm trying. The last but most important thing he said was "If you have a disability don't use your disability. Instead use it as a leg and run." This really hit me hard because I do sometimes sit and dwell on "what if I didn't have this and gosh my life would be better if everything could just be normal?!"

Of course these are normal thoughts for us with disabilities but we really just need to feel blessed with what God has given us because we were given disabilities for a reason. At first you get so made at God and can't understand why.....why you? What did you do to deserve this? But in all reality, God trusted in us to be able to handle these illnesses and disabilities to be able conquer and become much stronger than others. It took me years to realize this but this young man realized it right away. Whether it be blindness, loss of hearing, diabetes, eating disorders, cancer, manic-depression, or heart disease. The whole goal of everything is to get better and except that you are not normal and once you do......use it as a leg and start running! Never be scared to show your scares and battle wounds, and never stop chasing your dreams.

P.S. I am going to try to find this segment and I will post it. It's truly amazing.

Peace and Love

S