i believe the shape of madness is approximately 5' 11" tall african american ? Muslim religion, grayish colored hair with some black in it. pushed a health reform bill thru the houses.. i believe he is true madness in shape and form, some say evil i say madness..
He just thinks that's it cause he forgot to look in the mirror.
It can takes many shapes, imo. When I'm in the thick of depression it's massive and gray and slows me down to the point where I'd rather die than deal with the sadness that is life.
Or it can be shifting and jagged and amorphous, which for me is the shape of anxiety. It has the soundtrack of Bach played at 78 rpms. One doesn't hear much about rpms anymore, does one?
But now that I meditate I keep those two buggers under control.
Thank you. I really struggled with it for a while, but then I met this amazing therapist who helped me start meditating again. He also practices something called Narrative Therapy, which was just perfect for me because basically you write your "story." And once it is written, you a) acknowledge and understand that it is fiction as are all "stories;" and b) you see where you can edit and change your story, not the facts but your way of dealing with them. That and meditation were a powerful combination for me. I can see how people succumb to depression and anxiety; they can overtake and overwhelm.
Oh and the best part is that my therapist became my best friend and he's even going to visit us after we move. Isn't life funny?
Could be...
No, no. That's not me.
"Bipolar" describes how some of us fluctuate between periods of depression (which pretty much everybody understands) and extreme highs, where everything seems to be connected and you seem to be personally operating on, like, some supercharged intellectual high.I dunno. I've only ever experienced depression and anxiety. I don't know much about the other schtuff. I never understood how "bipolar" is different from them either, not really.
I've talked to many therapists over years (going back to a few years after my sister died when I was a teenager), and many tried to get me into cognitive therapy. The notion there is that there's something wrong with your thinking and you need to think differently. I never understand how you turn your thinking off and on like some damn faucet. But the narrative therapy where you get to write and edit stories made great sense to me. I really think mental health is all about finding the thing that works for you, so narrative therapy and meditation are just right for me.
C'mon you other poets. I know I'm not the only (occasionally) crazy one here. Oh far, far from it.
"Bipolar" describes how some of us fluctuate between periods of depression (which pretty much everybody understands) and extreme highs, where everything seems to be connected and you seem to be personally operating on, like, some supercharged intellectual high.
I don't have this, at least clinically, though I have had at least one friend who did, and who committed suicide in his down phase. I have been diagnosed (once, a long time ago) with clinical depression, though.
I think your take on therapy is exactly right. Different therapies work for different people. My best therapy is to walk. A lot. It increases, among other things, serotonin levels, which works for me.
So, when I get down, I try to walk. And walk and walk and walk.
If nothing else, it makes me tired of being depressed.
i understood the individual words but the whole kinda gets distorted when i try to understand it. i'm sure YOU can explain it to me, UYS
