Hypomania

THIS is what Hypomania looks like. See he's a bit excitable but is very much in control. When he loses his thread he usually finds it again. He talks of crazy ideas, whereas a manic person would see crazy ideas as perfectly rational. He talks about wanting to spend lots of money, says he has no money, then drops in the fact that he has enough for a trip to Colorado. See: self-control. The difference between hypomania and full mania is control.



This guy is funny. He's a bit hypomanic here:~
Citalopram is Cipramil, an SSRI which you shouldn't really take if you're HYPOMANIC.

Real and Fake Mania

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Royle Family Christmas Outtakes

From "The New Sofa" Christmas special 2006

Bock auf Sex?

Specially posted up for Anna Grace in Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA.
"Do you want to have sex?" Who says the Germans have no sense of humour? This is German TV comedy. About sex, of course. You don't need to speak German to follow any of this.
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Speaking Out on Depression (and Bipolar)

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What it's like to be psychotic

What it's like to be psychotic (and manic). This bipolar lady describes it very well:

Psychosis

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I WENT MAD

NO IT'S NOT WHAT I WAS LIKE IT'S WHAT YOU WERE ALL LIKE

THIS IS HOW PEOPLE TALKED TO ME, THIS IS WHAT YOUR BLOGS WENT LIKE, LIKE THIS:

Depression

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Same lady looking well. The mood is if anything slightly "elevated"

Bipolar disorder

This Canadian woman is lying on the street at night talking to camera in the midst of what she says is a manic episode (looks like there's a goodly portion of attention-grabbing going on too "I'm crazy" and all that...)



This is medicated mania; she's still rabbitting away 19 to the 12 though!



If this is mania we're all cyclothymic. Come on man, this guy is in a perfectly ordinary frame of mind. No sign of racing speech, thought derailment, grandiosity, elevated mood or irritability. In short no evidence of even mild hypomania.

He's supposed to have cyclothymia, which is so mild you only get subclinical depression and subclinical mania. In other words totally normal mood swings that only a real hypochondriac would ever feel the need to medicate.

Oh I know why this guy is so obviously losing his mind: he's just had a Red Bull "sugar free of course; God knows what would have happened if he'd had it with sugar". Oh he'd have had a psychotic episode for sure. Sucrose is well known for inducing severe affective episodes. On Mars.

Dr Kay Redfield Jamison: Suicide

Dr Jamison is head of a mood disorders clinic in America. She famously came out as a sufferer of severe bipolar disorder in the 90s with her classic memoir An Unquiet Mind. She is also author of Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament. She's now written a book about suicide.

Open University: Coping with Depression

Coping with depression. This is really good.

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Monkey: Pigsy's 10,000 ladies

MONKEY is cult TV in the true sense. Probably doesn't appeal to everyone. Those to whom it does appear like it very much!

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Acid Visuals

PSYCHEDELIC LSD MUSHROOMS TRIPPY TRIPPING TRIP-TRIP-TRIP VISUALS FOR THE CHEMICALLY UNHINGED!

Latah Boy

Latah syndrome is a cultural and psychiatric phenomenon peculiar to Malaysia-Indonesia where the affected person copies the words and actions of others. In various manifestations it is described as hysterical-dissociative or psychotic.

Spare the rod and spoil the criminal..?

LAW AND ORDER: LET'S HAVE A HEATED DEBATE. Should they bring back the lash for burglars, muggers, rapists and child abusers?

Filmed in a Malaysian prison, this shows an individual getting 20 lashes (on top of a prison sentence) for rape.

It's supposed to be pretty gruesome. His backside is torn open. If I was the victim of serious crime I'd be well pleased if this happened to the offender.

WARNING don't watch if the sight of blood and gore apalls you. And be warned, the still only shows about a third of the way into it.

I tried to find a less gory one but ended up with the same one twice. The first one goes black and white for some reason, but it's less blurry.





Ukh. Well it is pretty nasty. I heard the Tory party want all this. Or they want it back in schools. Anne Widdecomebe wanted it back, I believe.

It was never done quite this viciously at school, where I only remember 3 kids getting caned. Most corporal punishment was done with paddles or shoes and caning was never done on the bare bum. Then again nobody committed rape at my school.

In my view this punishment serves the rapist right.

Please share your comments and opinions below. Should whipping be brought back for burglars and sex offenders? If someone stole my plasma screen TV I'd be delighted to see them get 20 strokes. If my daughter got raped I'd be even more pleased if the bastard who did it got soundly whipped. It's just a shame he doesn't scream more. They're obviously not beating him hard enough.

Newsnight: Does Prison Work?

ROTTWEILERIAN INTERVIEWER JEREMY PAXMAN GOES TO PRISON! Unfortunately he's not banged up, just interviewing staff and inmates... DOES PRISON WORK? 1


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Lord of the Golden Triangle

Khun Sa documentary

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Black Tar Heroin: "dark end"

"Of all the heroin in the world, this is the worst, it looks like shit, it is shit." And that tiny "gram" STICKS TO HIS FINGER... yukh!

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李白 ~ 诗人 ~ 纪录片 Li Bai (Li Po) documentary

Documentary on Li Bai 李白 (aka Li Po), Tang Dynasty poet. Considered the greatest of China's golden age of lyric poets. Mandarin with Chinese (simplified) subtitles.

李白，中国最伟大的诗人。 普通话，中文字幕。


I'm studying Chinese, but I think it will be quite some time before I can follow this:

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Süchtig: Protokoll einer Hilflosigkeit

Addicted: a report on helplessness

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