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"US air marshals on Thursday shot and killed an American Airlines passenger who claimed to be carrying a bomb in his backpack at Miami International Airport."....
this is the quote that caught my attention in particular:
"A woman who said she was an eye witness told NBC television's Miami affiliate, WTVJ, that the man's wife had screamed 'My husband, my husband,' and said he had bipolar disorder and needed medication."
and then america breathes a sigh of relief. he's not a terrorist, he's a whackjob! that explains everything.
i know better than to scream that i have a bomb on a freaking airplane, even when i wasn't on any meds and babbling incoherantly about god knows what. it's kind of like that family guy episode where peter's retarded.
"retard, don't know any better"
"bipolar, i'm going pretend to have a bomb in front of a GODDAMN US MARSHAL"
yeah, valid excuse, douchebag.
i think tomorrow i'm going to just walk around pretending to do obviously illegal things and have a sign around my fucking neck that says "please excuse my dumb ass actions, i'm bipolar."
no, better yet, i'm going to walk around bus stations and parking lots passing out cards with dollar store stickers and heartbreaking messages about how i was in an accident in the iraq war and caught bipolar from a terrorist and i now have to pass out these cards to earn money for my overpriced medication (only overpriced because of terrorists).
fucking asshats. what the fuck.
WHAT?! i'm watching the news, now they're blaming the US marshal for opening fire on a "mentally unstable" passenger. LIKE HE KNEW THE GUY WAS MENTALLY ILL! i mean, do we look different? is there a glow i don't know about? or like some sign that only sane people can see that flies over our heads that the US marshal should have seen and been all like "oh, my bad, you're nuts."
and even if there was, who's to say the guy standing in front of you screaming that he's got a fucking bomb does or does not have a fucking bomb?! he's certainly screaming that he does!
::pant pant::
i'm sorry, but being bipolar doesn't negate being a jackass. it just means your a jackass with bipolar.
just like i'm an giant asshole with bipolar.
feel free to bitch me out for my lack of sympathy.
this is the quote that caught my attention in particular:
"A woman who said she was an eye witness told NBC television's Miami affiliate, WTVJ, that the man's wife had screamed 'My husband, my husband,' and said he had bipolar disorder and needed medication."
and then america breathes a sigh of relief. he's not a terrorist, he's a whackjob! that explains everything.
i know better than to scream that i have a bomb on a freaking airplane, even when i wasn't on any meds and babbling incoherantly about god knows what. it's kind of like that family guy episode where peter's retarded.
"retard, don't know any better"
"bipolar, i'm going pretend to have a bomb in front of a GODDAMN US MARSHAL"
yeah, valid excuse, douchebag.
i think tomorrow i'm going to just walk around pretending to do obviously illegal things and have a sign around my fucking neck that says "please excuse my dumb ass actions, i'm bipolar."
no, better yet, i'm going to walk around bus stations and parking lots passing out cards with dollar store stickers and heartbreaking messages about how i was in an accident in the iraq war and caught bipolar from a terrorist and i now have to pass out these cards to earn money for my overpriced medication (only overpriced because of terrorists).
fucking asshats. what the fuck.
WHAT?! i'm watching the news, now they're blaming the US marshal for opening fire on a "mentally unstable" passenger. LIKE HE KNEW THE GUY WAS MENTALLY ILL! i mean, do we look different? is there a glow i don't know about? or like some sign that only sane people can see that flies over our heads that the US marshal should have seen and been all like "oh, my bad, you're nuts."
and even if there was, who's to say the guy standing in front of you screaming that he's got a fucking bomb does or does not have a fucking bomb?! he's certainly screaming that he does!
::pant pant::
i'm sorry, but being bipolar doesn't negate being a jackass. it just means your a jackass with bipolar.
just like i'm an giant asshole with bipolar.
feel free to bitch me out for my lack of sympathy.
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we all know that mental illness can bring a whole lot of tumult into our brains and make everything seem bleak and hopeless...maybe his wife wouldnt leave him be long enough to kill himself, so he did what only his fucked up, inbalanced mind told him to do when in a distressing situation...i cant do it myself, theres an easy way to get the job done! *i got a bomb in my backpack!* boom. end of story...HOWEVER, if youre going to play the *asshole with bipolar* card, id really encourage you to go back and tag and then read every one of your journal posts wherein you are in bipolar distress...you may not remember them all, (and many have been deleted with old journals) but there have been quite a few where you have said some pretty disturbing things...you have mentioned suicide more times than i could even count, and threatened it as well...and then you rant more when people dont take you seriously...this IS your journal, and you CAN say what you want...but dont tell a person thank you for being concerned, and then make a joke about how your silence has inspired all kinds of query regarding your safety in the same breath...one day youre going to have the police at your door trying to save your life when the wrong person took you seriously...either that or theyre going to come in and investigate that horrid smell after a week when no one heard you cry wolf for the last time...authorities take threats to oneself as seriously as they take threats to others...and no one but you knows when you really wanted to die or when you just wanted someone to hug you and comfort you and tell you everything was going to be alright...
my point, is that people say stupid shit when they are in the midst of mental health trauma...really stupid shit...and its hard to know whats serious and whats not, considering each person/situation/circumstances is/are different..at least, thats how its been in my experience....experience with not only myself (ive done and said a whole lot of really REALLY stupid shit), but also the ex boyfriend who mentioned ending it all so many times in one night that i forced him to go to the emergency room with me, wherein *i* was made into the asshole who cared because he clearly wasnt suicidal...he was just pretending to be, for my sake...how nice...
and that, is how i feel about the situation.
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so then, it's okay for me to do whatever i want because i have bipolar disorder because the american public will understand. rock on!
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once the investigation starts i can see it becoming relavent, but don't sensationalize it right off the bat.
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last night when i was laying in bed mulling it over the whole "maybe he was commiting suicide...." popped into my head... maybe we were trading brainwaves. it's been said that bipolar people are supposedly really creative, that's certainly a really creative way to do it, especially if under heavy supervision like you said. i wonder if when they investigate if they'll take that into consideration?
as for threatening suicide... when i asked for help i needed it, i wasn't threatening anything. when i needed someone to come sit with me it was because i felt i was a danger to myself and i knew i couldn't be alone. it wasn't a cry for help. the one time i didn't ask was the time i ended up getting my stomach pumped at lakewood hospital and ended up in the psych ward at lutheran. i've stopped wanting someone to tell me everything's going to be alright because i know it's not, and that's life.
i was suprised someone was concerned after i hadn't posted because i go through spurts of not posting and didn't really think much of it - plus moving and not having internet and all, and i thought it was nice of you to care so i thanked you.
a lot of my rants may be misconstrued as suicidal, there's a lot that has gone on in the past year that is very private that i kind of coded so that really i only knew what i was talking about. its been a painful year, but i did go back, and some rants i found i was talking about my relationship or my job and it did sound like i was talking about ending my life, but that's just my poor choice of words and trying to hide things. sometimes i meant for them to be private posts and forgot to click the thingy (funny story, that's actually what triggered the breakup...)
my whole point is why is it that it's even mentioned in the breaking news? "so and so did this and that and suffers from random mental illness x" does that mean what they did is less severe? if joe blow who's sane as fuck did the same thing they'd be motherfucking his name up and down each side of the law... i'm admittedly ambivilant on the situation, but i'm leaning a lot more toward the WTF side. every time i hear about a crime while i'm watching the news i'm like "god that's horrid" and almost as a garnish they throw in "they suffered from mental illness." why can't they throw in "they suffered from low blood sugar" sometimes? that causes people to do equally as crazy shit sometimes!
woo, i rant too much. time to take my meds... just kidding, lol.
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i think that when the news says *such and such just shot his sister in the eye, and then skull fucked her and oh, by the way, hes schitzophrenic* those are two pretty relevant things...not in a *blame everything on mental illness* sort of way, but chances are, dude wouldnt have shot his sister in the eye, and then skull fucked her had he NOT been schizophrenic...there are different levels of mental illness, and not only that but not all people then TREAT mental illness, and beyond that, if it is treated, its not always treated PROPERLY! so if dude was at a point of mental crisis, and he happened to be bipolar, and needed his medicine, do you think that maybe he might have been alright had he gotten his medicine in time? thats more what im trying to say...every one of us with menal issues blames a certain amount of misfortune on them...if they didnt cause problems, they wouldnt be disorders, illnesses or diseases...theyd just be labelled ecclectic eccentricities..if dude was bipolar, and needs meds to be normal, he should have been responsible enough to take the proper amount of meds, and then some with him on vacation...and his wife should have checked as well...unfortunately, with mental illness comes a certain amount of responsibility that we have to take for ourselves..not all people do so, and as we see, it can lead to tragedy...
so such and such has low blood sugar, and they stole a carton of oj from the grocery store cause they didnt have money for it, but they felt like they were going to pass out without it...its related to the story that this person needed the oj to stay conscious, and can be inferred that if they werent feeling ill, they wouldnt have stolen the juice...lame example,but this person should know they have problems with low blood sugar and be aware of warning signs and not leave the house without candy or cash to buy food with..its still the low blood sugar acting up which made him switch into fight or flight mode and steal the juice, however...doesnt make it right, but its an explanation nonetheless...
fuck were out of time! i gotta get ready for work...
hey, thanksk for not taking this too personally and/or as an attack, i was just tring to show a different angle.
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admittedly untreated it can be a bastard of a disease.
but on the other hand, it's also not something that you can take a pill and it'll go away. pop your lithium suddenly everything's fine? no. you have to have been keeping up with your meds, in which case you NORMALLY wouldn't flip like that.
but yeah, i do see your point(s)
and i always appreceate a good well balanced argument ;)
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