Diabetes Talking

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if you are lying awake with a dreadful headache    and your caterpillars fail to travel a chenille bedspread properly, if you are walking a line with a tall ostrich hat    and your clothing slips demurely from under you, if you are riding a horse with your hair all unfurled    and your garments commit a breech in decorum by splitting,    you might be bipolar or you might be a writer with a peculiar fashion    sense.    i come from the feathered and besequinned and occasionally besotted    school of fashion.  i gave up marinating my mind and my garments in    generic chablis or crown royal with amaretto fifteen years ago.  i    had quite the reputation on the dog show circuit because i would    pass out cold with half a glass of fine wine.  the wicked women    and men who knew this would pile all the wine glasses and bottles    of brew arould me and prop me up with my straw hats.  they then    would grab a photographer and document my scandalous behaviour.    they say the breeding of dogs alters character adversely.  i    enjoy my pillow pets which came to me the girl with the big blue    eyes who drank everyone under the table.  ah scandal.  my pets    have been as fortifying to my heart as a fine brew. depression which suddenly changes into irritability or a sudden increase in strange powers…if you visit pluto often on release for good behaviour in braiding saturn’s wings, you might be bipolar. bipolar is correlated with a family history of generosity, where a person gives away all material goods and walks away whistling a happy tune. bipolar is also correlated with a high rate of opium, heroin, or alcohol addiction in first degree relatives.  ah opium, my bane, my bitter yet sweet brush with addiction. the rather rude assumption all poets are mad may be a true one. at times medical diagnoses can be very cruel in their treatment of lyric poets.  but lyric poetry is a very harsh gift to handle well.  most lyric poets i know are almost silent except for rare passages of extreme depression.  one third of all top poets die from suicide.  this makes mediocrity a welcome goal in the art of herding words.  in general i would not invite a lyric poet to a cocktail party, as they wear inappropriate expressions of tragic grief.  i visit my poet friends in zoos, in playgrounds, in places where we find some chance of peanuts popcorn and a prize. if you are afraid very afraid of careening out of control, if you evaluate every action you take with some shame, you might be at high risk of being bipolar.  or you might have been raised by drug abusers, or adults who were themselves bipolar.  it is possible for depression to be a learned behaviour.  unresolved and repeated episodes of major depression in adolescence are markers for bipolar disorder. adults who were raised by drug abusers are at risk of all sorts of psychiatric diagnoses in particular the cocktail party oh yeah so you too are an adult child of alcoholic parents party line. run do not walk to the nearest exit and run far away from those so rude to presume that family history is destiny. correlation is just that.  a clustered set of relations.  but correlation is not causation.  even with a family history of drear drear sad events two thirds of children show some resilience.  genetics is a crap shoot.  some children get all their marbles, others get the illnesses…in my extended family we were raised in litters, with children not granted identity as individuals in terms of how family resources are divided.  siblings are responsible together as a unit for the adults.  the eldest child is keeper of memories, and the caretaker for all siblings.   family structure can be a blessing or a curse.  in most families there is a bit of both. enough said.  bipolar is the depression you cannot overcome by will or talk therapy. malinda melynda reid   who wears hats but does not type caps   snail: p o box 378 greensboro, florida 32330

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<Posted and Mailed to Melynda <Everything Snipped Welcome back Melynda — the lady who wears hats — but won’t type CAPS! I have missed your and your husband’s posts! Although diabetic — I no longer follow the diabetes NG due to lack of time. But I do attempt to contribute to the two md groups as I am able. When I am more alert, I would very much like to explore the possible effects of diabetes on mental illness. For example questions like the stupefying mental FOG (currently clouding my brain) could be diabetic related? When I think I can communicate more intelligently, I will read and respond to your three posts that my ISP’s News server has received so far. Wishing you and yours all the best from, James — * Since I do not get a complete Newsfeed, I would appreciate receiving * * a copy of any responding posts. Please also indicate if you are      * * posting as well as emailing me. Thanks for helping me out!           *

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if you are lying awake with a dreadful headache   and your caterpillars fail to travel a chenille bedspread properly,

sniped for brevity. Once again,I have learned a lot about diabeties from this long rant,which should be in alt.support depression. — Mark.  Diabetic Type 1. [10 yrs.] Humalog and Ultratard.

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<Posted and Mailed to Melynda <Everything Snipped Welcome back Melynda — the lady who wears hats — but won’t type CAPS! When I am more alert, I would very much like to explore the possible effects of diabetes on mental illness.James

Well Melynda would certainly be a good subject for your study. e-mail would definitely be the way to go. — Mark.  Diabetic Type 1. [10 yrs.] Humalog and Ultratard.

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