1205 wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2019 11:41 am
nikkiboy wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2019 10:56 am
I think we all have issues ourselves or that effect a close one, had quite bad OCD when I was a teenager but have learned to live with it and at times embrace it because in certain circumstances having it is actually a benefit, not when you walk a mile back to the house to check you've closed a front door that you've already checked four times it's not. Little 'routines' make that kind of thing a rarity mind.
It is what it is.
Affect. That's just my brain following rules.
Two miles of exercise is good for you, though.
Someone close to me has depression (hereditary, probably exacerbated by other trauma) and says they probably survived because it hit hard when they had a dependent. Generally managed OK with medication, but the lows are sometimes difficult.
Also know someone who's had 2 psychotic episodes. Fortunately they have an understanding employer. The first episode had some very unpleasant and upsetting behavior, and when they become belligerent they were taken away. The 2nd time there was a proactive response, and the behavior was just odd rather than unpleasant.
I find this discussion on mental health interesting. It reminds me that when Wade had what appeared to be an episode, bordering on psychotic, at the World Championships, I didn't find the media or people on this forum were very understanding. Despite the fact that people know he's bipolar, the pundits and media seemed to ignore it in initial reports and some on this forum reacted as if it was being used as an excuse for his behavior, rather than something that informs his behavior. Maybe it's because it didn't fit with people's assumptions of a manic episode.
I listened to a programme on radio 4 last night where they took a lad who had been excluded back to one of the schools which excluded him so he could ask why.
He was excluded for constantly fighting, biting and hitting teachers and general unruly behaviour every single day, some years after they diagnosed him with ADHD and he got some help and now admits he should have been excluded for his behaviour but still blames the school for excluding him, he was barred from I think 4 schools in total, one being a special school.
The conversation consisted of the teacher telling him he was unruly and refused to listen to anyone, getting violent when he didn't get his own way and him saying yes he was but they should have helped.
On the one hand I can see that more understanding may have helped him but on the other if he's going to bite and hit teachers then he has to go otherwise the authority of those teachers vanishes overnight and they end up with a whole school of children who believe they can do what they wish unchallenged.
The change in the lad's behaviour now is striking, is it drugs, the attention or getting a reason for his past so he can move on?
Don't know but I do still believe that
some people use their diagnosis as an excuse for behaving like they know they shouldn't, almost as if it's not me it's my XXXX which makes people who have never experienced similar episodes suspicious as to whether it is correct or not.
As for affect/effect - had already changed it, initially I presumed it was a past tense statement so put effect but then realised it is also an ongoing or present statement which made affect the correct word.
