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Originally Posted by LordJeffBuck
You can disagree, but you'd be wrong. Telling a bi-polar patient to stop erratic, impulsive, irrational activity (like drug abuse, spending sprees, hypersexuality, etc.) is like telling a cancer patient to stop growing tumors. Some people (quite a few, actually) refuse to understand that mental illness is a disease, not simply a series of bad choices. When the chemicals in the brain are imbalanced, mental illness results - it is a physiological problem that cannot be overcome by "willpower" or "choice" or "faith in god" or whatever, but rather must be treated medically. Only when the underlying condition (bi-polar disorder) has been successfully treated, can the conditioned activity (drug abuse) then be addressed.
For anyone who is interested in bi-polar disorder, please read the text "Manic Depressive Illness" by Drs. Goodwin & Jamison, two of the leading experts on mood disorders.
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I guess now you would be wrong. Faith in GOD can work miracles. Call it "belief" call it "faith" call it "prayer" call it the power of GOD or whatever you want. GOD's will is mightier than all the forces on Earth. I think it can overcome something like bi polar.
Now, regardless of whatever disease.... I will NEVER condone drug use. I don't care what the "excuse" is. My dumb arss did it when I was in 10th grade.... probably one of the dumber things I've done. No excuse.
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