Just started the video but, can't wait. As a disabled kid when this song came out (well, teen...) this band helped me get through sue ice adal times. I was bullied for my deformities and disability, I had nothing but music.
Loved this reaction! Not long after this song came out a friend of mine was diagnosed with bipolar and we were at the start of high school. It was a bit rough. She felt like this song helped.
As someone with rapid cycling bipolar, this really resonates with me. So far, my medications haven’t completely stopped my mood episodes; they just dampen them. There’s this constant tension between wanting to give in to mania and knowing what’s good for me. Sometimes I wonder how much I could achieve, creatively and academically, and how euphoric I could feel, without medication. With that being said, I always weigh the pros and cons of stopping medication and KNOW that the cons outweigh the pros. It’s super helpful to be a university student, it keeps me focused on schoolwork and surrounded by people who encourage me to keep up with treatment. ❣️ Just my perspective on this! Great job on the video. Conveys a lot of how I feel. It’s hard, for sure.
Please talk more about mixed states in bipolar because the presentation can change multiple times a day during a mixed episode. I have mixed states and I was in denial of my diagnosis because people don't talk about mixed states. I genuinely thought it was PD untill my psychiatrist told me it was a mixed state! Please talk more about it 🙏🏻
Ah, the irony. I woke up at 3am worrying about something and told myself I shouldn’t pick up my home. I gave in when it was obvious I wasn’t going to sleep anyway, and here you are talking about sleep hygiene. Lol!
This song really interests me. It gives me the impression that the singer with bipolar in this song misses how they felt prior to lithium. I don't have bipolar but I was augmented onto lithium for medication resistant major depressive disorder (I do have other diagnoses but the lithium isn't for that). I feel happier and my dangerous behaviours have reduced. I feel like there is such a contrast between her experience and mine. Still love listening to this song though. It is in my main Spotify play list that is like 2000s music lol
One of the side effects can be emotional numbness. I had a period of that and I was so desperate to feel anything physically or emotionally I have permettent scars. Just a possibility. I know I am doing much better now that I am a mood stablizer that works.
i definitely agree. as someone with bipolar, i have a lot of perspectives of it. on one hand, i think it’s beautiful that i can experience emotions and life in a different, heightened way that others can’t. it’s also scary, though, and destructive. so there’s this tension between wanting to feel everything,but knowing that if i did, it would end poorly.
I mean I'm on a relatively small dose. I'm on a lot of other medications making the levels in the therapeutic range at a very low dose. This might contribute. I do understand that emotional numbness can be difficult. For me I had chronic SI and was in and out of ICU and hospital due to the side effects of SI. I pretty much have had zero SI since starting lithium in February this year so while I don't experience the numbness I feel like I would prefer the numbness over the risk on my life. Just the way I look at it for me. I understand everyone's experience is different like with all medications and therapies.
@@nicoleseymour523 For sure. I mean they literally do genetic testing to see what medications work best for you too. They have me on Seroquel and it has been great. But I know it doesn't work for everyone.
serious question. I'm schizoaffective and I've noticed that in general I don't sleep a lot. I often stay up 18+ hours at a time before I go to sleep (or nap). then I'll have episodes where I'll stay up even longer and sleep even less. sometimes this weird thing happens where I'll get tired and take a quick nap and when I wake up it's like someone jump started me like a car or something. I jolt awake anxious with a high heartrate almost like someone pumped adrenaline straight into me. it happens a lot if I try to go to sleep earlier than I normally do. so anyway, my question is... can sleep trigger mania? I also dream more and sometimes get woken up by hallucinations as well if I go to sleep earlier than normal. is that a normal thing for people with these kinds of disorders?
Lithium sucks, Amy Lee is not wrong. It should be noted that she has never taken it and the song is more of a metaphor, but it is still pretty spot on. It is not the only psych med that sucks out your will to do anything and causes you to lose yourself. If your mental condition is manageable on its own - this is through many years of painful med trials - it is always better to not be on meds. If you need them, you need them - pray that it doesn't damage you - but also demand help to deal with the side effects, especially weight gain. Nothing makes a MH illness worse than weight gain. Whenever a clown suggests one of these types of meds, I ask for a weight loss med upfront. They have always said no so that tells me that they want to hurt me, so I decline and fire them.
Just started the video but, can't wait. As a disabled kid when this song came out (well, teen...) this band helped me get through sue ice adal times. I was bullied for my deformities and disability, I had nothing but music.
I was the one who recommended this! Great video, thanks for reacting to it ❤️
Thank you so much for the recommendation!
Some of the lyrics hit hard for depression too, such an amazing song
You better not apologise for yammering, doc. That's what I'm here for❤
‘I wanna stay in love with my sorrow’
Sometimes it can also be that your sorrow is familiar and letting go of the familiar can be frightening.
Singer's name is Amy Lee.
The goddess Amy Lee! Can’t forget the goddess part. 😌
Me: *watching this at 4AM* ...
Loved this reaction! Not long after this song came out a friend of mine was diagnosed with bipolar and we were at the start of high school. It was a bit rough. She felt like this song helped.
As someone with rapid cycling bipolar, this really resonates with me. So far, my medications haven’t completely stopped my mood episodes; they just dampen them. There’s this constant tension between wanting to give in to mania and knowing what’s good for me. Sometimes I wonder how much I could achieve, creatively and academically, and how euphoric I could feel, without medication.
With that being said, I always weigh the pros and cons of stopping medication and KNOW that the cons outweigh the pros. It’s super helpful to be a university student, it keeps me focused on schoolwork and surrounded by people who encourage me to keep up with treatment. ❣️
Just my perspective on this! Great job on the video. Conveys a lot of how I feel. It’s hard, for sure.
2 Words: "Emotional Dysregulation", E.D .
Please talk more about mixed states in bipolar because the presentation can change multiple times a day during a mixed episode.
I have mixed states and I was in denial of my diagnosis because people don't talk about mixed states. I genuinely thought it was PD untill my psychiatrist told me it was a mixed state!
Please talk more about it 🙏🏻
Ah, the irony. I woke up at 3am worrying about something and told myself I shouldn’t pick up my home. I gave in when it was obvious I wasn’t going to sleep anyway, and here you are talking about sleep hygiene. Lol!
Phone not home…I clearly need more sleep!
This song really interests me. It gives me the impression that the singer with bipolar in this song misses how they felt prior to lithium. I don't have bipolar but I was augmented onto lithium for medication resistant major depressive disorder (I do have other diagnoses but the lithium isn't for that). I feel happier and my dangerous behaviours have reduced. I feel like there is such a contrast between her experience and mine. Still love listening to this song though. It is in my main Spotify play list that is like 2000s music lol
One of the side effects can be emotional numbness. I had a period of that and I was so desperate to feel anything physically or emotionally I have permettent scars. Just a possibility. I know I am doing much better now that I am a mood stablizer that works.
i definitely agree. as someone with bipolar, i have a lot of perspectives of it. on one hand, i think it’s beautiful that i can experience emotions and life in a different, heightened way that others can’t. it’s also scary, though, and destructive. so there’s this tension between wanting to feel everything,but knowing that if i did, it would end poorly.
I mean I'm on a relatively small dose. I'm on a lot of other medications making the levels in the therapeutic range at a very low dose. This might contribute. I do understand that emotional numbness can be difficult. For me I had chronic SI and was in and out of ICU and hospital due to the side effects of SI. I pretty much have had zero SI since starting lithium in February this year so while I don't experience the numbness I feel like I would prefer the numbness over the risk on my life. Just the way I look at it for me. I understand everyone's experience is different like with all medications and therapies.
@@nicoleseymour523 For sure. I mean they literally do genetic testing to see what medications work best for you too. They have me on Seroquel and it has been great. But I know it doesn't work for everyone.
serious question. I'm schizoaffective and I've noticed that in general I don't sleep a lot. I often stay up 18+ hours at a time before I go to sleep (or nap). then I'll have episodes where I'll stay up even longer and sleep even less. sometimes this weird thing happens where I'll get tired and take a quick nap and when I wake up it's like someone jump started me like a car or something. I jolt awake anxious with a high heartrate almost like someone pumped adrenaline straight into me. it happens a lot if I try to go to sleep earlier than I normally do. so anyway, my question is... can sleep trigger mania? I also dream more and sometimes get woken up by hallucinations as well if I go to sleep earlier than normal. is that a normal thing for people with these kinds of disorders?
Nice, you could also react to Twisted Mind - Avantasia
Lithium sucks, Amy Lee is not wrong. It should be noted that she has never taken it and the song is more of a metaphor, but it is still pretty spot on.
It is not the only psych med that sucks out your will to do anything and causes you to lose yourself.
If your mental condition is manageable on its own - this is through many years of painful med trials - it is always better to not be on meds.
If you need them, you need them - pray that it doesn't damage you - but also demand help to deal with the side effects, especially weight gain. Nothing makes a MH illness worse than weight gain. Whenever a clown suggests one of these types of meds, I ask for a weight loss med upfront. They have always said no so that tells me that they want to hurt me, so I decline and fire them.
Or drug?
God bipolar 😂😂😂...
your such a sweet person, would love to know your story
There No such thing As an X Drummer
This is one of my favourite comments of all time 🧡
How are you talking through facial ques?? Way too much! Unless you have heard of before. Sound like you like the sound of your voice.
Thirteenth!