Surprise your pig (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} xnoybis) wrote,@ 2007-05-04 02:41:00 |
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Compulsive thinking
A very sad example of the disease that's affecting most people today:
"Jenny, 34, describes how her husband's brilliant mind was besieged by chaotic, "racing" thoughts which left him utterly exhausted. He told her it was like being on a treadmill at the gym and unable to get off. "Disconnected, fragmented thoughts rushed into his mind unbidden," she says, remembering how it exhausted them both.
"They came with such intensity, such speed, that he felt as though he had no control. They made no sense. They stole his mental peace. He felt he was being attacked and assailed by them. He kept saying, 'What if I go mad?', though he never sounded mad and he wasn't hearing voices. The lack of control really frightened him, especially as he was normally such a great orator, someone who took care over every word."
Less than a week before his death on March 20, David Brunton, 39, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a commonly misdiagnosed illness characterised by recurring bouts of depression and chaotic thoughts. He was admitted to the Priory Clinic in Roehampton and, though he was mistrustful of the diagnosis, agreed to a new mood-stabilising treatment, having had conventional anti-depressants until then."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/m
A very sad example of the disease that's affecting most people today:
"Jenny, 34, describes how her husband's brilliant mind was besieged by chaotic, "racing" thoughts which left him utterly exhausted. He told her it was like being on a treadmill at the gym and unable to get off. "Disconnected, fragmented thoughts rushed into his mind unbidden," she says, remembering how it exhausted them both.
"They came with such intensity, such speed, that he felt as though he had no control. They made no sense. They stole his mental peace. He felt he was being attacked and assailed by them. He kept saying, 'What if I go mad?', though he never sounded mad and he wasn't hearing voices. The lack of control really frightened him, especially as he was normally such a great orator, someone who took care over every word."
Less than a week before his death on March 20, David Brunton, 39, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a commonly misdiagnosed illness characterised by recurring bouts of depression and chaotic thoughts. He was admitted to the Priory Clinic in Roehampton and, though he was mistrustful of the diagnosis, agreed to a new mood-stabilising treatment, having had conventional anti-depressants until then."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/m
