My mother is bipolar, but she's never spit rap lyrics at an elderly woman. Well, at least not this week.

^ So you understand the ramifications of bipolar disorder, and you still downvote this video?

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*beg

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Full credit to this man for this articulate and heartfelt explanation. We need reminding now and then that things are not always what you believe.

I didn't think I'd have to *beg so much for this thing to get some attention.

Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter Crosswords.

Cough#crack baby#cough

Happy thoughts.

Disorder my ass. Crazy undisciplined bitch! I love how the "sane one" in the family thinks prayer is a good use of people's time and energy. Bipolar sister, delusional brother.

Whether this guy's telling the truth or not, bipolar disorder is serious shit and it's not cool. My older stepbrother has it, and before they found it out and got him on the right meds, he had angry outbreaks where he'd start shouting, screaming, and threatening people.

>> ^budzos:
Disorder my ass. Crazy undisciplined bitch! I love how the "sane one" in the family thinks prayer is a good use of people's time and energy. Bipolar sister, delusional brother.

It's easy for us to pass on this extreme behavior as just poor discipline or accuse the person of being just plain bad but that's because we don't have it and we aren't close to anybody that does. Imagine having a friend or loved one that enjoyed the same privileges you've had that just unexplainably goes off of his or her rocker for no reason. There is psychosis attributed to extreme cases of manic depression.

So budzos, are you really Tom Cruise or what?

For all those who feel the disorder is just an excuse to behave badly, do you also think the same thing about autism?
http://www.videosift.com/video/Michael-Savage-says-Children-with-Autism-are-Faking-It

From the DSM-IV-TR: "Manic speech is typically pressured loud, rapid, and difficult to interrupt. Individuals may talk nonstop, sometimes for hours on end, and without regard for others' wishes to communicate. Speech is sometimes characterized by joking, punning, and amusing irrelevancies. The individual may become theatrical, with dramatic mannerisms and singing. Sounds rather than meaningful conceptual relationships may govern word choice. If the person's mood is more irritable than expansive, speech may be marked by complaints, hostile comments, or angry tirades."

I'm just sick of everyone and their fucking mother having some disorder to excuse their shithead behaviour. This guy's an asshole and his sister is a crazy bitch who'd probably stop acting so "bipolar" if someone just tackled her ass one of these times. She might still be bipolar, but maybe next time her other pole kicks in she'll be reminded "hey last time I did this I got tackled Terry Tate style. Maybe I'll just chill.."

But I do also see how modern society imposes unnatural roles on us human beings that are liable to drive many of us mad. Love, marriage, religion, politics, economics, consumerism, and power systems... our lives are based on one lie after another, and sometimes that's too much for a person's psyche.

I do feel, similar to the guy who is of course wrong about autism, but different in that I think it's actually true, that most people who claim bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, etc.. are really just weak, passive-agressive shitheads who would do just as well with a boot up the ass as a bunch of sympathy, accomodations for their obnoxious symptoms, and a prescription.

Maybe I've just had too many experiences with crazy bitches that have left me with contempt for the mentally ill. Who knows?

Who will be the first to type the obvious joke reply: "what's your excuse for being a shithead?"

"...a crazy bitch who'd probably stop acting so "bipolar" if someone just tackled her ass one of these times. She might still be bipolar, but maybe next time her other pole kicks in she'll be reminded "hey last time I did this I got tackled Terry Tate style. Maybe I'll just chill.."..."

You're making the assumption they think before they act. It has been my experience that people with bi-polar in a manic phase have very little impulse control, its not so much a choice they make as an inability.

You seem to be under the impression the girl's brother is offering excuses and asking for sympathy, maybe he is, but it is my impression, more than anything, he's looking to spread understanding. Why understanding, understanding that she isn't just a thug, she doesn't act like that for the joy of it. Understanding that in order for her to become a functioning productive member of society she needs help in the way of therapy and medication.

And I will tell you this, being beaten or tossed in prison does absolutely nothing to actually help/reform these people, if anything it makes them much much worse. Met with violence they are much more likely to respond in kind, with little regard for their own safety let alone others.

And the whole frustration the families face is they can't get the person the help they need. By law they have no right to force the person into any mental institution, and even if they're willing services are very expensive, especially good services. Most government run "free" facilities won't take people unless they're so bat-shit insane at any moment they're liable to kill themselves or someone else.

So what do you do? Ignore it, throw them all in jail over and over again as they continuously repeat their offenses?

Just don't act like I'm the jerk when I call this guy's sister a crazy bitch based on the subway video. I don't care if she's bipolar or whatever the reason is for her behaviour. She's a crazy bitch and someone should have just tackled her ass.