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Re: Has anyone ever heard.....?

Posted by ronaldo on November 5, 2006, at 8:34:00

In reply to Re: Has anyone ever heard.....? » ronaldo, posted by ed_uk on November 5, 2006, at 7:07:11

> Hi Ronaldo
>
> Why do you think you might have been misdiagnosed? What do you think caused your manic episode?
>
> Ed

Promise me you won't laugh, Ed!

I'm still a bit embarrassed about this one.

I thought I could hear the neighbour's daughter calling me via an auditory hallucination. I got up and broke into the neighbour's house which was built like a fortress. I pulled out an iron bar that was blocking a slit like window, you know one of those windows from which the archers shoot their arrows at the enemy.

Anyway I got in and made my way to the room of the young lady in question, a medical student I'll have you know, and I proposed to her. After that I made my way out of the house without being caught by any of the other people within the house who apparently slept through everything. Nothing came of my proposal. No fights, no legal action, no nothing. Just one iron bar got pulled out. I ended up in the Sanitorium for a fortnight I think.

Does the above count as a manic episode? I don't think so. I think it was caused by too much thinking.

I had a major depressive episode five years earlier while at university which caused me to be hospitalized. I know what caused that. Basically I was very badly let down by my mother to whom I was closely attached due to the fact that my father died when I was just 6 months old. That is as much as I'm going to say.

I had another episode in hospital seven years after the episode with the neighbour's daughter. This was brought on by the flare up of osteitis in my right leg which I had broken in a motor accident. I was working doing a course as a draughtsman. This illness caused me to go off the course and that in turn triggered my manic depression. But I was only hypomanic at best. I think I could have managed without hospitalization.

I had one further manic episode where I climbed on the roof of the neighbouring day centre to chase away some young seagulls who were making a racket. I cut myself on the way down and needed stitches so I went to the nearby surgery at about 6 am and tried to get help. No one answered the door so I kicked it in. Once inside I realized it was too early and no one was there. I then went to the A&E at the local hospital and got help there. That is where the police caught up with me and put me in the cells. My friendly pdoc, God bless him, put me into the local psychiatric hospital where I stayed for 4 days. Luckily I escaped a criminal charge for breaking and entering.

That's about the sum of it, Ed. I don't think I deserve to spend the rest of my life as a manic depressive. I honestly don't. There have been fights with my wife where the police have been called, usually by my wife, but no one ended in hospital. I spent some time in the cells at the police station but that was it.

...ronaldo


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