Asshole trainslation7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() It was not done at the time and would have run counter to his military discipline. My mother’s father, they say, suffered from phases of depression that were never clinically treated. ![]() My family is no stranger to psychic frailty. This earthquake was different: it was taking place inside me. Even more frequently, those who have bipolar tendencies will find unipolar depression-pure depression, in other words-in their family tree. But both bipolar disorder and schizophrenia have some genetic causes, and the symptoms often overlap and occur in the same family. The gene for bipolar disorder has not yet been discovered, if it even exists, nor is there any genetically determined pattern, as in Gregor Mendel’s work, that might help you predict who will fall ill and with what degree of likelihood. The reasons were physical the doctor had shifted them into the realm of bones and nerves, basically like a broken leg, and, as a person, I did not yet have to be given up for lost. That was something he could live with it turned the change in personality into something objective and physical. I remember the long-distance phone call my friend Cord made, completely dismayed by my new condition, and how he regained a bit of his composure after the doctor told him it’s all a question of neurons. ![]() But they offer a sort of direction, a way to understand even if only one of them fits, and never completely, it still affords a hypothetical template with which to compare the chaos via four or five structural parallels drawn from other cases, and so to extrapolate explanations. Manic-depressive illness is usually assigned five different causes: genetics, changes in neurons, life circumstances, the already described basic condition of vulnerability, and finally, personality. Out of nowhere a friend becomes a stranger. Suddenly, out of nowhere, someone they know goes crazy, literally crazy, and in a far more precise, more real, and more embarrassing way than is ever shown in books or films, goes crazy like one of those wild-eyed derelicts who yell at the traffic, and turns stupid, foolish, weird. It is an unimaginable, all-encompassing blow that flings you into outrageous orbits for your friends and family it is a total tragedy. The drama that a first psychosis unleashes is considerable. ![]()
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