James Holmes and Mental illness

It had to b more than bipolar.

It's been putting me on edge as well I've not told anyone I work with about my bp and since this happened all I have been hearing is that he was crazy bp and something should be done with "these people" in our society. Maybe it's being blown out of proportion because I work next to the Theater but still I just wanna be like okay do you wanna lock me up for doing nothing wrong but because I could potentially do something that's messed up!

That's very interesting. I was pretty sure someone would have to be good and psychotic to Do that. I'm glad it's not the case. That way he can't use insanity as a defense.

At least for me, there seems to have been alot of stories like this over the past year. It does bother me a bit. I've only been open about my bipolar with the people closest to me, the people I trust. That's just me though. That's the way I've always been. But again, stories like these are starting to bother me.

I don't see how it would be possible to live my life and hide my illness. It is sometimes obvious that there is something dreadfully wrong with me. I am never violent. I practically never even raise my voice. I'm pretty patient. I don't honk when people are chatting on their cell phone and forget to go by a green light. I figure they'll go soon enough. But I do get psychotic and do mostly benign things. I write insane essays and email them to my therapist, change my manner of dress, call clergy with nonsense questions and requests, walk around generally speaking gibberish to everyone…and a week later I come out of the hospital and my friends come to visit me and hear what happened in the psych ward. I tell them all about it and they don't judge. They stick with me. I hope that had it been one of them instead of me, I would act the same way. But I don't know it for certain.

Nobody will ever understand why u do the thing u do or don't do if u never come out about being bipolar I mean ther will be some people out that will never understand but other will or will try to or they will at kno I have an problem