Global Warming Skeptics Make Me "Mad"

Skeptics do make me mad because they will not see scientific fact and reasons but rely on opinions taken from I don't know where to make up their minds.

Really the title is just a lame way to segue into the topic of me possibly being "manic", which really has nothing to do with the environment or global warming. I do take medications (two kinds) for depression and now that the level has been adjusted, I think that part is just right.

However, because of some recent "episodes" at work, I have to see someone about what is behind the behaviour. A co-worker asked me if I had ever considered the fact that I might be manic. Well, no, I hadn't thought anything about that. I knew nothing about it either.

Later I asked the co-worker if they knew someone who was manic, and then said yes, a relative was. So it was hard to discount the advice. I ended up looking it up on the internet. It doesn't look good. A lot of the symptoms seem to apply. I think the question is just which of the categories I belong in.

In one way, it is useful to have some kind of explanation should it turn out to be the diagnosis, as my behaviour in work on at least two, three occasions has been anything but rational. Apparently my boss apologized for me once and told me she and the rest of staff were embarassed for me. Later, I had to apologize to four different groups of people, including three different levels of manager. Then I was embarassed, really embarassed.

I think it is something I need a mood stabilizer drug for. Hard to talk yourself out of what I do when the mood goes from normal to outraged at the snap of your fingers. It also is an answer to one question I had no answer to, which is I knew my mother's behaviour ( inappropriate comments which embarrass herself or others) must have some name to it. Didn't seem to fit in depression. It also seems manic part of manic depressive is also very often inherited. And it is very likely she also inherited it from her mother.

In some way, since I am already comfortable about telling people I am depressed and take medication for it, that it won't be any harder to add the manic part. People should be able to talk about mental illness problems with friends and family as easily as they do about other medical problems or illnesses. But it is not like that. And when you are "just" depressed, people who have never gone through it themselves or have had relatives go through it, think you are just sad about something and it will go away. Sometimes it is a reason. Sometimes there is no reason. Besides "manic" or "bi-polar" sounds like a REAL mental illness, not just that sadness thing people think you have and should pull yourself out of.

I have one button that says, I'm not crazy, I'm chemically imbalanced. People never think there is any physical component to mental illness. I never knew there was any physical component. There is.

There are chemicals called neurotransmitters which assist in transmitting messages from between nerve ends in the cells. When certain neurotransmitters which regulate mood are not available in sufficient quantities, the result can be depression. People who have a genetic disposition to depression may be more prone to the imbalance of neurotransmitter activity that is part of depression.

This explanation about the neurotransmitters is excerpted from:

http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/mental_health/depression.html

But you can find similar explanations anywhere.

I could blame genetics. But it would be more fun to blame the global warming skeptics. It makes just about the same amount of sense as their opinions do.