Our society lacks cultural acceptance of excitable people. The Pill Police and the general public attempt to stifle all creative expression that doesn't meet with their momentary approval, as if they own the community sidewalks. What kind of free expression does the average person really tolerate. Very little.
There are many reasons why some of us incite nasty responses from others sometimes requiring police intervention and stay aaway orders nationwide. However it's the pot calling the kettle black that we are not more accepting of one another on equal ground.
We spend 67 times more and healthcare per capita than China and billions are spent on research and pills to prevent people from being who they really are. If they didn't break a law, only rattled someone's cage, or "space" why should we rush to call that person bipolar? Where would we be in life without the likes of Rambo, Cagney, Allen and Pacino? Do they represent bipolar diagnoses requiring stifling medications? No we love it!
So why can't we co-exist in the workplace, in public and in sports and recreation without trying to immediately label and sometimes bully someone as bipolar?
Our fine soldiers are literally brain washed in Boot Camp to be bipolar in lockstep to the Chain of Command. They came home since Viet Nam with PTSD (some similar symptoms to bipolar). We admit as a nation thata we mistreated Viet Nam veterans and many are still struggling. Some resist medication because they choose to express themselves without the side effects of Pill Police prescriptions.
It's sad that people in our country are too pre-occupied with themselves to consider the fact they could become friends with a person that has "some" social" dysfunction. It's a slap in the face at the small minority who served their country or those who may have been disabled for other reasons to be in such a predicament AND be discriminated against.
The creative process of the human mind is disrupted by some psychotropic drugs. Often the drugs are not really necessary. It is society's refusal to accomodate one another that has earned our nation the title "Prozac Nation." But make no mistake about it some medications are like a partial lobotomy.
Do unto others, live and let live come to mind however we are a fear based society, especially now with random terroristic attacks and forget to be grateful for what we have and friendly to our neighbors and the public.
It's only getting worse with a record working class welfare state and those on welfare with no incentive to work because they get subsidized housing, free medical and car insurance. The middle class has a right to be upset, some losing their jobs and houses and joining the ranks of the poor.
Our youth are not motivated and 30% drop out of high school. We have 1 million in gangs and 2 million in prisons and jails and unconscionable child abuse.
We need to regain our dignity for a better America that can be more respected around the world. Our ACTIONS and money ($10 trillion spent by Americans yearly on personal items) do matter. Let's start now!
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