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The Weird Zone

 
  

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akira
20:27 / 12.05.07
I dont realy want to go into why I went 'nuts'.

I was realy messed up when I saw him making tea, zoned out, not speaking, didnt have a clue who I was, or where I was, peaple would speak to me and I'd just smile at them. I just remember seeing him. He looked normal, not like the traditional winged type image, and dont recall him interacting with anyone, he was in a room with other peaple making a cup of tea, and wasnt around the next day when my head was in a better place.

I didnt give it much thought at the time, and havent thought about it much since. Maybe it wasnt the same guy, maybe I imagined it. Looked like and was dressed the same as the guy I walked past. If it was real and did have a message I guess it was, chill out and have a cuppa.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
23:21 / 12.05.07
I always assumed that the people who are observed as 'being nuts' would have some type of explanation for their unusual behavior, other than just 'being nuts'.

Not always, dude. I mean at the time, yeah, you could probably come up with a reasonable interpretation of what you were doing and why you were doing it, but sometimes you just come out of it, look back, and say "oh yeah I was pretty nuts right there."

However I agree that terms like being "nuts" are hardly unproblematic and should be used with caution, especially in a language-aware space such as Barbelith strives to be. Even if one self-identifies as mentally ill and has diagnoses and bits of paper and fol-de-rols to back this up, it's a bit difficult to prove that you have mental health needs over the net.

So, yeah, all that.
 
 
akira
11:22 / 13.05.07
Yea maybe I should have said that I had an acute case of paranoid psychosis and was given 2.5mg of an antipsychotic called olanzapine.
 
 
Mako is a hungry fish
13:54 / 13.05.07
One mans psychotropric medication is another mans entheogen, and yet anothers plaything.
 
  

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