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Rev. Margaret Echols

Bipolar and Other Mentally Ill People in Positions of Power

  • Isiah 29:20-21 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: That make a man an offender for a word and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

    Laws are being changed to more fully protect the guilty; people are being condemned for not adhering to the multitude's religious practices, and people who have no original thoughts of their own get downright indignant when the masses don't bow to them. There are insanities being tolerated all over the place.

    I tell people: Currently statistics claim that one in every 33 people you encounter is bipolar. I guess because I was raised by one I have a tendency to more fully understand the impact of that statement. This is a huge jump from just a few decades ago when the illness was so rare as to not have a diagnosis.  My doctor told me that the hallmark sign of a bipolar person is that everyone else has a problem but them. He told me this when I was sitting in his office because I was concerned that I would end up like my mother. I have scars and old fractures because I had the audacity to contradict her. I have since met others with this diagnosis. They seem to me to be slightly milder versions of her.

    In my personal experience, I have seen that bipolar people are pathological liars: bipolar people will go out of their way to manipulate the situation to fit their reality, including murder. Bipolar people, when angered, have the strength of 4-6 grown men. People who are in ignorance of the powers of persuasion that bipolar people have tend to go along with them, until they realize, "This is nuts!" Bipolar people use fear and intimidation, and if they are in a position of power, they have people do their dirty work for them. This is why I had to include my dad and youngest brother in the protective order I had to obtain against my mother. In and of themselves, they were harmless, but she could make them do her bidding because they would not reason for themselves, and they didn't dare cross her for fear of the consequences. 

    And that is just part of the reason why prejudice is getting worse instead of better in this supposedly enlightened age...

    Have a blessed day!