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[timey_wimey_kid]

I just wanna raise a little discussion about Campbell here here :) Because there's something I don't quite understand

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[midknight_starr]

He's Manic Depressive (aka Bipolar) His manic episodes can get pretty uncontrollable, so his parents put him in the hospital.

I have a teen son who is bipolar and his manic episodes would sometimes get violent, so I've been there.

[timey_wimey_kid]

Oh... :( I never really thought depression could be that serious. I mean, I never really saw it as an illness. I've been in a depressive state for quite long periods in my teenage years, well, not just sad, I mean, really depressive, cuz my parents were getting divorced; I could start crying without no real reason, and this ended with alcohol and smoking and a lot more happening I don't really wanna mention cuz too scary to remember... Friends offered me to see a doctor but I kept myself busy with school work for a distraction, and somehow snapped out of it myself, without any meds etc. and then it just went away and never came back.

Well, like I said, I don't understand a lot. So when you are Manic Depressive, you're born with it and it's just there, no matter if you ever get depressed or not?

[artic_fox]

If you want to understand Manic Depression better, I recommend Stephen Fry's documentary that he did a couple of years back, chroniciling his experiences with it: Stephen Fry: The Secret Life on a Manic Depressive. Although I knew about it, it certainly opened my eyes a lot as well.

[timey_wimey_kid]

Oh, thanx a lot! I'll try to find that one! :)

[timey_wimey_kid]

Yeh, I remember him winking to Eddie the next day and saying something like "nicely played, huh?" so I think that was set up.

Well, I was thinking maybe his depression got better after he actually found his purpose in life, i.e. being a DJ? Could that help?

[catyuy]

He probably did something publicly and/or very dangerous in one of his manic states and his parents sent him to the Asylum rather than deal with him themselves.
I think he controls himself rather well with his meds and uses his mania to his own advantage.
I'd hate to see him in a full on depressed mode, cus I like my Cambell being happy.

[timey_wimey_kid]

Yeh, probably. I dunno if they should've shown this in the series, cuz I just can't imagine him really depressed. I mean, he's so hyperactive and sunny and full of life and ideas, like he's got batteries that never fade.

[catyuy]

HEre are some helpful links to Bipolar as that is what Manic Depressives are mostly called now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_Disorder
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/bipolar-disorder/complete-publication.shtml
http://www.psycom.net/depression.central.bpdepression.html
http://www.psycom.net/depression.central.bipolar.html

[timey_wimey_kid]

Oh thanx very much! I'll read those in the evening :)

Re: This comment presupposes that you've watched it right through.

[timey_wimey_kid]

Oh, LOL, I kinda guessed there's something wrong =)

Ok I see it better now, so it purely depends on the individual and his, dunno, power of will, whether depression progresses or not?

[malicehaughton]

I had a bipolar friend once in RL, and know quite a few people from other fandoms who are bipolar. He never went through a depressive phase when I knew him. He was on meds at the time

[timey_wimey_kid]

what the heck did the nurses say when they got back about him drinking?

well, what could they say? i guess they just closed their eyes on that. same as they often did with Fergus.

[malicehaughton]

Well, he was 19. Which is legal here in Australia, but I don't know about elsewhere.

It just caught me as strange. I don't know why, but it seemed a bit wrong.

[timey_wimey_kid]

Legal in UK since 18, as far as I'm concerned :)