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  A comment on Conversation: If one is bipolar but can control both sides (mania/depression) to perfection, is that one truly bipolar?

  Jun 3 2011: Let answer your question by another question: if someone with asthma is well control does he still have asthma? Yes the pathology of the lungs is still present. Why would it be different for a brain that is deficient in certain neuroreceptors? My bipolar is control but at anytime life can send a curve ball my way and break that very fragile balance. For example, just the fact there to much light in my bedroom can affect my sleep and then affect my thought process. It's a disease like any disease and if present I believe will be there. Just like some people have very bad asthma other lighter one. Bipolar is the same. Some people have climb Everest without oxygen with asthma or made it to the olympic. Like any disease, how well the individual perform with it depend of the person, their surrounding support, ect. Even control, it's always waiting around the corner to come back in strenght.

• A comment on Conversation: Do You Feel Any Relief, Joy, Satisfaction or Greater Safety at the News of Bin Ladens Death? Does it Bring Any Closure On 9/11 for you ?

  May 2 2011: I share your views Lindsay, all we did is kill the "CEO" of the company.... so what?? Most operation are sleeping cell independant one from the other. Saying is the "master mind" I doubt that very much. The extremist have very capable people ( money and education) on their payroll. The issue is the ideology they spread, that's what should be the number one enemy. I was reading an article in magazine saying there was a program in London where converted extremist would help other possible extremist to go back in the right Islam way. Well the funding was difficult because some people had trouble ethically with the concept. That is just sad cause the only way the " war on terror" will win is a fight on ideology.
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  A comment on Conversation: Osama Bin Laden changed air travel. Now, that he is dead the question still remains: Are we safer without Osama? Do we feel safer?

  May 2 2011: The only thing that change with his death is... his dead. Will it stop all the believer in his cause, never. The issue is we approach terrorism like traditional war. Two enemies one battlefield and who defeats the other wins. You can't find an ideology with weapon. You can only fight it with ideology. There this great The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World [Deckle Edge], that explain that concept. Like everything we do, perception is the most important. The west feel they achieve this great success. But did we? We made iconic a man that thrive on been iconic. Remember Che?? sounded like a good idea to kill him right? He became the face of rebellion and revolution. They made it more powerful that he was alive.

• A comment on Conversation: 4 day work weeks.

  May 1 2011: I read one time a very good argument for such. As more people do it you increase the number of worker. By decreasing the number of welfare you decrease the tax needed to pay. It was more complex but at the end. we would end up with almost the same amount or even more money. It is time for now to change how we do business( literally). Our industries are less about production but ideas. We are becoming more artistic and you can't make an " artist" come with is best ideas from 9-5 between 4 little wall. With all the technology we have now how come we are still working as much? Wasn't the robot be working for us now?8) We have to have to start make family and individual our priority. Especially with a low rate of birth. But what I foresee is people taking those 3 days to take another job.8)

• A comment on Conversation: Why is there so few information about phyciatric related disorders. And especially the medicines we use?

  May 1 2011: I believe is due to the stigma of those disease. Could you imagine a publicity like:" please give generously to the schizophrenic"? I believe those disease exist for a very long time but got confuse by very religious time in the past for demonic possession and all. With some fear and misunderstanding of the population, a lack of fund no many equal not much research. We still can't explain the exact physiology of some of them. How could we explain the role of the medication?

• A comment on Conversation: What suggestions do you have or tools do you utilize to reclaim your well-being and create a healthier, happier world?

  Apr 29 2011: The things that have keep me balance is the concepts of Stephen Covey. Especially, "put first thing first". Every times I when apart from those guidelines I paid for it,.8)

• A comment on Conversation: We need another renaissance soon

  Apr 29 2011: I agree. Even if we have doing giant step in technology our economic and social systems have remain stagnant. For example, in medicine the ethic is way behind compare to what we can do. The " I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone." Oath is some times not so harmless. I believe we are at the end of the productivity era. Time for the ideology production era.
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  A comment on Conversation: Morality is defined by men. Does this mean the concept is flawed and limited to a context and needs to be constantly improved?

  Apr 29 2011: Very interesting question. I believe we are in a time in our history where things have to be more individuals in term of moral, definition of success and our self. Because we are creature of free will and easy access to the world at a touch of a button, we can choose and impact without even knowing. Just this discussion is great example, Just 2 decades only a few fortunate would had the chance to learn from some many culture. But I believe it will make stronger communities and society. A few years back a read an essay on the raise and fall of empires. Her conclusion was that all the great empires in history raise up when they were tolerant and had an influx of people from all around. But decline when they close their border.
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  A comment on Conversation: A forth way for continuing human evolution

  Apr 27 2011: Interesting concept, but is mental illness that bad of a thing? Here a few artist with bipolar: Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, Sylvia Plath, Tennessee Williams, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Ezra Pound, Charles Mingus, Gustav Mahler, Paul Gauguin, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollack,Vincent van Gogh, Ozzy Osbourne, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Axl Rose, Sinéad O'Conner, Jack Irons, Linda Hamilton, Peter Gabriel and Kurt Cobain to name a few. Imagine a world without their creativity? I believe great struggle lead to great accomplishment. Mother Theresa sacrifice her life to others and became an Icon. Her struggle made her be love by others. Why the struggle of everyone of those artist would be any different? They achieve greatness by imagining the world differently. Does it mean everyone should become bipolar? No. But maybe as a society we should decrease the stigma attach to mental illness.

• A comment on Conversation: Wealth and power have been our conventional measures of success. What definition will better sustain us now and how can we move into it?

  Apr 27 2011: I believe it will change when people will define themselves and not let society decide for them. Only late in our history we truly find encouragement of self-recognition. We have created a society of survival ( hunter gathering) then of production, I believe it is time for a society of ideas an individuals that synergize. Then how define success? It depends of each person. Did the monk in the high plateau of Tibet have obtain a success yes. But such everyone do the same? Doubtful, who make Our food? Our clothes? This website? Does the rich man obtain success? Maybe if it was his goal. We need everyone little success define by their limit, their dream and their own belief.
  There a line in Cyrano of Bergerac that I love ""Cyrano: I know, you will leave me with nothing - neither the laurel nor the rose. Take it all then! There is one possession I take with me from this place. Tonight when I stand before God - and bow low to him, so that my forehead brushes his footstool, the firmament - I will stand again and proudly show Him that one pure possession - which I have never ceased to cherish or to share with all-
  -and that is-
  Roxane: And that is...?
  Cyrano: My enormous - panache." Act 5, pg. 157