Thank God I'm sane

Written by Thesh from the blog Thank God I'm sane on 13 Oct 2008
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Good morning everyone, I hope you had a good weekend.

This is my first blog, and I hope I don't offend anyone,

Have you ever condisderd or thought about your mental status, and how fortunate you are, for you are able to think and reason what you about to do?

Have you ever thought about all those people we regard as mentally unstable and what goes through inside their heads. I'm talking about epileptic people, people who are manic depressive.

I had a cousin who was epileptice, we used to call him names because we did not understand he, how I wish I could turn back the clock and show him appreciation, as he was a good person when he regained conciousness, but we illtreated him, because we didn't know what he was going through, and now that I know better, I wish he was here so I can appreciate him for who he was.

Now I have a friend who is not "mentally stable", she is manic depressive, at this time, she can not think rationally cause she is not taking her medication, she does things she would not do under normal circumstances. The thing is while medicated, some of her thinking/creative abilities are suppressed, hence she decided to not take her medication.

The said thing is, she can only get better if she takes her medication, but at this moment, she can not think that logic as she is not medicated.

My question to you is, how do you react to poeple whom we regard as "mentally unstable", do we try to find more information about their illness or we treat them as outcasts and don't want to be associated with them?

I love my friend so dearly, and would do anything to see her being her loving and caring self she is when she able to take control of herself.

I know its Monday and probably dont' want to deal with anything depressing, but I need your opinion.

Sorry for the long blog.

13 Comments

Thesh
13 Oct 2008 04:37

Hi guys, can I have your responses.

Dimago
13 Oct 2008 04:45

When i was growing up there was a boy called Mahlenhle (i wonder what happened to him) & we used to be scared of him...everytime he came around we'd run away cause again we didnt understant his illness plus naye neje he used to chase us with stones.

Then a neighbor of ours who used to be normal suddenly went 'crazy'. She would just go in the street swearing at people. I dont think her family understood what was going on, they blamed it on boloyi (witchraft)...

I think a lot can be done to educate people about mental illness...

lepogo
13 Oct 2008 04:53

I dont think Im sane.Seriously.

So to all the sane ones,please make sane comments.....

Thesh
13 Oct 2008 04:56

they blamed it on boloyi (witchraft)... @Dimago, thats what happened with my family as well, we spent a lot of money taking my cousin to sangomas, who couldn't even help him, and now after his death, I have some knowledge about the illness, which is sad

Toxic
13 Oct 2008 07:31

Yazi thesh, i wonder about this mental illness as well. How does one go from being sane to being insane like overnight? If i could find a medical explanation that made sense to me, i may understand this kodwa right now i also think ke boloyi!

andi01
13 Oct 2008 07:36

we spent a lot of money taking my cousin to sangomas, who couldn't even help him- the sangomas maybe cudnt help bcoz you had little or no faith in them. Not everything is medical based, i always say the ancestors were hear before teh so called Dr Juma's.

Dimago
13 Oct 2008 07:48

Isn't there a national mental illness day?

Shuga babe
13 Oct 2008 08:08

There's a very Sexy insane person in Durban who goes around spraying the walls and Roads I saw him again this weekend he was visiting his mother after 3 weeks of diappearence, his mother was trying to talk to him but hey he told her to go to hell.

He is 23 years he use to go to ICESA City Campus his mother is so convinced he was bewitched at ICESA because of being Smart. his mother helps at my daughter's friend's house. shame her Madam is so nice to them she allow him to come and spend time with him mother at Madam's house. yooo ave emuhle lowamntwana, but he looked at me and he saud " Ave ungidina kuthi angikuthele ngamathe ebusweni" . I am so scared of him, the way he speaks to his mom is so scaring me. he needs a real help, I wish he could find medication to heal it totally not to control it. I don't believe in Sangomas they very good at telling you your problems but very bad at solving them.

faraimagic
13 Oct 2008 08:17

To Lucas Radebe and Family!
Fezi is in a special place right now!Hold On!
RIP FEZIWE!

faraimagic
13 Oct 2008 08:20

could have send this anywhere else!Skees!

carino
13 Oct 2008 08:24

Its not always boloi... Sometimes its a result of some form of depression.

sexyd
13 Oct 2008 08:38

I was Also in the same "mentally unstable" state, its far too deep than what ya'll are saying!!!
I could feel that i was loosing my mind and bliv me u, its some scary shit right there!!!
I saw about 4 sangomas, i even went to a shrink!!! i was sick for about 4 months, i wud relapse from time to time, i nearly killed myself coz i cud not take it anymore but i biliv that i was healed by a sangoma and my ancestors!!! Its all about ure believes!!!

Shrink told me that i was stressed and neede to relax, sangomas told me i was being bwitched by my so called friend's jealous Galfriend bcos she thought we where dating!!!! Hectic neeee

Thesh
13 Oct 2008 08:39

My family had faith, but sometimes there's more to it than just what we see, in my family, before us there we people who were epileptic, I know of my uncle who passed away as well, sometime epilepsy "lufuzo" don't have english word. and sometimes it depends at what happens at birth, I have another friend who is epileptic because of what happened when she was born, her mother could not give birth to her normally so they used those scissorlike clamps to get her out, and because the skull was still soft, there was sort of damage in her head, which caused her epilepsy.

even manic depression is somehow sort of inheritance. And sometimes, the things we use tend to damage our brains.

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