It occurs to me that where I live is very well suited to people who are on half the year and off half the year. I'm not a diagnostic case, but I definitely have my pendulum swing, albeit a gentle gradual one, throughout the year.
As I think about the people I know here, there are many who are frantic half the year and practically comatose the rest.
How bout others' experiences of seasonal places that are 1/0, i/o, onn/off, touristy/abandoned?
Could you categorize places to go along with disorders in the DSM3000 or whatever that book of pyschiatric ailments is called? MV gets bipolar. Maybe NYC gets straight-out borderline psychosis? (no offense intended -- just an exercise in classification).....
― Maria :D, Saturday, 1 September 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago)
I imagine Berlin might be the manic side (with all the creativity and flights of fancy and no need to sleep and messianic thoughts) and a city in Bulgaria being the depressive side.
― Maria :D, Saturday, 1 September 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago)
This thread question is fraught with the potential for insult and offense. I was going to say let's be cool guys but then I realised it might be more fun to read this thread if people FITE, so go whichever way ye may so chooooooose.
― Maria :D, Saturday, 1 September 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago)
So I'm going to call Portland (organ) ADHD.
― Maria :D, Saturday, 1 September 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago)
I insult and offend you. (And have nothing useful to add to this thread)
― The Reverend, Saturday, 1 September 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago)
This reminds me of one time when I had the temerity to slag off Salt Lake City on ILE. My back still bears the scars and I can no longer swim in public without attracting stares.
― Aimless, Saturday, 1 September 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago)
What do you have against Bulgaria? Geez, Maria, way to go beating on Eastern Europe.
― Maria, Saturday, 1 September 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago)
I think tourist destinations attract depressives and people whose marriages are failing. Geographical cure and all that. It doesn't work, so they get mad and stomp their feet and make all the rest of us wage-slaves miserable.
― Beth Parker, Saturday, 1 September 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago)
Salt Lake City is for people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Don't ask me why, but it's true.
― Abbott, Saturday, 1 September 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago)
St. George, Utah, is wholly schizophrenic. I think all those crazy red rocks and plateaus brings it out of a person.
Lazy warmth here, I don't know it's psychology because I am trapped in it.
― Abbott, Saturday, 1 September 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago)
Ok, those of you with diagnosed psych sitches, would you say that your choice of place to live has anything to do with your particular "disorder"?
― Maria :D, Saturday, 1 September 2007 23:55 (seventeen years ago)
No.
― Abbott, Saturday, 1 September 2007 23:59 (seventeen years ago)
Well, I have to say, I'm a bit cheerier in the dry warm envelope that is NM weather. I thought I wouldn't get all pseudo-SADed out and wish I could hibernate. It turns out, though, that I realized it's the holiday season and all its memories/personal connotations that are depressing, moreso than snow and scraping off your unheated car's windows and slipping everywhere when walking on sidewalks (which I'm still not fond of).
― Abbott, Sunday, 2 September 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago)
When I lived in San Francisco the rainy season made me very depressed.
― Beth Parker, Sunday, 2 September 2007 01:44 (seventeen years ago)
Beth, under no circumstances should you move to western Oregon or Washington. It doesn't rain as much as people think, but the cloud cover is 10,000 feet thick for eight or nine months of the year.
― Aimless, Sunday, 2 September 2007 01:54 (seventeen years ago)
a friend of mine lived in iceland for a while & said it was a very bipolar place..
― daria-g, Sunday, 2 September 2007 03:22 (seventeen years ago)