What exactly is "Severe manic depression?"

[cpeter]

Depression is one of those disorders which most people face in there life as some stage for one reason or the other. If it's children the pressure of studies gets over their head and if it's adults the pressure of work attracts depression. Rather than going on drugs, one should look for the reason behind there problem . Keeping your self busy and changing the schedule also helps sometimes to get over stress and depression.
The best way to get over stress, depression and anxiety is to take a break from your regular schedule, go out, and take good sleep. This helps in clearing the mind and try consulting a specialist who can suggest you as how you can get over your problem. There are various prescription drugs to get over anxiety and depression, but these should only be used in accordance with the instruction of a physician and going on anti depressants should be the last option.

[so selfish]

one of the things that stuck with me was how i think part of Dan's condition is that when things go well he's prone to self-destruct. its similar to how my mom is also as she has been diganosed with schzoiphrenia/bi-polar.

i think how do you help?

like my mom is very similar in many ways and her worse flaw is that she got into bad drugs. i conviced her to stop with crack after taking oxycontin. then i was trying to be more encourgaging by buying her a stop smoking inhaler cigarette thing. then that very same night after i complemented how much better she's been looking physically she relapsed to smoking crack    

i made it obvious i don't approve of crack before as it deteriates her health horribly so she then went into guilt mode and i said don't bother being sorry.

which brings me to think why bother being upset(you're own personal feelings) with a person with these conditions when they do things that are upsetting. i think that dissapointing the people they love is involved in this disease in a weird way. somehow they need positive encouragement, but i think i've learned any sense of negativity is useless for both.

i don't know.  *edit. i think you just do your best to help/be nice is my answer. silly love, too.