Defining Mental Illness

NOTE: THIS SITE WAS CREATED TO PROMOTE(1) EDUCATIONAL AWARENESS OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND ITS DESCRIPTIONS,ORGINS, AND TREATMENTS,(2) MENTAL HEALTH FACILITYS,RESOURCES, AND INFORMATION,(3) EMPOWERMENT, ENCOURAGEMENT, AND INSIGHT TO OVERCOME,MANAGE AND MAINTAIN, WELLNESS AND RECOVERY DEPENDING UPON THE SEVERITY OF THE ILLNESS. (ALWAYS INTERACT AND COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR PHYSICIAN ABOUT EVERYTHING.YOU MUST BE APART OF YOUR OWN MENTAL HEALTH CARE/ MAINTENANCE/RECOVERY.DO NOT BE TIMID.ALWAYS CONSULT AND ASK QUESTIONS.)

You Will Find Much Of The Information You See Repetitive.This Is Intentional For Two Reasons. (a) The Same Information Placed In Different Context Provides A Broader Perspective Of Understanding When Applied To Different Scenerios, Conditions Or Situations. (b)When Reading The Same Information,The Brain Retains A Longer Lasting Impression,And Is More Likely Remembered. Almost Subliminal, But Not Quite,So Dont Worry!

IMPORTANT!:DO NOT GIVE UP! This Site,Mental Illness And Recovery Is Exactly Like "Life" And The Things That Keep You Lost And Confused. Its BIG, Its SCARY,Its COMPLICATED,It Can Be Seemingly DISCOURAGING IN APPEARANCE! But I Promise You,If You Try And Are Persistant, Like All Things Learned And Habitual,You "Will" Be Doing It All Naturally And Automatically Just Like Breathing. Just Like Mental Illness,There Is Mental Wellness. Just Like How We See The World,Cruel Or Beautiful, Its All The Same World.And Unless You Find Living In Deppression And Misery "Joyful",What Have You Got To Lose?

And Finally,

How I Know What I Know

Where It Comes From

And Why You Can Utilize It

"ALOT OF THINGS HAPPENED TO ME.THINGS THAT HAPPEN TO ME,INTREST ME MOST.THE THINGS THAT INTEREST ME MOST, I LEARN THE BEST.HAD I LED AN AVERAGE,REGULAR LIFE,I MOST LIKELY WOULD BE AN AVERAGE,REGULAR IDIOT,INSTEAD OF AN EDUCATED,AWARE ONE"

And NO I "Do Not" have A PHD for the Clinical Information on this Site.All I Have Is A "Lifetime" Of Experience, Research and Living With,In,Around and Among Mental Illness/ Disorders and Within The Mental Health Community. However,the Clinical Information comes from a Variety of Valid, Documented Medical and University Web Sites,as well as other Individuals with Simular Personal Interest, Experience, and thier own Investigative Research, to which I give my Deepest Gratitude,and Regret that I could not Acknowledge them all,but hope that the Continued Distribution of this Information, will Serve as Restitution. But If You Have Doubts, I Strongly Encourage You To Go Explore And Learn About Your Illness And Gather Information For Yourself,Then Still,I Have Accomplished What I Set Out To Do.Best Of Hope,Strength And Support-James Clay Burton

YOUR GOAL!!

NO MATTER HOW LONG IT TAKES!

NO MATTER HOW MUCH WORK!

NO MATTER HOW IMPOSSIBLE IT SEEMS!

Is to Create Your Own Enviroment,Independance,and Freedom that puts you in a Safe,Stable,Calm,and Pleasant sense of CONTROL,in order to Maintain and Manage Good Mental Well-Being!

MY GOAL!

Is To Reach The Intimidated,Those Who "Dont Want To Know" What To Do And What Can Be Done,Yet Cry Out For Relief From Their Suffering.The Uneducated,The Lost,The Confused And Afraid. I Attempt To Present A Laymans Version Of Relating,Believing, Trusting,and Unfortunatly A Lot Of Reading (how does one get around that?) Hard Road Wisdom/Street Psychology,From A Kindred Member Of All You See Here, Who Has Researched And Lived In,Umong,and Around, This All His Life,Plus Documented Clinical Data. Welcome To "Defining Mental Illness" We Will See How I Have Done And If My Intentions Will Meet My Work.Problem Is Can How Do You Get Them To Read All This Mess,I May Have Created Only A Pipe Dream After All.All I Ask If You Have Read This Far Is Give It A Chance,If Not,Its Ok I Do Field Work Too.Oh Well On With The Show!

Here is Great News and Hope! If you are not Severly Brain Damaged,If your not Locked Away in a State Hospital with Unreachable Chronic Mental Desease,If your Reading this and Understanding the Words,

Then You Can Beat This Thing!

If You Dont Learn The Secrets..If You Are Not Compliant And Participating..If Your Not Willing To Do The Work..Apply Effort..And Try...Then There Is Nothing Else.....PERIOD! And Dont Ride On God's Gravy Train..Because He Only Helps Those Who Help Themselves..The Only Miracle There Is...Is You Beating This Thing And Controling Your Illness and Having a Life!-The End.

Many Or Most Of The Answers We Seek,Lie In The Most Unsavory Places And/Or Require The Most Unappealing Task-Somtimes You Just Got To Do What You Got To Do! Understanding Does Not Require High Intelligence Only Education,Only The Effort,Desire And Willingness To Learn And Know,You Must Decide What And WhereYour Prioritys And Deepest Needs Lie.The Answers And Solutions Are All About You And Always Have Been.Fear,Confusion,Intimidation And Inconvienance Are Wonderful Distractions From Your Freedom And Well-Being,If You Cant Seem To Research, Study,Or Read About The Very Things That Cause Your Suffering,Then Perhaps Your Suffering Isnt As Desperate As You Think It Is...To Learn About A Thing Is To "MASTER IT, IDENTIFY IT,REDUCE IT,Or ELEVATE IT"....It Is Management...Knowledge Is Understanding And Power! "Take The Mystery Out Of Your Madness...Kick An Enigmas Ass Today!-Read,Learn,Ask Questions And Be In CONTROL!"-JCB

Check All That Apply....

I Sometime's Feel Isolated,I don't belong anywhere,people think I am strange,I dont Socialize much.

I have so many Idea's! I just want to do everything! My mind race's,I can't focus,why can't I do it all?

Part of me does'nt want to give up my Manic Creative Ability's,but part of me would like to just be Still and Not Think at all.

I hate being this way! I hate people! I hate everything! I just don't want to be here anymore! I just want to sleep!

I feel like I can do anything sometime's! I Feel Special! I like feeling different! I don't want to be like the other's!

I Know things that others do not know.Its all a Conspiracy.God has shown me the Unraveling of all Things.People are so Stupid and Nieve!

Everything is Dismel and Dark,I have no Energy,I can't do anything,everybody hate's me,I'm ugly,I'm fat,I'm lonely,I don't belong here,I don't want to be here,I hate being me!

I was a normal happy,carefree kid.What happened? Why can't I go back? Why am I like this? I know deep inside I am good person.

Often times I feel submissive to my own thoughts,like I am not even apart of any decisions or input...seperated..distant.

When I create Destructive Behavior,I am Aware of what I do,"But Not Why I Do It" and cannot seem to Control it.I feel as if its all I know.I feel its the only way anyone will notice me.I feel trapped.I feel Angry. I feel Alone.

Just A Few Selections From An Infinite List of Being Emotional and Human and In Need.

(2) Pages:Did You Know That Every Single Thing You Do Effects Your Mental Health? Have You Ever Heard The Term "Well Being?"

CHEMICALS like(seratonin,dopamine)NEURO-TRANSMITTERS,Effect and are Effected and Produced by "The Food You Eat,Your Enviroment,Sleep,Exercise,Play,Emotions, Water,Negative/Positive Thinking,Alcohol, Drugs,Stress,Stress,Stress! Ok so then nobody expects you to be "Mr. Happy Sunshine!" But this page is about "Realistic" ways you can instill good,easy methods for "Well Being" and Reduce a Large Percentage of those Dark Bad Feelings,just by a few simple changes!

It's No Secret...Some folks are sensitive...and some folks are more sensitive than others...and some folks are "extremely" sensitive. Its hard not to be effected when your sensitive,maybe its getting too little love,or careing too much,and its too bad all that compassion, beauty,love and art,is so devestating and brutal on the mind and heart,but then again without suffering where would these things come from? You ever notice how most all the artist,writers,composers, scientist and just plain sensitive people have the most mental problems? If only we can block the hurt and just retain the wisdom! Well its not quite as impossible as you might think.

Good Question! And the answer is Yes!...And No!.Yes! Therapy is a Wonderful Thing that can Conquer Phobias,Anger and Free you of the Past...and No! It wont do a thing if you Fight,Reject,Be Negitive and Critical.The Whole deal about Recovery and Management through Therapy,is "WORK" and lots of it! 24/7 365! Like Everything,it depends on how Badly you want something! On this page we look at the many Varietys and Technics of Theraputics.From Medicine,To Cognitive! Or you can stay where you are at,your choice. Funny how we Embrace and Cling to the very things that are hurting us. I guess it seems like the only thing we can count on thats reliable,But it really isnt that way,It wasn't that way when you were born and its not that way now! Don't let the Mental Disorder Thief,Steal anymore of your Days!

PHILOSOPHIES AND SKILLS:YOU CAN LIVE "WELL" WITH!(2)Pages

Is your Mother's Bottle of Sleeping Pill's-Half Full-OR-Half Empty? Hmmmm? An Age Old Pondering of Perspective! How you view things feeds your Emotional Condition. Wether you see the World as a Dung Heep or a Beautiful Place,it is all the same exact World! However when you really are in a Dung Heep,you really have to Muster Up some Heavy Optimism.I suggest Denial(Did he just say Denial?). Yes,Denial in Definition and Context Please.(To Deny,Reject,Refuse,Not Acknowledge,Not Credit)Denial is like Fire,it Warms you Up,Or Burns your Butt.When You Cant Seem To Get Through It,Or Negativitys are getting you Down...This page is about finding Solutions to many problems, through "Selective Viewing" or "Positive Perspectives" That Include Mental Trickery For Postive Results Instead the other way around.Even Revenge! Revenge as in Accomplishing Goals,and doing what was said couldnt be done that is.Its about Using the same Harmful Thoughts and turning them into your Favor by Positive Cognitive Suggestion. (Alittle Mental Alchemy?) No you can't turn your Drunken Abussive Father into a Gold,but you can Elliminate or Reduce Negativity,Drama,and General People Crap by a Large Percent,by Identifying the things that cause you Emotional Damage for what they really are.You might find out 80% of the "Monster Demons" that Control your Life are nothing more than "Piss Ants" we allow to rule us,and dont even really have to be envolved in or with.

Who's Responsible for the Actions of a Mental Disorder? The Devestating Effects it has on You and the People around you? Well they say its "Controversial" But Im going to tell it like it is "Cut and Dry".We are talking Chemicals and Neuro-Transmitters. Chemicals>trigger>Emotions>trigger> Behavior<>Behavior>trigger>Chemicals>

trigger>Emotions<>Emotions>trigger>

Behavior>trigger Chemicals<>Get It!? We will look at the facts about having an Uncontrollable Chemical Imbalance or

Disequilibrium Distruption in Transmitter Performance,this certainly doesnt mean your a Bad Person,just doing Bad Things Unintentionally and Inadvertantly,But then again,maybe you are to doing some or many things Consciously some extent,but even so this may be a Behavioral Problem Area? Its all connected. How to know the differences on this page! From Serial Killers to Self Abusers to Manic Depression! Its gets Intense,but discovering yourself is Intense and is Deeply Fascinating,and most Intense of all,is it is Profoundly Liberating!

So things have gotten Waaaay Out Of Control!You Finally Realize you got a Problem.Well there are (2) Basic Ways to get Assistance and Help (a) You get>Locked Up,AND>Locked Down in your local Institution (b) You can read this page and get lots of resources and Helpful Guidance. Also we will look at the Ups and Downs of being (within) the Mental Health Community System! that includes (Goverment Asst., Paper Work,Appointments,Medicine,Doctors, Social Workers,Health, and a bunch of other stuff.) But it beats Pain,Misery,and Suffering! Or maybe you havent had enough? Welcome To Mental Illness and Mental Health! If You Can Survive What You Have Already,You Can Get Thru This,Soon Whats Seems Like A Nightmare Of Confusion,Ends Up Routine and Old Hat.

(2) Pages.When you stop and think about about it,most everyone on the Planet is in some way Mentally Unbalanced.(Hallelujah-Tell It Brother!)The differences are the "Severitys of Actions" e.g (Violence,Self-Infliction,Emotional,Questionable, Dangerous,Deviate,Behaviors etc.) You might ask yourself "Is What They or I Doing Harmful To Them/Me? Thats about the Sum of Wether you need Asst/Help Therapy/ Medication ect.The rest of everyone else is considered a "Functional Nut",and can manage to hold a Job and Select Responsibilitys. However there is always "Functionable Pychosis'Too!.People who live almost Unoticed Daily,with Inner and Outer Afflictions we call "Anti-Social",or against Society,Rules,Morals and Responsible Behavior. On this Page we will Explore some reasons "Why We Do The Things We Do" But mostly its because we are "Human Beings" and capable of about almost anything! Or (Because We Can) But What Are Some Of The More "Neurological, Psychlogical,Enviromental Reasons?" DONT MISS PAGE(2) 18+ VIEWER DISCRETION, EXPLICIT CONTENT,PARENTAL ADVISORY,VIOLENT GRAPHIC SUBJECT MATTER.

I chose to give "Disorders" it's own page and not include it in the "Clincal Information" Page,in an attempt to focus on Symptoms and Diagnosis,as this is a Complex Jungle,Pyschaitry is still a "Babe In The Woods" You must understand that the mind is as vast as The "Universe" itself,perhaps each mind is its own Universe,but thats for a "Philosophy Site" The Treament Of Psychosis has been a "Horrible Cruel Morbid Science" only until the 20th Century,and still not quite as Humane today until after the mid 1940's,when they were giving Nobel Peace Prizes for Sticking an Ice Pick in the Frontal Temple Lobe "AKA-Lobotomy" (via above the eyeball)This therapeutic technique would fall by the wayside with the introduction of antipsychotic drugs in the 1950s. Today instead of Trying to Treat and Diagnose an Mental Illness as only a Singular Dysfunction,The Mental Health Community,looks at "Dual and Multiple Diagnosis" and a variety of Treatments and Therapies. More on this page! THINK NUERO-TRANSMITTERS!

Alcohol,Drugs,Food,Sex,Gambling: We all know why we do them,because it feels good and its enjoyable.They makes us feel better in times of Celebration and Leisure.But what about when we do them to makes us feel better because we Feel Bad? And what if we feel bad all the time? So we do them all the time.And do more each time,or add other things,because thats what it takes to get through it all.Say Hello to ADDICTION! Also we are talking about Compulsive Obssessive Behavior.Its not always "EXCESS" that is the Addiction. Its not hard to get caught up in Addictions,we are Creatures of Habit after all.They kind of take on a Life of thier own after a while.So why then,is it so easy to have Harmful Addictions and so Hard to Develop Healthy Ones? Check Out this Page for some Rather Interesting Info.

One "Vital Tool" in beating the "Chemical, Behavioral,Emotional Disability Game",is "A Sense Of Humor!" And That's No Joke! If you can get your Sense Of Humor back,or Maintain it,or get one if you never have had one,then I assure you half the Battle is Won! It is the Ability to Laugh at the World and Ourselves that keeps us sane! On this page you find some very things that arent really so funny,but then again are! Or can be.Does that make sense? Who cares!? Everybody will find things here they may have thought were only happening to them,but in fact are common, and sometimes down right Hilarious! and sometimes not.....Did you ever wonder whats its like in a Mental Ward? Im gonna tell ya alllllll about it!

Just A Bunch Of Ramblin Rhetoric About This Everyday Life...Like

~DEEP THOUGHTS & REFLECTION~

*"Why Would A Feminine Hygiene Product Need Wings? Should They Be Able To Fly? Is That Safe? And Why Wings And Not Wheels?"

~CONTEMPLATION & WONDERMENT~

*"If You Relocate A Pig From Canada,To America,And That Pig Has Offspring,Is The Offspring Pig Going To Produce Canadian Bacon Or Ham? I Just Want Know?"

~Quizzical Quotes~

"At Last,Through My Lifelong Hardships... Achieving A Plethora Of Wisdoms,I Could Finally "See The Forest For The Trees",I Anxiuosly Approached The Wooded Oracle With Great Expectaions,And Upon Entering Was Aggressively Assaulted By A Squirrel."

These And Many Other Indept Philosophical Mind Expanding Contemplating Issues You Simply Shouldnt Miss.

"James Clay Burton" Has been "Bipolar" (manic deppressive) all of his life.Raised in an Abussive Home,A Third Generation of Alcohalism.Unknowingly Gay as a Teenager,he expierenced ,sexual identity confusion with no possible out reach to turn to.Eventually exposed by his Father,He was driven from home and dove straight into Street Life,Leading a Survival Existance of Prostitution,Violence, Assault,Drug Abuse, Homelessness, Danger, and Emotional Devestation,Resulting in (PTSD) "Post Traumatic SyndromeDisorder". He spent many years in and out of State Mental Institutions,where he was first Diagnosed with Manic Depression and Introduced to Medication and Other Therapies,In 1994, he aquired (HIV/AIDS Complex,Hepititis "C",and Diabetes),He Spent the following years excepting his Self and Life,and was determined to add purpose and reason.He Embraced "Cognitive Therapy" and "Positive Projection" to overcome his past,and Live for the Future.

"This Site Is Exactly The Way Its Itended To Be...I Would'nt Change It To Make It More Appealing Or Marketable..It's Here For Those Who Want And Need It,And Can Relate To It...There Is No Shortage Of Teddy Bear/Butterfly/Angel Sites Or White Coat PHD Sites Out There...For me passing on anything that would relieve anyones mental torment and suffering is far more attractive than Profit,Success,or Acknowledgement.I have a Personal Vengeance and Score to Settle with Mental Illness.It will be my Life Mission and Passionate Desire,to see it Overcome anywhere in any form. So we must have many Resources.The Goal Is To Have Something For Everyone." -JCB


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