Pee on their houses and properties to claim territory.
by TheZodiacIt could be, although I've met some businessmen and, trust me, most of them are stress-free, because they rely on others to do their job. I used to work at this company and the partner was a narcissist.
Honestly, I never saw him working or doing anything...just playing with his cell-phone. The senior-managers, who were under the partners, were exactly the same.
by MrDeltaOkay, I'll guess that bipolar hits independent business people more than any other demographic out there.
Yeah, well, were looking at low numbers. 4% of the population or something getting schizophrenia.
There are plenty of "jobs" where stress is low. You could say unions are stress free and safe, while other unions cast an unhealthy attitude across the workforce. You can say the same with business. Adding in bonuses in a limited resource business environment, that leads to cut throat tactics and sabotage. Or you can watch a near monopoly devastate all the competitors in an industry. Bill Gates when up against the federal government on that one, as they charged him with anti-trust. Whatever that means. If you watch the interrogations, it's crazy the stuff they probe the guy for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.
The interviews basically go like this.
The feds, "What did you mean when you wrote in the email that you wanted to make the next 'killer' app?"
It could be, although I've met some businessmen and, trust me, most of them are stress-free, because they rely on others to do their job. I used to work at this company and the partner was a narcissist.
Honestly, I never saw him working or doing anything...just playing with his cell-phone. The senior-managers, who were under the partners, were exactly the same.
by MrDeltaOkay, I'll guess that bipolar hits independent business people more than any other demographic out there.
Okay, I'll guess that bipolar hits independent business people more than any other demographic out there. The closer to an urban city centre, the greater the chances. Only a guess.
I do know that schizophrenia is an urban disease. I haven't figured out if that's due to poverty, or if it is due to stress of inner city life, or something else.
Schizophrenia linked to urban living
www.cmaj.ca/content/170/4/456.1.full
There's no scientific evidence that city life makes people more depressed than rural life, but schizophrenia rates do differ significantly between the 2 settings, a recent International Conference on Urban Health was told.
In the past 10 years, major birth cohort studies in developed countries have revealed that the incidence of schizophrenia is about 2 times higher among people in cities, reported Dr. Ezra Susser, head of epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
“It's not clear if it is birth in cities, or upbringing in cities, but there is something about city living that increases risk,†he said. Where you are born and brought up is a larger contributing factor to risk than genetic predisposition. Indeed, 34.6% of cases would be prevented if people were not born and brought up in cities, compared to 5.4% of cases that would be prevented if people did not have parents or siblings who suffered from the illness, Susser told participants at the New York conference.
Are there any hypomaniacs in the forums? I bet you live a fast paced non stop lifestyle, and when you burnt out, your brain doesn't know how to shut down, so since it's wired to move in one direction, go go go, then it becomes and issue when you burn out early. Brain nutrition isn't something that people normally think of, right?
Here, this is probably as close as I am going to find quickly.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/03/07/US.highest.bipolar.rates/
U.S. has highest bipolar rate in 11-nation study
(Health.com) -- About 2.4% of people around the world have had a diagnosis of bipolar disorder at some point in their lifetime, according to the first comprehensive international figures on the topic.
The United States has the highest lifetime rate of bipolar disorder at 4.4%, and India the lowest, with 0.1%.
The USA is also, traditionally driven by small business. 70% of them fail in the first few years. The rest, after a couple more, and so on.
Here you go. These are not routine jobs. These are jobs that require an incredible amount of mental energy. Probably not the best example, as you could easily go low and say that creative professionals enjoy more marijuana or something. As if insurance sales people and don't drink more, right? whatever...
Link between creativity and mental illness confirmed in large-scale Swedish study
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121016084934.htm
People in creative professions are treated more often for mental illness than the general population, there being a particularly salient connection between writing and schizophrenia, according to researchers whose large-scale Swedish registry study is the most comprehensive ever in its field.
Think of things this way. Bipolar is burn out. Skitzophrenia is a type of burn out. Drinking is what you do when you are constantly in the need to dull yourself down, so that you can accept that you are betraying your core self in what you do. It's a lack of love for the self. Self Punishment, or escape, right?
You can get bipolar from bad diets or chemicals I am sure, or maybe from drinking too. I don't know.
If you tear a muscle, we don't blame the fish, if you injure your brain, well, we always blame what we put in our mouths. Well, that is not always the case.
Dangerous Knowledge: 4 Brilliant Mathematicians & Their Drift to Insanity
We’re bringing back by popular demand Dangerous Knowledge, the BBC’s 90-minute documentary that takes a close look at four mathematicians – Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing – whose thinking profoundly influenced modern mathematics but also drove them (or so the program argues) to insanity and eventually suicide. Cantor gave us “set theory.†Boltzmann made important contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics. Gödel is remembered for his incompleteness theorems. Turing built on Gödel’s work and laid the foundation for computer science. They all spent their difficult final years in various states of mental decline. You can find Part 2 here.
by SymphonyBut why "Etzel," of all people? Because he understands quite vividly the human condition, and eloquently (if at times viciously) portrays his knowledge. Go read through his PsychForums posts and your utilitarian comprehension will build.
by InSpiritusEtzel carries a unique punch with his words and humor to drive the point home...exquisitely brutal.
Ok, as someone who's had the boredom to engage with Etzel here over the topic of racism, I am amazed how easily fooled you are by the pompous verbosity of the dude and fail to see most of the points he makes are ridiculous and reveal great ignorance and lack of real life experience. The guy is just a geek full of hot air who uses a lot more words than necessary to parrot a bunch of philosophers and throw off those who can't cut through crap to get to his poorly thought out ideas.