Unit 8 CALL ME CRAZY, BUT I HAVE TO BE MYSELF 你可以说我疯了,但我必须做我自己.docVIP

Unit 8 CALL ME CRAZY, BUT I HAVE TO BE MYSELF ?你可以说我疯了,但我必须做我自己 Mary Seymour 　Nearly every day, without thinking, I say things like “So-and-so is driving me crazy” or “Thats nuts!” Sometimes I catch myself and realize that Im not being sensitive toward people with mental illness. Then I remember Im one of the mentally ill. If I cant throw those words around, who can? 几乎每一天,没有思想,我说诸如“某某快把我逼疯了”或“疯了!有时我自己,意识到对精神病患者不敏感。我记得我是一个精神病患者。如果我谁能? 　Being a functional member of society and having a mental disorder is an intricate balancing act. Every morning I send my son to junior high school, put on professional garb and drive off to my job as alumni-magazine editor at a prep school, where Ive worked for six years. Only a few people at work know Im manic-depressive, or bipolar, as its sometimes called. 自己既是一位“运转正常”的社会一员，又是一位患有精神病的人，要平衡这两种身份确实微妙。每天早晨我送我的儿子到初中,穿上职业装束开车工作是预科学校一个校友杂志编辑,我在那里已经工作了六年。只有少数几个知道我躁狂抑郁症,或　Sometimes Im not sure myself what I am. I blend in easily with “normal” people. Youd never know that seven years ago, fueled by the stress of a failing marriage and fanned by the genetic inheritance of a manic-depressive grandfather, I had a psychotic break. 你不会想象得到，7年前由于婚姻破裂造成的焦虑，加上受患狂躁抑郁症的祖父的遗传基因的影响，我突发了精神病。To look at me, youd never guess I once ran naked through my yard or shuffled down the hallways of a psychiatric ward. To hear me, youd never guess God channeled messages to me through my computer. After my breakdown at 36, I was diagnosed as bipolar, a condition marked by moods that swing between elation and despair. 看我,你永远猜不到我曾经围绕我的院子裸奔或一个精神病房走廊里。听我,你永远猜不到通过我的电脑信息我。,我被诊断为双相情感,。 It took a second, less-severe psychotic episode in 1997, followed by a period of deep depression, to convince me I truly was bipolar. Admitting I had a disorder that Id have to manage for life was the hardest thing Ive ever done.第二,1997年精神病,是一段深深的抑郁,确实是。我承认障碍,我最困难的事。Since then, a combination of therapy, visits to a psychiatrist, medication and inner calibration have helped me find an even