Mental illness runs rampant just like disease in various communities. We have all seen the homeless person on the street or on the subway begging for change and smelling like God only knows. Many of us say or think that it's only drugs that have effected this person. Don't get me wrong some are on drugs or just sad alcoholics looking for free ride. But many of them can't help it because they are in fact ill. I'm sure many of you have seen Mia Campbell's infamous vid's on popular sites such as YouTube and WorldStarhiphop.com. I've noticed that many men on these videos mock her and igg her on, and make her say dumb shit out of her mouth. While many of the women that pass her in the videos, fill sorry for her and tell them to leave her alone.
She is a prime example of what Bi-polar disorder is and what happens when you don't take your meds. I myself and my friends Farrah, Monica, Vernon, Tanya and Twee have experienced this same kind of reaction with an old associate of ours. Whom we just figured was just to high off of something, not realizing that in fact he too was seriously ill, and was not taking his meds. However people don't understand what these meds do to these people physically and mentally. Honestly many of them have good reasons to why they don't take their meds, because it sends them into a very zombie like state. Where when they are on them they are not themselves, sadly when they aren't on them they are far worse.
They only thing that we can do is understand and have faith that one day they will get better, and that God or whatever you believe in helps them stay on a positive path. I don't feel sorry for Mia Campbell I feel sorry for those men that use and exploit her. May God have mercy on your soul, because we are all human and the mind has a fine line between insanity and sanity. You can be hit by a car, or grazed by a bullet, or hit in the head and find yourself on the street acting a fool because you can't control yourself. These are our brothers and sister regardless if you want to believe it or not. And as humans we are dominos as long as we are living, and knocking one down knocks us all down.
When you get the chance please read this book 72 HOUR HOLD. It is scary to know that as a writer BeBe Moore Campbell didn't write a fictional book, it is fact, about what happens when you don't take your meds for Bi-polor disorder. It's even scary that she predicted this future for her daughter Mai Campbell.
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