Hungover from a makeup show where my makeup artist from korea's only english word was ' Eu oh-K?' when she got glitter in my eye & 'Mm- Hungreh' & an all night rim campaign shoot powered on apple chips, i stumbled out of bed about 1. Time for my daily fix of the big O. I love Oprah. Love love love. Not unlike how i love reading a book for the umpteenth time or drinking champagne in the afternoon. Crack.
It was an episode where she interviewed what people called 'a dream dad' who he stabbed his two twin daughters to death out of the blue & his wife who had forgiven him. At first i was just a repulsed as any viewer. Apparently he had been battling depression. Yada yada. Got it. Evoke sympathy by claiming mental insanity. Do a retrial, jury will take it into unconcious count (Who DOESNT watch Oprah?),early parole. Yay!
However, as it went on she/he refered to this depression as,'the dark spot' or 'this dark place' & how some days he just felt so hopeless he couldn get out of bed. How it started for him, getting 'anxious', being unable to sleep coz of 'inner monologue'. Also how he had driven off sometimes & when his wife called him he said simply, 'I'm looking for a place to die'. Like it was the most common thing to do, like buying newspaper. Just hearing that gave me that eerie feeling. Like they know YOU.
So, im not going to stab anyone to death coz i dont want them to suffer how i suffer but doesnt everyone feel that way every now and then, if not all the time? I'm too proud to be/claim to be depressed but anxious i definitely am. Think not too many people know that part of me but to those who do, they're careful to watch for the signs. The sudden silence, the fidgeting and nail flicking, the inability to breathe or answer question coz my minds running out several versions of the entire conversation in monologue. Like when someone OD's on K. I just jam.
Its a private thing. To me anyway. Im pro-choice so i choose to deal with it. I have only to many memories of breaking down in bathrooms or small corners. I'm just anxious. Someone once told me i might be bipolar. When im good im goooood but otherwise im just withdrawn or frantic or what i call in 'sensory suspension'. My worst was 3 years ago. Actually had monologues with other people talking. No, they did not ask me to kill the president or hide the TV remote. They just talked. To me. About me. It passed.
Oprah was saying, 'Please explain it to me, coz for the rest of us who havnt been there (gestures towards the audience with the most frazzled expression), we just DONT see.' Guess you don't either. That's ok. She got this new psychobabble guy (Bye-bye Dr.Phil & Dr.Robinson the answer to every woe made for man kind) who kept saying,'Get help','Talk about it','Get medication,' like thats the ultimatum before u end up a mental whack job. She even said,'Theres a lesson here for all of us here today, tell the truth.'?!#$@!
I can talk about it because i'm ok with it. It's only considered a 'disorder' if it 'disrupts your lifestyle'. It doesn't have to. Trust me. I'm determined to prove that there's a choice. Even when 'the days just too dark', i'm content to wait for the sun to shine again.
So, till it does, my Oprah obsession is on hold.