Christmas Songs For The Mentally Disturbed

MANIC Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Busses and Trucks and Trees and Fire Hydrants and.....

PERSONALITY DISORDER You Better Watch Out, I'm Gonna Cry, I'm Gonna Pout, Maybe I'll tell you Why.

OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock ........ ....(better start again)

PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY On the First Day of Christmas My True Love Gave to Me (and then took it all away).

It marks a great person when he can accept his situation, struggle to overcome it, succeed and get on with his life. Zanardi is racing again.

I agree.

I have a number of comments.

Lucky for Alex Zanardi that he had the resources and the support to be able to get up off the ground and start a new. That's one of the big differences between physical ailments and mental ailments -- the mentally ill person usually finds him/herself alone. Most people can relate to physical disabilities. Not as many can relate to mental disabilities.

Even most insurance policies for disability show a significant difference. My policy treated mental disability the same way they treated substance abuse -- 24 month limitation. (Where as if I had lost a leg, I would have been covered until I was 65)

2nd point: if I was on David Letterman, I would probably joke about my experiences with my mental illness, too. It's called self deprecating humor. And it's funny. But I wouldn't make blanket statements...I would just poke fun at my own situation.

I've done stand up comedy before. I poked fun at my experiences with obesity. It was funny. But there's a fine line between that and making fat jokes. One is funny, the other is just mean.

Many posts on this thread have crossed that line.

You know, mental illness touched my family profoundly.

And I work in the field now.

Sometimes one just has to laugh.

The "Offended" stchick doesn't work really well here.

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