Sebastian Junger
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That's sometimes your only, your only choice.
Right, you're not making sense on it.
It doesn't make sense.
It saved two people that I know of that I really loved, really close to.
One guy and a woman that I dated who I later found out she stabilized on lithium.
You're emotionally flat.
You put on weight, you know, all kinds of stuff.
All kinds of stuff that's better than suicide.
But, you know, it's not good.
And, you know, bipolar, you know, it destroys relationships.
I mean it's like it really – it's a very, very tough deal.
And often the result of trauma, right?
I mean in both cases of these people that I care about, they were traumatized as children, you know.
And so it often produces that terrible behavior that then just fulfills itself your whole life.
It's absolutely tragic.
There's some neurochemical stuff, yeah.