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About ER and ramblings.
This isn't spoilery, unless you haven't read TVGuide.
So, Abby's brother has shown up out of the blue. He rented a plane and he has a new girlfriend. Oh! she's young (she's not that much younger than the brother so I don't get what the big deal is)...but Abby's brother is acting very spontaneous and flighty. And it takes Abby to the end of the episode to wonder if her talking a mile a minute, claiming he's got several weeks leave from the Air Force brother might be manic.
I don't think it's really a jump to say YUP. One, because that would be typical ER storytelling.
And, well...if they aren't going in that direction then they are doing a great job of writing a guy who is acting manic but isn't.
Because, except for the renting the plane and flying all over the place...that was me a few years ago. Except I talked a LOT faster than that. And the phone conversation about the blender? about half way through that I woulda changed my mind and decided blenders are stupid and this is boring and why I don't I bake bread! (there was a bread machine).
Now, when Sally Field was on playing Abby's mom I couldn't relate as much because her mania manifested much differently. Plus I never got reallyreally manic, mostly I was hypomanic or depressed. Mostly depressed. Which is one reason, I believe, I spent so long with the wrong diagnosis.
Anyway, it's interesting to see that. When Wesley was going around dealing with Connor, not sleeping, stealing Connor, making deals with Holtz, I thought he acted a bit manic. I'm not saying that Wesley has bipolar disorder or anything, but there were similiarites.
I'm waiting to see if Abby's brother starts getting paranoid.
I'm not sure how I feel about Abby's brother talking to her while she's in a tramua, he doesn't know, and I think if he didn't it might not matter.
I called my mother up one Christmas crying and semi hysterical because I couldn't get my new cds to play in any of the stereos. Not just mine, but also hers and my dad's. I was freaked out because it was so weird that NONE of them would work and two of them were doing the same thing (the drawer was just opening and closing). I was paranoid. I didn't think the machines were plotting against me, and I didn't think there was actually some group trying to get me or anything. But I was really frustrated because I couldn't play my new cds and was thinking along the lines
"What if I am cursed and there's something weird about my body and I'll never be able to have another cd player that works around me again. I'll put cds in and nothing will happen?"
I never said this outloud, but I was thinking it. And it didn't seem to be a really illogical thing to think.
I don't think like that anymore, thank god. I have medicine that keeps me from getting manic or depressed. I will say that some of my weird flights of fancy might have made interesting stories if I could have ever kept my thoughts together long enough to write them down.
So, Abby's brother has shown up out of the blue. He rented a plane and he has a new girlfriend. Oh! she's young (she's not that much younger than the brother so I don't get what the big deal is)...but Abby's brother is acting very spontaneous and flighty. And it takes Abby to the end of the episode to wonder if her talking a mile a minute, claiming he's got several weeks leave from the Air Force brother might be manic.
I don't think it's really a jump to say YUP. One, because that would be typical ER storytelling.
And, well...if they aren't going in that direction then they are doing a great job of writing a guy who is acting manic but isn't.
Because, except for the renting the plane and flying all over the place...that was me a few years ago. Except I talked a LOT faster than that. And the phone conversation about the blender? about half way through that I woulda changed my mind and decided blenders are stupid and this is boring and why I don't I bake bread! (there was a bread machine).
Now, when Sally Field was on playing Abby's mom I couldn't relate as much because her mania manifested much differently. Plus I never got reallyreally manic, mostly I was hypomanic or depressed. Mostly depressed. Which is one reason, I believe, I spent so long with the wrong diagnosis.
Anyway, it's interesting to see that. When Wesley was going around dealing with Connor, not sleeping, stealing Connor, making deals with Holtz, I thought he acted a bit manic. I'm not saying that Wesley has bipolar disorder or anything, but there were similiarites.
I'm waiting to see if Abby's brother starts getting paranoid.
I'm not sure how I feel about Abby's brother talking to her while she's in a tramua, he doesn't know, and I think if he didn't it might not matter.
I called my mother up one Christmas crying and semi hysterical because I couldn't get my new cds to play in any of the stereos. Not just mine, but also hers and my dad's. I was freaked out because it was so weird that NONE of them would work and two of them were doing the same thing (the drawer was just opening and closing). I was paranoid. I didn't think the machines were plotting against me, and I didn't think there was actually some group trying to get me or anything. But I was really frustrated because I couldn't play my new cds and was thinking along the lines
"What if I am cursed and there's something weird about my body and I'll never be able to have another cd player that works around me again. I'll put cds in and nothing will happen?"
I never said this outloud, but I was thinking it. And it didn't seem to be a really illogical thing to think.
I don't think like that anymore, thank god. I have medicine that keeps me from getting manic or depressed. I will say that some of my weird flights of fancy might have made interesting stories if I could have ever kept my thoughts together long enough to write them down.
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And - - I can't believe that they would hire a good actor like Tom Everett Scott unless they were plannign some angst. You know?