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Crazy, I'm crazy for feeling so lonely 〰 I'm crazy, crazy for feeling so blue 〽 Worry, why do I let myself worry ? ♻ ¿ Wondering what in the world did I do? 〰 I'm crazy for trying and crazy for crying 〽 And crazy for loving you-ooo-oo
~Willie Nelson, as sung by Patsy Cline~

“We all stand on the border between normal and abnormal,” we hear. Normal. What is that, even? One thing that's typical is that, “In a lifetime, we will all experience some difficulties.”

Jung Da “Eun” is a person who loves. She cares. This cruel world isn't always kind to such fragility. One thing I've learned from hitting bottom - from complete and total failure to stay afloat - is that we all have our limit: Mind-over-matter cannot fix everything. We can't power-thru every problem. Each one of us is capable of crashing. DDOS serves as an elementary school primer for mental illness. That is not a criticism. The treatment is gentle and simple, but the facts are true. We see that all types of people, successful and floundering, well-off and poor, from intact families and broken backgrounds, all types of people can struggle with mental illness. Park Bo-Young (Oh My Ghost-10, Doom at Your Service, Strong Girl Bong-Soon) is Eun. I love her. She's legendary in OMG, and she's one of my favorites just from that show. Lee Jung-Eun from OMG is reunited with Park Bo-Young as Song Hyo-Jin. She's my favorite actress right now. Her part as a nurse manager is not a big challenge. She doesn't do much until ep10. It's wonderful to see her onscreen, regardless.

DDOS is a 2023 release that is rated 91 on AWiki. It is 1 season consisting of 12 52-70 minute episodes. The opening credits, artwork and music are spot-on and properly set the mood. Jang Dong-Yoon (The Tale of Nokdu, My Man is Cupid-5.9) plays Song Yu-Chan, Eun's lifelong bff. This is the 1st effort for director Lee Jae-Kyu. Same for the writers: Lee Ra-Ha (webcomic), Lee Nam-Kyu, & Kim Da-Hee. DDOS is a drama that contains some romance, but romance is not the centerpiece. Even so, the primary romance is cute and the 2ndary one is sweet. Yeon Woo-Jin (Thirty Nine) plays Dong Go-Yun. I've only seen him as a recluse in My Shy Boss-6.5. In DDOS, he plays a wacko (in the funnest sort of way). It was great to watch him in such a different role ~ He's funny! Contrary to what one might think, he is NOT a patient. He's a doctor from the next unit over. He's an eccentric - a term used for functionally crazy people of means. Eccentric people often are such because they don't see the point in being fake to fit in with “normal” people. Eccentrics think that “normal” derives from one original and the sheeple who copy that original ~> y’all are nutz.

Nobody can recite the perfect formula or ratio, but a functioning society requires that we all hammer our individualism down to fit in with others. (Keep yourself and your domicile clean. Be polite. Don't lie, steal, or harm. Stop at the red light and go on green. Keep your word. Take your meds. Don't be too loud.) If we are too individualistic we create friction and strife. If we hammer ourselves down too much to fit in, though, we lose ourselves, usher in an oppressive system, and propagate phoniness & depression (Don't speak the truth as nobody can handle it. Don't wear/eat/like that, as people will think you're strange. Do this, don't do that. Join here. Hate those people. Vote this way. Don't disagree. Take your meds. Think this way.) There's not one thing normal about normal. It's often a means to bully others, “What we probably need right now is the courage to face down the hate directed at us. Yet our longing to be loved by others, our need for approval, they cause us to take the knives to our souls and carve out what we want others to see. That's the reason we are always enduring unhappiness and pain,” is one character‘s astute assessment. Gaslighting. Social anxiety. Paranoia. Toxic mothers. Bully bosses. Obsession. Compulsion. Obsessive-compulsiveness. Depression. Narcissism. Suicide. Most odd behavior is linked to pain. So how, then, should we live? Unselfishly, most of all. Authentically, next. And we should re-examine our presuppositions every few years. Remember, it's simply impossible to be human and to be correct about everything.

One patient wants to talk to the psych about obsessive knuckle cracking - it makes his knuckles large and that could “hurt others”. After a couple visits to discuss this weirdness, the doc has had it and cuts him off: “Large knuckles won't hurt anybody anyway!,” is doc's parting shot. Later we see how and why the doc was so tragically wrong. It's funny.

“Strange, isn't it? We always notice other people's flaws before our own flaws. When it comes to that, we're all blind.” Amen to that. They take a deep dive into the stigma around mental illness. The nurses comment about how many of them chose that field due to a sick loved one.
Eun is compassionate. That may make her slightly less efficient at her job, but does it really make her worse at it? She's providing care and encouragement to those who see very little of those human qualities. The mentally ill tend to experience public ignorance, intolerance, and isolation. “It's not that I like my child being called disabled,’ says one mom, “but that is the reality.” What is more difficult for a parent to go through than mental illness in their child? It's not only heartbreaking, but it's also emotionally and physically exhausting. It's Hell's roller coaster and the off-switch isn't working.

Sometimes, all that pain leads to suicide. They couldn't address mental illness without going /there/. A patient’s self-inflicted demise causes multiple ripples through the unit. One of the nurses is so heartbroken that she ends up being committed for depression in the fallout. She doesn't want to come back to work. ‘Can you not take a pulse now? Can you not set up an IV? If you can do your job, who cares what anyone thinks about you?’ Sometimes we want to quit because things didn't go the way we wanted. Well, welcome to the human race! The people who think things are going the way they want just haven't had their troubles yet. Nobody gets everything s/he wants.

The rest of the unit is in pain over the suicide, too. “Self-harm is really a cry for help. Some might want attention, while others have been pushed away so often by society that they start believing they deserve it,” a nurse opines. Cliches contain truth, but are often treated as final truths when they fall short of being so. One cliche that is not entirely false but still does nothing to bridge the gap between logic and emotions is that suicide is an act of cowardice, which clearly isn't entirely true, either. I don't believe that suicide is the answer to anybody's problems, but it is an act borne from unbearable pain. If one hasn't felt emotional pain so horrendous that one wishes s/he was never born, then perhaps, be slow to pronounce callous judgments (shut-up and count your blessings?). The whole unit reacts to the death of the patient, but each professional also handles it personally. “Dealing with death isn't something you can just get used to. It's sad every single time.” One new employee accused the lead doctor of not caring about the patient's demise and gets a talking to. Later we'll see that doctor, who supposedly doesn't care, taking some pills.

Pills. That seems to be what Western medicine is now reduced to. In my case, the pills nearly killed me. I had Serotonin Syndrome, and none of my doctors caught it - Not even when I was experiencing escalating seizures and losing my mind. Doctors don't seem to think in terms of bad drug reactions. Their answer for me was only, ever, MORE 💊. I am thankful to Redditers because they are the ones who put me on the path to recovery. Medication can be a life saver, but the ultimate recovery would be to get off the meds, if it can be done safely. Nearly dying from prescription medication has spurred me onto a journey of health. We have a plethora of chronic illnesses now that hardly existed a few decades ago. If you find yourself overcome with anxiety, depression, or any number of GI or autoimmune diseases, please consider, along with whatever else you are doing, going organic and eliminating sugar. Not only does sugar have highly addictive qualities (so they put it in everything) and zero nutritional benefits, but sugar and grains feed fungi that exist in our bodies, and these fungi can affect our emotional and GI health. This is why you'll hear “health nuts” constantly going on about gut-health. Serotonin receptors are in the gut, not the brain! For me, going off the meds was only part of my recovery. I had to clean out my whole system and it is an ongoing process. We joke about the warnings that accompany drug commercials and all the ingredients in our food that we cannot pronounce, but there is a dark side to this stuff that isn't funny - not one bit. Years before I knew I had a problem (I was on the medication that was slowly killing me for 10 years) I heard cardiologist Christopher Davis, a nationally recognized “Top Doc”, speak. He realized that the medical industry was generating lots of income, but not making anybody well. He now runs a clinic that focuses on the right food as the primary medicine and he's healing people. He's getting them off of the meds. I might not be completely sane, but he certainly is, and thankfully there's a growing number of functional medicine doctors with the same vision, who see themselves as more than a drug-pusher.

In all, shows like this are a public service. This subject is a heartbreaker, so with the remaining space, here's some jokes to lighten the mood.

☄I have generalized anxiety disorder, but it sucks because it affects me specifically.

☄They say mental illness runs in my family. But in my family, we’re all pretty lazy, so it just sort of meandered its way through the generations.

☄I don’t do drugs. I do therapy. Unfortunately, therapy isn’t as fun and it’s just as expensive.

☄I have bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety, disordered eating, and psychosis—which are more friends than I had in elementary school.

☄I never say I’m bipolar. I like to scream it at the top of my lungs while running around naked at the supermarket.

☄It makes perfect sense mental illness runs in my family. I’d run too if I had a family like mine.

☄The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your three best friends. If they’re OK, then it’s YOU.

☄My therapist told me that I over analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother.

☄A question that always makes me hazy is, is it me or are the others crazy?

☄They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me!

☄I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth. She was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers and a bartender. (Rodney Dangerfield)

☄Hello, welcome to the mental health hotline.
If you have obsessive compulsive disorder, press 1 repeatedly.
If you are codependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you.
If you have multiple personality syndrome, press 3, 4, 5, and 6.
If you suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, we know who you are and what you want. Stay on the line so we can trace your call.
If you are delusional, press 7 and your call will be transferred to the mothership.
If you are hearing voices, listen carefully and a small voice will tell you which number to press.
If you are manic depressive, it doesn't matter which button you press. No one will answer anyway.
If you are dyslexic, press 96969696969696.
If you have a nervous disorder, please fidget with the pound button until a representative comes on the line.
If you have amnesia, press 8 and state your name, address, phone number, date of birth, social security number, and your mother's and grandmother's maiden names.
If you have post traumatic stress disorder, slowly and carefully press 911.
If you have bi-polar disorder, please leave a message after the beep. Or before the beep. Or after the beep. Please wait for the beep.
If you have short term memory loss, please try you call again in a few minutes.
If you have low self esteem, please hang up. All our representatives are busy.


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Happiness isn't complicated. Being free to do what you like, that's happiness.


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Age 11+With a caution about some infrequently scattered PG-13
Language: ($h!+, pr!(k, b!+ch) this is a gentle introduction to the issue of mental illness that reinforces compassion. To that end it is well suited for kids and adults. Rated TV-14


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