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Horror Story

When you’re sick, you feel sick, right?  

Maybe you don’t feel sick right away, but eventually, when the bacteria or viruses or inherited flaws or whatever start to destroy parts of your body, you feel it, and you don’t like it.  

Suppose there were a disease that you couldn’t feel, that you never felt, that you actually liked sometimes. Then, one day, you just died. But there the invisible little invaders were, living inside your body, til death do you part.  

Suppose, as medicine became better, some doctors could recognize, from certain signs, that some people had these invisible invaders inside them. Even the best scientists still couldn’t detect the invaders themselves. They couldn’t see them, hear them, feel them, taste them (yecch!), or smell them. But they could use logic or intuition (I feel it in my guts.) to deduce or induce (gut feeling) that these tiny invaders were there in some people’s bodies. Imagine that these few, gifted doctors desperately tried all sorts of different chemicals to try to cure the invaded people. Meanwhile, some of the not-so-gifted doctors insisted that the invisible invaders didn’t exist because, they reasoned, if they existed you would be able to see them, wouldn’t you?  

Now the horror story gets worse. Suppose the invaders are able to trick the people they invaded that they’re not there. Imagine this: 

1.       You ask most people, people who have not been invaded by the “horror germ”, if the germ is inside them. They will say, “How do I know? It’s invisible.”  

2.       You ask people who have been invaded by the “horror germ” if the germ is inside them. They’ll say, “Absolutely not.”  

You’ll say, “How do you know? The germ is invisible.”  

They’ll say any number of things, e.g.:  

1. I’m really smart.
2. I’m very sensitive, so I can detect it.
3. Mind your own business.

It’s a horror germ all right. It gets into your mind and tricks it. It makes you sure that it’s not there, but it makes you like the germs that are in you sometimes. (This disease doesn’t make sense, does it?.)  

This is a horror story because it’s horrible to think about a vicious disease in your body that you have no way of knowing about. And the doctors can’t detect it, so there’s no way to get rid of it.  

More horrible: such a disease does exist.  

It’s bipolar disorder.

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