WhiskerBiscuit
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- Sep 14, 2019
I think he doesn't believe he has mental problems at all. He'll just go along with the bipolar thing because victim points, and they give him free money for it.
I think there’s a little more to it.
The times that he seems to embrace his label are definitely associated with times he is playing the victim card and asking for special treatment. Definitely.
But I think the times he most commonly and most compliantly endorses the existence of his mental illness is when it’s a way to excuse an otherwise glaring failure or defect. So, for example, when he was in the fart box and going to school, he denied any mental illnesses. Then when he got kicked out and became homeless, he claimed he was glad he was out and that he liked being homeless as it was less lonely, etc. He never connected the mania to failing school or losing housing. He started getting banned from shelters and failed out of classes again. He began to need housing but couldn’t manage it. So then when he was doing that Outcast interview, he used his bipolar as the reason he got kicked out of the fart locker and stated that the lack of medications are why he acts out and can’t care for himself. Because admitting that he has bipolar was preferable to admitting that he has terrible behaviors. Then when he didn’t get that sober house, he cried bipolar and suicide until he got admitted to his current nursing home.
someone inpatient did some serious psycho education/ compliance training with him on bipolar, as he now seems to think that people will buy his “bipolar = creative” spin and the whole “it’s soooo unlikely I’ll give our kids bipolar” mythos.
As with many treatment resistant sorts, Lucas will treat his bipolar like his diabetes. He will stop managing his symptoms and medications and as he slacks on his basic care of his health, he will begin to deny these diagnoses as being accurate. He likes to think his diabetes is managed by his diet/exercise even though he doesn’t seem to check his sugars, watch what he eats, or be doing anything but getting fatter and puffier. He already seems to be slacking on his psych meds and once he is off, he will go back to claiming he doesn’t need meds and likely doesn’t have bipolar as he was unmedicated for years and (in his mind) was fine.
The cycle is common for SMI but usually really sad. Lucas’s disgusting personality makes it hilarious to see the cycle at play.