Saturday, May 10, 2008
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Happy or Thin?
A friend on xanga wrote a post and I asked her if it was ok for us to discuss her topic. Here is her post:"I cant decide.. The lesser of two evils is upon me and I dont know what to do.. My doctor appointment is on the 15th and it's for a follow up after having my meds changed.. The problem is, the medicine they added, the one the stupid pharmacy tech told me was going to make me gain weight... well it did.. And I am not happy about it one bit... On the other hand, I havent felt this stable in a very long time... sh**(edit).
I really dont know..
My pastor whom I respect and adore asks me "dont you think it's better to be heavier and happy"..? Uuuhh NO... I dont feel happy about this lonja I have developed.. not one bit..
So what is it...?
Is it better to be happy and "healthy" or thinner and manic...?"
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Comments (104)
I'd choose thin. There are other ways to get happy.
And to be honest; there's something sickeningly pathetic about those "nothing tastes as good as thin feels" girls.
Let me turn to the Bible for this one.
It doesn't seem to have an answer.
i think there's different meds they could be using that would give them both.
i think..heavier and happy. you can diet and exercise the weight off, but it's hard to fix mental illness by yourself.
Can't see as how any option that includes "manic" as being all that great.
Cancer makes you lose weight. Or at least the treatment. Speaking of cancer, I haven't been this happy for a long, long time. Mainly because I finally have something to write about on my blog again.
the healthy answer is not what most people believe it is, because most people are sicker than they'd like to admit.
i know that i SHOULD want to be happy and healthy, but i'm far more comfortable being dangerously thin and anxious because that's what i'm used to.In this case, I think heavier and happier...but I can see why it's a difficult decision.
Well.. It depends on the type of manic, if its they hyper-happy manic I can understand how she would rather not gain weight.. but me personally I'm thick and I love it. I'd rather gain weight and be stable than be thin and insane.
:)
~Misa
Well I'm a happy chubby lmao I guess my methabolism allows me to behappy and kind'a fit.
Healthy and happy. How is anything else even an option? People who get prescribed those meds really need them. It's to treat an illness. And she would cast away the treatment because it makes her a little bit fatter?? WTF?
I would advise the girl to focus on treating and healing herself first, then on developing her spirit, and on her body last. She shouldn't be so shallow when something so precious as her mental health is at stake.
And by the way what is a lonja??
This is obvious.
happy and healthy! if you're a couple pounds over but feel great about yourself, why not?
Being mentally stable is much more important than being thin. If you are finally mentally stable you can work on either changing your lifestyle a little to counter act the weight gain or work on changing your attitude about the weight gain and learning to love yourself with a few more pounds.
I've been both and I personally prefer thin and manic.
I would die if I was fat. But if the meds were really helping, I would stay fat, and exercise like crap
happy & healthy..for me, if I wasn't on my meds I'd be super messed up, so its imperative that I take them.
Definitely thin and manic.
Or wait ... maybe fat and happy.
No ... wait ... thin and manic. Fat and happy.
NO!
GAH!
Isn't it supposed to be about balance? ::sigh:: If only we could have our cake ... and eat it too.
While baking five more cakes. Happily.
I'd rather gain weight & have a healthy state of mind than be be unstable & skinny. I'm sure I'd hate to have to be in that situation but that just seems to be the better option to me.
The problem of happiness is that one needs to be able to assess what they're compairing their happiness with. Are they happy with their life, are they satisfied? Or do you measure happiness by the plesurable experiences alone?
Happiness is way to overrated some days.
But as for happiness vs. mental stability, it comes down to; do you want to be able to manage your life better or do you want to be always stuck due to the concept of a numberical impossibility of weight management?
'nuff said...
I'll take chubby and stable over thin and manic any day of the week.
@RedHairedCelt - Amen sista! Though I think we pretty much already knew that about each other.