/lit/ - Literature

I just got diagnosed as bipolar type 1 with psychotic features after I had a manic episode from Prozac. It was so bad that I crashed my car into a ditch going ninety (no major injuries, thankfully) and punched a police officer in the face afterwards. I was in jail for a while and then got sent to a mental institution, but after the manic episode was over I was completely fine and got sent back to jail (bonded out after a week). I’m now on a mood stabilizer and something for anxiety and feel fine. The police officer I hit still wants me to do a year in jail though :( pray for me frens

I like the idea of a soul and stuff, but why is it that if you remove or mess with certain parts of someone’s brain, their whole “them” can cage, e.g. Phineas Gage
>”The equilibrium or balance, so to speak, between his intellectual faculties and animal propensities, seems to have been destroyed. He is fitful, irreverent, indulging at times in the grossest profanity (which was not previously his custom), manifesting but little deference for his fellows, impatient of restraint or advice when it conflicts with his desires, at times pertinaciously obstinate, yet capricious and vacillating, devising many plans of future operations, which are no sooner arranged than they are abandoned in turn for others appearing more feasible. A child in his intellectual capacity and manifestations, he has the animal passions of a strong man. Previous to his injury, although untrained in the schools, he possessed a well-balanced mind, and was looked upon by those who knew him as a shrewd, smart business man, very energetic and persistent in executing all his plans of operation. In this regard his mind was radically changed, so decidedly that his friends and acquaintances said he was "no longer Gage."
We also know that all of your memories can be lost if you’re hit in the head hard enough, so I’m having a hard time believing in a soul even though I want to, mostly due to the fact that I really like Plato.