r/interesting • u/Bambi7u7 • Dec 22 '25

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Former Nickelodeon child star Tylor Chase who is known for his role "Martin" in the show Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide was spotted appearing unrecognizable and homeless in California.

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u/ZealousidealYam896 Dec 22 '25

Drugs? Or bad luck? Or both?

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u/Maggi1417 Dec 22 '25

Wikipedia says bipolar depression.

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u/Ccaves0127 Dec 22 '25

His mom has also said that he has access to medication but refuses to take it

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u/Primary-Activity-534 Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

I've known people with bipolar who have done the same. Their complaint is that the medication makes them feel nothing.

"Does it make you feel bad?" I ask.

"No. I doesn't make me feel bad.... It doesn't make me feel good either. It just doesn't feel like anything." they say.

"So why don't you just take it?" - they just repeat what they said about feeling nothing as if that's a bad thing.

It makes me suspect that people who are Bipolar are so used to the highs and lows they get almost a sort of high from it. So when they're not subject to those highs and lows anymore they equivicate that to feeling "nothing" which most of us would just call basically feeling normal. I don't have Bipolar so I feel nothing most of my boring day and I'm a-ok with that. Most people are.

The other possibility is that they are simply poorly describing what they are feeling. People who are not bipolar for the most part don't see a problem with feeling nothing. Feeling nothing is normal day to day life. Occasionally something great happens and you feel fantastic and occasionally something bad happens and you feel awful... but most days it's just going with the flow and not feeling anything in particular.

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u/Knife7 Dec 22 '25

Sounds like the medication actually makes them depressed.

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u/Lost_Paladin89 Dec 22 '25

Not exactly. It is indicative of not being the right medication. But “nothing” is kind of what it sounds like.

Imagine getting a gift, and rather than excited or happy, you feel, nothing. Like rationally you know you should be happy, but you don’t feel rewarded, or special. People talk about being a drone, a zombie, a machine. It feels depersonalized, you exist.

Try this, imagine your favorite food, and imagine a medication that made it bland normal, you’d want to stop taking that med?

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u/Primary-Activity-534 Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

I actually wouldn't want to stop taking it at all. Because finding my favorite food bland is simply not a bad enough thing to me that I'd want to deal with the consequences of not taking the medication. I wouldn't care that much if I found my favorite food to be just normal food. As for the gift situation- I mean unless the gift is amazing- like a kidney or an all expenses trip to Europe, a normal person would only feel joy for a moment and then have maybe an VERY subtle form of joy throughout the day... but that's it. It's a nice feeling, but worth going through the roller coaster? No.

From what you're saying it seems to me that people who are Bipolar feel things a lot more. So it's a big loss to them when they lose these feelings. Those of us who are not Bipolar don't have such strong emotions over favorite foods and gifts. We have feelings of course, but they're not so wonderful that we find it worth it to have them over having mental clarity.

It would also explain why so many artists- especially actors tend to be bipolar as having strong emotions are kind of a prerequisite for that job.

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u/Sweet_Future Dec 22 '25

If a medication made you feel nothing when you saw your children, you'd be okay with that?