- Youtube: Cathy Batistessa - RivaHey, what did you know about insanity? You want to tell me what is mad and what is useful thinking It doesn't work like this, you know? Because I don't agree You really know nothing about insanity Oh, what a way to go to sanity Disrespecting, disregarding, disillusioning bullshit every day, hey, hey, hm-mm Disrespecting, disregarding, money-grabbing, battle starting Hey, in my own world, this is insanity In my own world, this isn't sanity Oh, river run clearly through my mind Oh, river run freely through my heart I've got something to share with you it's story of me Of a young girl battered and bruised by society Regretting nothing, forgiving everything I'd throw a hug at all my friends and enemies Sometimes it's hard to live this Sometimes it hurts Sometimes it takes all my courage 'Cause that's the river Oh, river run clearly through my mind Oh, river run freely through my heart Oh, river run clearly through my mind Oh, river run freely through my heart I got nothing to fear in this world, my will is good And since I respect myself, people do so too Hey, I've been paranoid and down to hell But I get back on my feet, I came back to tell, hey, yeah Sometimes it's hard to live this Sometimes it hurts But it is just the most rewarding It is the river Oh, river run clearly through my mind Oh, river run freely through my heart Oh, river run freely through my mind Oh, river run freely through my heart Oh, river run freely through my mind
I'm always surprised how well this song and its lyrics resonate with my Mental Health journey. What I'm told about my illness does seem just insane and wrong. I get the 'evidence based' reasoning behind it, but cannot escape how that relies on assumptions that everybody's 'bipolar disorder' works the same way. I cannot escape the idea that in trying to make psychiatry practicable, things have been simplified beyond the point where they capture the problems. This site was always about trying to communicate the nature of my particular version of Neurodivergent+Bipolar+Etc that I deal with.