![]() ![]() So wrapped up in their own glory that they turned this young lady’s tragedy into a tool for internet fame. But while you get sucked into the ridiculous, breathless theories up to and including Satanic involvement, just remember that she was not that video, those last images that people poured over frame by frame, achingly hopeful to find something that wasn’t there. I’m not going to rehash the entire documentary, you can watch it if you want. If you want to know what bipolar-1 can do, ask someone with bipolar-1! These bloggers had no idea about the illness, so I want to be clear this is, in fact, what bipolar disorder can do to a person. When it was revealed that she was suffering with mental illness late in the documentary, the keyboard warriors conspiracy theory community said, “Oh no, that doesn’t happen, she was carried to the water tower or killed elsewhere or sacrificed or…but that’s not what mental illness does!” My heart broke because I knew instantly what was happening, I’m certain others like me did too. This young lady so full of promise, taken so soon. My heart broke for her and what she went through. I knew this because I am also bipolar-1 and I also had a psychotic break years ago. I knew this before I learned she had a history of these breaks. I knew this before I knew she was bipolar-1. I watched the screen, her behavior, the inexplicable movements and seeming paranoia, and said “She’s probably bipolar, and she’s having a psychotic break.” And it turns out, that’s exactly what happened. While so many people were looking for a reason, trying to make a horrible event even worse, ruining an innocent man’s life because he was an artist they didn’t understand, while they watched the video and couldn’t make sense of it at all, my heart ached. Ms Lam died in February 2013, the video came out soon after. There’s a new docuseries about it, plus news stories, reports, and a near infinite number of conspiracy theories – surely she was murdered, the hotel staff were involved, LAPD covered it up, there’s a curse on the hotel, a man who wasn’t even in the country at the time but looked “different” must have done it, she was drugged, or otherwise compromised. By now, most people are aware of the tragic death of Elisa Lam. ![]()
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