Accepting bipolar disorder

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I say bipolar is part of me its who i am.i feel like im half me half bipolar . Exepting it has been so hard and sometimes i just cry for it to go away please go away but its not going to .

How do others feel ?

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Suzie79

07/05/2016 at 01:27

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Fighting the bpd/bipolar isn't going to make it go away. Recently Ive been trying to embrace that part of me and to accept it..its part of who I am. I was glad to find out about this website so I can I can get talking to others like me.We have many gifts and talents. On our good days we can be likeable, charming and funny.

The bad days when we're in that black hole you just have to keep telling yourself it will pass, because it does.

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07/05/2016 at 20:36

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I've learnt to except it, despite the bad choices/near bad choices from the mania.

I think it's more 'tripolar' because it gives you a unique perspective, from low, medium and high. When I was first diagnosed, after over three years of being to afraid to seek help, I had a teacher who told me that bipolar people are often geniuses.

Byron, Poe, Churchill, Stephen Fry, Hemingway, Sinatra, Van Gogh, and Alfred Hitchcock to name but a few. We're in good company.

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14/05/2016 at 05:09

Yeah i just go yeah i am crazy actually when people ask ;) I joke, but depression it used to feel bi polar but i have just felt low mood for a long time no high mood, i miss the high mood as mine were very safe once i just felt really happy. Now i feel nothing

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28/05/2020 at 13:02

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@Jemzy01 @Suzie79 @Quoth_the_Raven I feel sometimes like I've accepted it too much and that it's taken me over as a person, like I don't have any other sides to me but my disorder. Do any of you feel like that?

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23/06/2020 at 15:48

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@BiPoMe I get what you mean. But like @Suzie79‍ said, I think fighting it won't make it better or make it go away. I try to look as it as a trait that makes me unique.

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12/04/2021 at 13:05

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Hello everyone,

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28/04/2021 at 19:29

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It was hard for me to find my identity apart from my bipolar but when I accepted that it was part of me and I could box it off and give it a label I was able to concentrate on the other positive sides of my personality. Bipolar is part of who you are but it's a condition not a personality trait. There are things I have done when manic that I wouldn't dream of doing when normal but my condition doesn't make me who I am. My ongoing battle in life to prevent myself from being hospitalised due to bipolar is just part of life. Luckily I haven't had a serious episode since 2003.

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02/06/2021 at 16:48

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@JTMckenna123 I think that's one of the biggest struggles we face with bipolar. Some days I have to remind both myself and other people that BPD is not me, it's just something I have. It's something I'm still working on, trying to almost embrace it.

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11/10/2023 at 22:18

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Being bipolar is part of who I am. It has caused problems along the way. Interrupting college or work, or losing touch with family and friends s who either can't cope wit it or just do not understand. I have always been open about my condition. I have never hidden it. I am happy to explain to people how it affects me and to a degree how it affects others. There is still too much stigma around mental health. You can have bipolar disorder and live a normal life.

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