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Originally Posted by BNLsMOM
I have a hard time too. In therapy I use a lot of metaphors, but even they don't pinpoint what I am trying to say. Unfortunately, there aren't words to describe exactly what we as humans and as people with bipolar feel.
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BNLsMOM, I do EXACTLY the same thing. I drive my husband crazy, because I use metaphors constantly as a way to try to articulate what something feels like. My Dx is only a month or so hence, but I have done this with him the entire 12 years we have been together.
I probably would have done it before that, too, but at the tail end of 10 kids and an introvert until my 20's, I honestly don't think anyone ever asked me to try to talk about my feelings before him.
I wonder if it's a BP thing or just a right-brain thing or what. I know I don't have a good grasp on what i am feeling most of the time, and only in hindsight can I do a post-mortem of sorts on my feelings from an earlier time. Anyway, I just thought it was funny that you do that, too.