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Old Feb 21, 2012, 04:54 PM
LaughinMan LaughinMan is offline
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Yes, people with Bipolar disorder have a very hard time repressing emotions at all, that is true, but you seem to not have grasped exactly what I am saying. My point is that due to emotions being repressed during childhood, the individual in later life exceeds what I suppose I'd call an emotional capacity which causes them to enter episodes of mania and depression. The repressed emotions help develop Bipolar disorder but are not necessarily apart of what Bipolar disorder essentially is. Rather, Bipolar disorder is a neurological "problem" carried out by neurotransmitters which create mania and depression because of the repressed emotions. Perhaps it is more correct to say that Bipolar disorder allows the individual to "expend" some emotion through the aid of the chemicals found in the brain.

Now then, as to how the theory applies to those who feel they did not have repressed emotions during childhood , all I can say is that that is definitely the major weakness to my theory, I will not lie. But I would also like to point out that although one may feel they never really repressed their emotions in childhood, we can never reallly know exactly how anything we experience in our lives affects us. In my opinion, one does not necessarily have to have had any particularly abusive or traumatic experiences during or throughout childhood, especially according to society's standards, for someone to have a minor or significant "change" in one's emotional status. A rather permanent change. Perhaps the people who also experience such a change are already more susceptible to such because of their genetics, another factor of major relevance towards Bipolar disorder. Nothing is for certain however, and I would not blame anyone for remaining highly skeptical but I still feel the theory is at the least, plausible.