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Originally Posted by hamster-bamster
that was not the impression the series of posts made, but in general what you are saying it is true. The choice of words ("cheerful") reflects more on mood than on attitude (optimism is an attitude and cheerful is a mood). So just a lucky mood.
I, in general, like to read about people overcoming struggles. I have read here about a person who peed on herself in bed in such depth of depression that she did not care she stayed in her own piss, and later she did find strength to get up. That is the kind of thing I like to read (and we may majorly disagree on important topics, that is OK). I did not have the impression that OP has such stories to share, but of course I might be wrong. Of course, it is always nice to know that someone has been lucky enough to have been dealt the cheerful side of things.
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Ah, that was me
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And I think the real issue here is not being articulated. I'll make an attempt.
OP seems to be questioning the foundations of "bipolar disorder" and later the implications of what it means to hear, "you have a psychiatric illness". This is something that is difficult to do once you've accepted and internalized the medical view of "bipolar disorder" and from what I can understand, as someone who also questions this perspective, is that the medical view must be accepted for it to really work in some peoples lives. I've observed, not in this thread alone, that many who accept this perspective take questions as personal attack, much like patriotism or religion.
Some terms like "personality" were used which confused the issue for those all too familiar and ingrained with the "academic" understanding of the words too.
It's like you're talking about the same thing but on two different plains.