No, not for me, the emotions get in the way of thinking, not in the way your thinking gets in the way of your emotions.

One wonders what our childhoods must have been like that caused our thinking to be skewed by emotions so, or why our skewed thinking affects our emotions.

In my case, my father was the stable, intelligent one. My mother (who was physically a beautiful Irish lady) had emotional problems, I'm almost certain of that, and one psychiatrist confirmed it. Was your childhood life in the home very different from mine?

That was the root of my problem, although I was told that all I needed was to be around healthy people. Sibling rivalry played a part in it, too, especially with a sister 5 years older who really put the screws to me when I was just 1 and 2 years old.

Oh, what's the ultimate point of it all?

We make our lives what we want them to be by our integrity, and the intelligence falls in line unless....and you name it. Something gets in the way of that for bipolar patients, and usually it's ghosts from the past in childhood (or even a bit of chocolate, lol, now that I've done my research, lol).

Good wishes.