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Originally Posted by BipolaRNurse
So-called "oversensitivity" and bipolar disorder go together like salt and pepper. I don't know too many BPers who aren't acutely sensitive to every sling and arrow that comes their way, whether real or imagined.
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Originally Posted by genetic
It goes with the territory, I think. Bipolar people are often gifted, and giftedness has as one of its characteristics extreme sensitivity. Makes me wonder in what field (s) you are gifted: is it art (usually the case), sculpture, design, music, engineering, or what?
Enjoy it and disregard what critics say. It's inborn and meant to be helpful in fulfilling your life's dreams.
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It does very much seem like a BP thing. Unfortunately it has a major effect on my mood - I quite easily swing due to triggers, so that aspect of the sensitivity I'd like to manage better as it does at times make me too low, not just a bit teary. But yes I am sensitive to 'every sling and arrow' that comes my way, most definitely. It can be a hard way to live at times but at the same time it's just me.
I like the idea of channeling the sensitivity, and that it might help me fulfill my 'life's dreams'. It has at least at some level helped in this way. I am a 'gifted' writer and musician. I am also an empath although that gets taken advantage of now and then, though I have now learnt how not to be swallowed up by other people.
The idea of giftedness is an interesting one too - I read Alice Miller's "The Drama of the Gifted Child" and it made a lot of sense to me. How bout the rest of you? Have you been able to channel your sensitivity into a creative outlet?