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Originally Posted by charo224488
You may never feel 'normal', because once you have a diagnosis you know that you are different. Don't think of it as different in a bad way, think of it as special. You have thoughts and ideas that no one else has. You are capable of anything. Normal is over-rated! Good luck!
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You nailed it! "Normality" is subjective anyway.....what your kind of normal is may not be mine, and vice-versa. And that's OK.
You're also spot on about what happens when one is confirmed to have a mental illness......there is no way to unring the bell, no way to go back to life before the diagnosis. That was the part I struggled with for the better part of a year after my own dx, and even when I go for awhile without thinking about it, the disappointment is always ready to rush back in when I remember that I have bipolar, and it's NOT going away.
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