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Originally Posted by VenusHalley
what is "full recovery" and "full and normal life"? To never have intense feeling and work 9-5 unimaginative job? Marry, get weekend house, two kids and one dog? (as opposed to be high and low... spend some time in India cause you can and live somewhat chaotically... but in the end wonderfully)?
Many BPs are somewhat artsy or otherwise out there. So "normal life"... that gives me hives (just yesterday I had "I don't wanna be teacher!" debate with my mom... teachers are proper. I am not).
So maybe we are that we... as on omen. To do things "normals" wouldn't consider.
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I should clarify, by a "normal life" I mean free of depressive episodes and manic episodes which for some cause problems such as suicidal thoughts, self-harming behaviors, loss of motivation, irritability, sexual promiscuity etc.
Not completely either, just reducing the severity of such symptoms.
Though I do understand and emphasize with your views on leading a typical life, I do want to live a typical life. I want to settle down, get a 30 hour a week job, have a place of my own, etc. I do know some other people that are bipolar and dream of emotional stability and some even a typical; boring life.
Emotional stability (to some extent rather than a roller-coaster of emotions) is what I mean by normal life. Rather than the life I'm living at the moment, which is just full of nothing. And empty. I'm getting there, though and am seeing an improvement: using not willpower alone but also taking medication (for now, at least) and maintaining good relationships with my relatives and friends.
RB.
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