A part of being a human being means growth, growing older, growing wiser. Everyone does it, even people without mental illness.

The interesting thing about people with Bipolar Disorder is that, due to their heightened level of creativity, and frequent energetic episodes, new ideas and revelations often come at them faster than to the average person. And so a psychotic episode can feasibly offer an individual a huge amount of awareness all at once, whereas people without mental illness may make the same revelations more gradually, and over a long period of time.

The thing is, once a psychotic episode changes your personality and perspective, you are then a different person, and can never go back to how you were. This happens to everyone, to people with Bipolar it can happen more rapidly when psychosis occurs.