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Phoenix_1 · Aug 26, 2013, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Anonymous32734

I like that. "I can see you; therefore, you are."

Validation. What a crazy thought. we all need validation, to know that we are not the only ones feeling the things that we try to hide, try to make sense of and try to get past.

So I have to wonder if that is the point of all of this. Of a support group and talking to others who's emotions swirl around like a washer machine on spin cycle.... If it is all about validation?

I got my dx of BP in 2011. I didn't believe what the pdoc said. I took lithium for 10 months and the only thing in my life that changed was that I gained 30 pounds that now I can't lose.

I was here in 2011 but drifted away and stopped coming to the forums. This month another (2nd) pdoc told me I was BP. So I stopped and took time out and read books, and thought about my life. I thought, maybe they're right. So I came back here.

There is a thread here called "You know you're BP if...". Almost everything that everyone posted I had done at some point in my life. The validation felt SO good, I can't even describe it. I felt like I had a whole world of new friends and had come home. Validation is so important.