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Old Jun 02, 2020, 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by bpcyclist View Post
I have no answers, but I did just post on a different thread today that I sometimes feel like I should just live at the hospital, where I could have some support. More, anyway. And help remembering to take my meds.

"I am not from this wold. I have special powers. I can see inside people's brains," Hillary Duff character, War Inc.

That's eactly how I feel about myself. I know I have special powers. God gave them to me, to us. Why the hell else do you think Van Gogh could paint like that? Because he was "normal?" You think Einstein thought the way he did because he was normal? Please. Gimme a break. We are different. Why not try to celebrate it, rather than feel bad and marginalized by it? I am trying to move in this direction.

My therapist does not believe that people with bipolar disorder are typically mentally ill; she believes that our brains are structured differently, but in a good way...that the problem is society doesn't understand our brains. I'm not exactly sure where meds come into that picture, but I do think about her assertion.
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