[OutlawedSpirit]

Does anyone else ever wonder, "why me?"? I mean, not only do we have bp, but most of us have other issues as well, being it PTSD, OCD, Anxiety disorders, you name it. I mean, really, isn't one enough? Isn't one more than enough?

The idea behind reincarnation is that each time you are reincarnated, you are supposed to learn to get closer to nirvana. I'm not sure if I believe in reincarnation or not, but couldn't we work on one lesson at a time?

Sitting on the verge of depression, I had an interesting thought. While thinking sad thoughts, and getting stuck in that tailspin, it's almost funny to think this is really all in my head. The mania, the depression, the irritation, the aggression, the anger, the hopelessness, is all a hallucination in it's own right. If a hallucination is our senses perceiving something that isn't there, isn't bp sort of just one big hallucination? I mean, we're feeling emotions, but their causes aren't always. In one hallucination our brain convinces us that we see things that aren't there, and in the other, our brain convinces us to feel something that maybe shouldn't be there.

[hamster-bamster]

Originally Posted by OutlawedSpirit

I mean, we're feeling emotions, but their causes aren't always.

I do not understand this sentence. Please explain.

[Anika.]

I think a lot of it is very much like an illusion. Our perceived reality, and if so then we also have to power to percieve it in a different way. I like these ideas because they leave a lot of room to work in. although I think of them as illusions, similar train of thought. I really don't like ideas or concepts about feelings or emotions that are set in stone. Our emotions are not set in stone, they don't seem congruent with each other.

How much of this Bipolar, ptsd, anxiety, panic, etc is just overlapping, surely they share some roots. In my opinion.

[OutlawedSpirit]

Originally Posted by hamster-bamster

I do not understand this sentence. Please explain.

I guess I didn't exactly finish my thought all the way. I wrote out something else, then erased half of it, and apparently that left it incomplete. I meant to say that although we are experiencing feelings and emotions, often there is no reason for us to be feeling them. I mean there are triggers that can make us feel the emotions, but even those don't always make sense as far as what they should make us feel, and what they actually make us feel.

[hamster-bamster]

Originally Posted by OutlawedSpirit

I guess I didn't exactly finish my thought all the way. I wrote out something else, then erased half of it, and apparently that left it incomplete. I meant to say that although we are experiencing feelings and emotions, often there is no reason for us to be feeling them. I mean there are triggers that can make us feel the emotions, but even those don't always make sense as far as what they should make us feel, and what they actually make us feel.

That is true of every person, MI or not.

[Trippin2.0]

HB, I think OLS meant more along the lines of, waking up feeling worthless and wanting to die, after a pleasant evening and a good night's rest. That worthlessness is uncalled for - None of my friends relate to that... I agree with you and Anika, bp is alot like one huge illusion/hallucination. I have very few triggers (less than 5) so I have random cycles and episodes and it DOES look and feel like a huge illusion. But like Anika said, it leaves alot of leeway to adjust perspectives and perceptions...