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Default Mar 21, 2022 at 10:29 AM
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I have a therapist who introduced me to a new idea I thought I would share.

I'm not bipolar. I don't have PTSD or mental illness


The illness is wanting control. It's the illness that wants me manic or depressed. It's the illness that wants me jumpy and paranoid. It's the illness that is trying to sabotage my happiness.

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Default Mar 21, 2022 at 02:51 PM
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I agree with your therapist. Awhile back I read an article on the neuroscience of mental illnesses. It said that basically, mental illnesses are neurological illnesses with psychiatric symptoms. The brain itself is broken in some way. And the kind of brokenness it suffers manifests with psychiatric symptoms that receive various classifications. There are abnormalities in brain anatomy, physiology, brain chemistry . . . abnormalities in regional cerebral blood flow and energy utilization [glucose metabolism] that can actually be seen live through real-time brain imaging studies. There can be abnormalities in brain cell architecture even at the microscopic level.
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Default Mar 21, 2022 at 04:38 PM
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I have a therapist who introduced me to a new idea I thought I would share.

I'm not bipolar. I don't have PTSD or mental illness


The illness is wanting control. It's the illness that wants me manic or depressed. It's the illness that wants me jumpy and paranoid. It's the illness that is trying to sabotage my happiness.
I guess I'm a bit confused. Are you saying you prefer to be a "person with bipolar" rather than just "bipolar"? Some people like the person first language. Or are you saying you don't have a diagnosis at all?
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Default Mar 22, 2022 at 12:47 AM
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If I'm understanding it correctly then I like that idea because it distinguishes between the MI and the whole person. Because a person is more than just the symptoms of a mental illness.

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I guess I'm a bit confused. Are you saying you prefer to be a "person with bipolar" rather than just "bipolar"? Some people like the person first language. Or are you saying you don't have a diagnosis at all?
I'm saying that bipolar has me.

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I'm saying that bipolar has me.
Interesting. Never thought about it like that.
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Interesting. Never thought about it like that.
Me, too. 😂😂😂😂😂

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If I'm understanding it correctly then I like that idea because it distinguishes between the MI and the whole person. Because a person is more than just the symptoms of a mental illness.

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Default Apr 12, 2022 at 07:17 PM
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I love this! I think it works well with emotions too, like “this is joyous” or “this is anger, what is it trying to tell me?” We are not the thing, we notice or experience it’s existence in our world. Beyond this world we may experience very differently. Thanks for this. 👏👏👏

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Awhile back I read an article on the neuroscience of mental illnesses. It said that basically, mental illnesses are neurological illnesses with psychiatric symptoms. The brain itself is broken in some way.
Thomas Insel and the Future of the Mental Health System | Psychology Today

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Thomas Insel, who directed the National Institute of Mental Health, is promoting his new book, which carries the title of Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health. It is a curious title and a curious endeavor, given that his 13 years in charge of the nation’s mental health research produced dismal results. When The New York Times recently interviewed him about the book, the headline spoke of him as “the Nation’s Psychiatrist.” If he is that, the outlook for those with serious mental illness is a dark one.

In Insel’s years as director, he was fixated on genetics and neuroscience. Based on family studies, biological psychiatrists had long speculated that mental illness had strong genetic roots. The decoding of the human genome, which was accomplished a year after Insel took office, together with the ability to use PCR (polymerase chain reaction) to make unlimited copies of a specific DNA sample, fueled expectations that the genetic underpinnings of disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder would soon be uncovered, and NIMH poured resources into such studies.

Yet the expected genetic connections have essentially failed to materialize. In the words of two leading psychiatrists, Rudolf Uher and Michael Rutter, “Molecular genetic studies of psychiatric disorders have done a lot to find very little. In fact, in the era of genome-wide association studies, psychiatric disorders have distinguished themselves from most types of physical illness by the absence of strong genetic associations.”

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