Jenn4Senior Contributor
Bipolar as identity theft
Hey friends.
Something that I struggle with having bipolar is the notion that I am a certain way bc I have bipolar. Like my brain is faulty and doesn’t run properly, but my characteristics (and to an extent my feelings) r me, and who I am and how I was made and who I’ve become. Like it’ll be like on a list of symptoms or so, bipolar people are typically creative, or energetic, or joyous, or charming, or emotional, and when I was diagnosed it was like, but they’re real big part of my personality, that’s who I am, not bc I’m ill or disordered. It was like they were stolen from me. And also, while it’s advantageous if people close to me understand that I have a rogue agent brain that causes me grief sometimes and doesn’t run properly, I don’t ever want people to be like, oh she’s exhibiting this characteristic or behaviour bc she’s bipolar, or look at how I am and be like, that’s her bipolar, bc it’s not, it’s still all, me. With the exception in this perhaps of sadness for no reason and lack of energy or ability to think clearly or much at all. But even then? Idk.
Any advice? Similar experiences? How you got through it? I've only been diagnosed 18 months or so.
thanks in advance 🙂
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