I really liked your article here since it illustrates that we have bipolar and a character beyond it with all that entails. At least, that is what I got out of it. I empathize with bipolar with psychosis. I too have to take an antipsychotic everyday to quell things. My thinking was not very sharp and my motivation was that of a slug. My doc thought it might be due to residual effects of the bipolar disorder. With enough antipsychotic in my regiment, we decided to try a modest amount of stimulants to get the cognition back on board. I must say, it has made a world of difference and has made my scientific research job seem more doable. Just an option your friend may want to ask his/her doctor about.
What I was struck by in reading this is the extent to which you appear to have figured out so many things at once.
You have detemined that each of these friends and associates has a different "plus" factor complicating his or her BPD; the exact nature of each factor; what each person needs to do in order to thrive; and whether each is optimally managing his or her "plus" factor. I doubt that each of these people's personal psychiatrists would be so bold as to claim to know so much.
Perhaps you are correct in your assessments, but you come across not so much as describing phenomena that can be generalized and put to use by your readers, but as engaging in extremely focused personal judgments of those to whom you are perhaps too close to write about objectively. In other words, these anecdotes are just that, and do not seem to be the sort of testimonials others can out to use.
Anyway, I think that it is hazardous to try to climb so far into the heads of other people even when they do not resonate emotionally with us, to say nothing of when they do, as in this post. Then again, maybe I am just "bipolar plus hypersensitive/defensive"...
That is all.
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Hi John...They say compliments are over-rated, and so I will refrain.
This piece gives me a lot of insight into the complexities of the human animal. You're right, we ALL have a "plus" or two to deal with in our lives, and we do the best we can to cope and understand. It ain't easy being bipolar.
And I must say that many of the "regulars" - the "normies" often have a plus or two to deal with in their lives as well. I observe people, I see indications of it all the time.
Sounds like you have a set of characters for friends. A good mix. Hope you have the chance to get together with them from time to time. If you want someone to shoot a video, I'm available.
Judy
Many thanks, Judy. We could develop a whole TV series from getting these people in one room, especially with all our "plus" qualities going.
"What a piece of work is man.....