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Is there not a chance that you were feeling irritable towards your brother because he routinely irritates you and not because of your bipolar? Can we not have emotions and feelings that have nothing to do with the illness? You said it came out of the blue but if your brother routinely irritates you with this habit of his, then the irritation had a cause. Not every single emotion or feeling we have has to be "bipolar warped". At least, I do not want every one of them to be. I want to think somewhere I am human and normal and just have a bad day or bad moment without it being "my bipolar".
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Corey, I agree that not all our feelings need to be assigned to "bipolar warp," and it's true that my brother is often irritating and it's fine for me to express how I feel. But that day in particular, especially after I felt the same way toward Adrin, I knew that the irritation I was feeling had gone way beyond "normal" for me. Lynne
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