Blessed with BIPOLAR?

For me, I can see how God used it. To my somewhat atheist father, he had no God to comfort him, a very sad problem in his life. At least he had meds to help him much of the time.

I am glad you have a supportive family, and that you have a relationship with God. Might I ask why you are bringing this up on line?

I posted it in the religion forum. I’d like to show people who have bipolar and their families that there is hope. And I admit to a self-serving desire to see what interest there would be in this topic.

Bi-polar is not always simply inherited — it is predatory. Some people drag it to themselves by unresolved moral confusions. Within the latency for it, there are strengths — but once the body’s chemistry is into it — it is no blessing. It is a difficulty, a sickness.

While at a deep level EVERYTHING is a special unique blessing, at everyday levels, and even ones not-so-everyday, there is no blessing in it.

What this means is it something a person MUST deal with, or those around him deal with. Likely you know this, having been through it.

James Otis — a man whose Mass. Bill of Rights contributed to ours today, was bipolar. In his manic phase it took a whole village to settle him down — they locked him in a garret until the mania went away and he became socially fit.

Bi-polar is not a blessing.

A man who claims to a place of argument like FR to declare he has conquered his bi-polar is likely swinging into mania. For in the mania the manic seek the rush of challenge. JMO.

And for the record I have known more than one bi-polar person, I know there are different levels, not all swing into high mania. Some linger in depression, some have a long cycle, some short.

In all cases quietude is a healthy treatment. FR is many things. But it is NOT a place of quietude.

To all who have expressed doubt about the possibility of being BLESSED with BIPOLAR, I suggest Dr. Ronald Fieve’s book, “Bipolar II,” regarding what he calls ‘beneficial bipolar.’ He wrote the book “Moodswing” in 1975 and pioneered the use of lithium in treating manic-depresssion. His practice and research support my contention that bipolar can be a blessing.

Dr. Ronald Fieve, M.D.
Bipolar II: Enhance Your Highs, Boost Your Creativity, and Escape the Cycles of Recurrent Depression—The Essential Guide to Recognize and Treat the Mood Swings of This Increasingly Common Disorder by Ronald R. Fieve M.D. (Hardcover - Oct 3, 2006)

To all who have expressed doubt about the possibility of being BLESSED with BIPOLAR, I suggest Dr. Ronald Fieve’s book, “Bipolar II,” regarding what he calls ‘beneficial bipolar.’ He wrote the book “Moodswing” in 1975 and pioneered the use of lithium in treating manic-depresssion. His practice and research support my contention that bipolar has been a blessing to me.

Dr. Ronald Fieve, M.D.
Bipolar II: Enhance Your Highs, Boost Your Creativity, and Escape the Cycles of Recurrent Depression—The Essential Guide to Recognize and Treat the Mood Swings of This Increasingly Common Disorder by Ronald R. Fieve M.D. (Hardcover - Oct 3, 2006)