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EPISODE · Sep 4, 2021 · 2H 55M

Some indications from the Universe that people with lived experience want these bipolar perspectives

from Bipolar Inquiry · host Andrea

I've had some indications from the universe lately that perhaps more people like me want to have these types of reframing perspectives, conversations. I heard Brent seal share a poem and talk about what if people with mental illnesses have special powers, etc. And then I saw a gentleman in distress, who's also labeled. And he was talking about how he has a lot of empathy. And he feels things deeply. And that's one of the reasons why he was struggling. And he doesn't like how other people were being treated. So again, more empathy. And another individual I spoke with, shared that they no longer want to be on medication and are tapering off but also have to take steps in order to have a very stress free and gentle lifestyle for an extended period of time in order to make sure that successful. And they talked about reading about the side effects and experiencing side effects. And I also had a conversation where a person brought up the question, and my more than my label. And that just broke my heart, because we're so often forced to identify so strongly with our label that we lose touch with the other elements of ourselves. And there's infinite elements other than that label. And I feel that the label often misinterprets things. It'll call things symptoms of illness, when really, it could be a sign of transformation or a sign that a person has extreme empathy. And some of us acquire this high sensitivity. And then we're seeing and perceiving and feeling things that we've never felt before. And we don't understand that language. And I feel like because we don't understand what we're perceiving what we're seeing and what we're feeling. Which when it's empathy is actually a lot to do with the other, feeling what the other is feeling or sensing what they're feeling, or being able to read them so clearly that we're feeling what they're feeling. But when we don't know that this is what is happening, I feel like we get thoughts in our head that don't make sense or attack ourselves, and lead to things like depression, because when we're seeing something, and we're so used to identifying with our thoughts and our ego thought process, and that can be so called normal and healthy. Though I question that. If we start sensing more and more of the other, yet, we only know how to think in terms of ourselves. When we're sensing the pain, or the feelings, or more information of the other or the situation. extrapolating if we still are strongly identified with our ego thinking process, that ego thinking process can actually become more irrational or more in congruent because we're seeing things and feeling things of the other. But we only have the language of me. So when we see and experience and feel things of the other, but we only have the language of me. The language of me gets the volume turned up and it becomes more painful. So What I'm trying to say is if somebody is in pain and struggling and an empath can sense that, but they don't even know they're sensing that, or even if they do know they're sensing it, they feel powerless to be able to help that person or support that person, it's going to be turned into potentially thoughts about oneself attacking oneself. So if I see somebody in pain, I might think it's my fault. They're in pain, when really, I'm just feeling that they're in pain. And I feel so compassionate, and empathetic, that I don't know what to do about that. And the only thing I can do is turn that into a thought about myself to attack myself to sort of be congruent with the pain that I'm sensing. And then it's hard to not think that something is wrong with me that it's thinking these thoughts. And I'm not saying this is what happens for me, per se. But I've just been seeing this a little bit because in my effort to create different perspectives for myself and self dialog and different ways to think about it and see it and ponder it. I see that more when I see other people like me who have been labeled and pathologize. So

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