Bipolar Advantage: Has Bipolar Made You a Better Person?

2014-03-02_7-56-38I ran across this intriguing post while surfing the world of bipolar blogs…. I would love to get comments and responses…

Maybe you agree, or disagree. Let me know – add a comment to this post or send me an email at peter@moodsurfing.com.

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I know what you may be thinking: she’s crazy to even suggest that bipolar disorder—or any other mental illness—could make me better. By definition, this is an illness … so that means it has made me worse, right?

You might say: bipolar disorder has prevented me from living the life I want to live. It’s knocked me on my ass, sent me spiraling into terrible highs and lows, jeopardized my relationships … how could any of these things be positive?

I used to feel the same way.

I thought my hospitalization, depressions, psychosis, medication—I thought all of this fell into the category of “the worst things that have ever happened to me.”

But fourteen years after my diagnosis, I’ve found relative stability. And I’ve managed to feel, much of the time, gratitude for this disease.

Why?

Because bipolar disorder has …

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