Bi-Polar bear
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I learned to deal with myself after employing a couple of people who were pretty strongly affected by their particular sense of their condition. Not going to go into it too much, but now "I'm quite happy to be depressed" - the main thing (for me), is knowing how and when (and why) to 'snap'.
Also, giving up innapropriate use of drugs helped massively.
Not to say that harder drugs (again, for me) should go right out the window - I find the occasional psychedelic excursion (by myself, on my own terms) massively helpful to re-align perspective.
I've made myself content knowing that the things that make me happy aren't the things that make everyone I know happy - that I'm a bit different.
Truth is, when capitalised, it's that difference that makes me who I am. So regardless of how I feel, I have to accept that that is Just It. Helps me re-frame the purpose of existential angst.
Sometimes, anyway.