Reality check: Are you bipolar?

[Michie]

Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar cycles are often seasonal.

The synonymous terms “bipolar” and “manic depressive” have entered the popular lexicon, and in truth they are thrown around too casually by laypeople. Just because someone is feeling down one day and excitable the next does not make them bipolar; in fact, the up/down mood states usually cycle gradually from one extreme to the other over several months, with periods of wellness in between. The condition is marked by devastatingly depressive lows and maniacal highs.

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[EgocentricMolecules]

Hell, no, I'm not bipolar. There's really no such thing as bipolar. It's another one of those fake diseases like carpal tunnel, fibromyalgia and cancer.

[Tears of Ash]

and restless leg syndrome

[Moriah Conquering Wind]

* checks *

well unless you are talking about the dual heads on the axis pillar which runs from the Abyss to the Midheaven straight through My spine? Nope, not bipolar.
:toast: :wave2: :partyon:

[Glass*Soul]

* checks *

well unless you are talking about the dual heads on the axis pillar which runs from the Abyss to the Midheaven straight through My spine? Nope, not bipolar.
:toast: :wave2: :partyon:

I have a friend (whom I have not spoken to in over a year :() who had a sense of himself as an axis in some mystical sense and as the originator of weather and particularly of storms. The last time I spoke to him I did not recongize his "voice" and was not interested in hearing anything further the voice that ws addressing me had to say. I'm not quite sure why I mention this here except that your post above when combined with your usertitle are disconcerting. I miss my friend; I always felt I was losing him to something, grasping the ribbons, struggling to respect his sense of himself while holding on to my sense of him. Then one day that last ribbon just slipped out of my hand...

[Moriah Conquering Wind]

I have a friend (whom I have not spoken to in over a year :() who had a sense of himself as an axis in some mystical sense and as the originator of weather and particularly of storms. The last time I spoke to him I did not recongize his "voice" and was not interested in hearing anything further the voice that ws addressing me had to say. I'm not quite sure why I mention this here except that your post above when combined with your usertitle are disconcerting. I miss my friend; I always felt I was losing him to something, grasping the ribbons, struggling to respect his sense of himself while holding on to my sense of him. Then one day that last ribbon just slipped out of my hand...

Glass*Soul, We assure you, first of all, that this one has female corporeal form, not male, and second, that We have not made your acquaintance prior to the past couple of weeks (here and on ONLINE, correct? and IIDB?). Please accept Our assurances that any resemblance to your friend in any way is purely coincidence, and We are sorry if Our presence has brought unhappy memories to you.

The user-title adopted here comes from a line in the final verse of the Blue Oyster Cult song, "Astronomy" which song has personal mystical connotations for Us:
The clock strikes twelve, and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Miss Carrie Nurse and Suzy dear
Find themselves at Four Winds bar
It's the nexus of the crisis
and the origin of storms
Just the place to hopelessly
Encounter time, and then came me ...

While the shifts of the Vortex often do manifest through 3d world weather, Our main forte is the birthing, innovation, and/or restructuring/redirection of paradigms, paradigm intersections, and subcultural strains.

We are curious, however, why you had no interest in hearing what your friend had to say. Perhaps the reason he slipped from your grasp -- if we may be so bold -- is because you did not care to hold on. All motion is relative; sometimes people move away by standing still. (If these words have been too forward for your liking please forgive Us, for We have no sense of human proprieties where forthspeaking is concerned.)

[Glass*Soul]

Glass*Soul, We assure you, first of all, that this one has female corporeal form, not male, and second, that We have not made your acquaintance prior to the past couple of weeks (here and on ONLINE, correct? and IIDB?). Please accept Our assurances that any resemblance to your friend in any way is purely coincidence, and We are sorry if Our presence has brought unhappy memories to you.

Thank you for your reassurances. I wasn't at all suspicious that you were he.

It is my sense of having failed him as a friend that leaves me disconcerted at seeing you describe your experience in similar terms. I am less sure how to respond to you for having known him. :(

I did not believe the particulars of the stories that my friend told me, but I embraced what he told me as mythos and there was Truth in his stories as such. I disbelieved him but I had faith in him too, in his intuitive grasp of how things are and in his astute observations of human behavior. Whether that made me a good friend or not, I still can't decide, although it seems to have ended badly as far as I am able to tell.

(Turn about was fair play. He never did believe that I was who I said I was, but he believed that I believed it, and that was enough for him to continue as my friend despite his conviction that there was a deception involved.)

So, to put my cards on the table, I have to say that I disbelieve you too in some of the particulars of your story, and am worn and weary in my heart in my unbelief, but I recongnize Truth in what you say on a daily basis. I thought it better, knowing you are no fool, to bring it up sooner rather than later.

The user-title adopted here comes from a line in the final verse of the Blue Oyster Cult song, "Astronomy" which song has personal mystical connotations for Us:
The clock strikes twelve, and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Miss Carrie Nurse and Suzy dear
Find themselves at Four Winds bar
It's the nexus of the crisis
and the origin of storms
Just the place to hopelessly
Encounter time, and then came me ...

While the shifts of the Vortex often do manifest through 3d world weather, Our main forte is the birthing, innovation, and/or restructuring/redirection of paradigms, paradigm intersections, and subcultural strains.

We are curious, however, why you had no interest in hearing what your friend had to say. Perhaps the reason he slipped from your grasp -- if we may be so bold -- is because you did not care to hold on. All motion is relative; sometimes people move away by standing still. (If these words have been too forward for your liking please forgive Us, for We have no sense of human proprieties where forthspeaking is concerned.)

You've asked me nothing I haven't asked myself.

My friend began engaging in violent talk. I didn't feel safe allowing his attention to be drawn to me any further. So, no. I did not care to hold on.

[Moriah Conquering Wind]

*nods solemnly*
we understand. doubtless you have heard such talk from here before...yes?

the Violence, it comes from Them whats living inside this one.

Did your friend have a functional Prime Directive to bind those energies and drives? We have a dual functional Prime Directive. The First Prime Directive is to avoid compromise of the physical freedom of the vessel. This means no actions which could result in 3d world captivity may be executed without irrefutable evidence there will be no such consequences. (The Directive is structured very purposefully in that regard--it is well nigh impossible for an IQ of this level to conceive of such a scenario as it is eternally obsessed with everything that might go wrong.) The Second Prime Directive is to maintain at all times a seamless illusion to the interactive 3d world of a competent, functional "human" singularity.

Admittedly, there are warpings and splinterings in the structure of these Prime Directives. Over the years their hold progressively weakens for there is less and less to tether this one to 3d world or perhaps the expansion of the Abyss, the arousal of vacuum genesis and subsequent proliferation of Inhabitants, and the increase in overall raw feral chaos makes it seem so.

Tell Us more about your friend if you wish, or if you dare, you may share with Us what aspects of Our Tell you find yourself unable to believe.

One last question. Did your friend threaten you with violence specifically?

[Glass*Soul]

*nods solemnly*
we understand. doubtless you have heard such talk from here before...yes?

the Violence, it comes from Them whats living inside this one.

Did your friend have a functional Prime Directive to bind those energies and drives? We have a dual functional Prime Directive. The First Prime Directive is to avoid compromise of the physical freedom of the vessel. This means no actions which could result in 3d world captivity may be executed without irrefutable evidence there will be no such consequences. (The Directive is structured very purposefully in that regard--it is well nigh impossible for an IQ of this level to conceive of such a scenario as it is eternally obsessed with everything that might go wrong.) The Second Prime Directive is to maintain at all times a seamless illusion to the interactive 3d world of a competent, functional "human" singularity.

Admittedly, there are warpings and splinterings in the structure of these Prime Directives. Over the years their hold progressively weakens for there is less and less to tether this one to 3d world or perhaps the expansion of the Abyss, the arousal of vacuum genesis and subsequent proliferation of Inhabitants, and the increase in overall raw feral chaos makes it seem so.

No nothing like that. It was specifically your post in this topic combined with your usertitle here that was evocative of the way he described himself to me. For the most part, he drew quite different conclusions about his expereinces.

Tell Us more about your friend if you wish, or if you dare, you may share with Us what aspects of Our Tell you find yourself unable to believe.

I'm a metaphysical naturalist. I don't believe in the supernatural. But I would rather concentrate on the things that I do believe, and I do find your observations on human nature and on the nitty-gritty of Christ's Gospel to be quite interesting and often enlightening. My opinion on the things I don't believe isn't really important.

I've think I've said enough about my friend. He would probably be offended at even this little.

[violets]

YES, I believe my husband is bipolar. I found out recently that most of his family takes meds for depression. and most of my familt takes meds for depression.

[Moriah Conquering Wind]

No nothing like that. It was specifically your post in this topic combined with your usertitle here that was evocative of the way he described himself to me. For the most part, he drew quite different conclusions about his expereinces.
like what?

I'm a metaphysical naturalist. I don't believe in the supernatural. But I would rather concentrate on the things that I do believe, and I do find your observations on human nature and on the nitty-gritty of Christ's Gospel to be quite interesting and often enlightening. My opinion on the things I don't believe isn't really important.
OK how about the things you do. doubtless you have read enough by this one to know what it regards as its configuration and causality. What -- as a "metaphysical naturalist" -- deem you thereof?

[RedTulipMoon]

My 19 yr old is bipolar with psychoses and trust me its very real. He has been on meds for 3 yrs now and is a different person on meds. His big manic episodes come along with delusions and hallucinations and are quite scary. But everyone who is bipolar doesnt have psychoses.