My Bipolar Poll
The poll is actually a rhetorical question, if everyone received professional help everyone would be diagnosed with something, in my opinion, anyway.
My son went to my husband today and told him his friend, her mother is bipolar. It’s not something you hear about to often, kids speaking of their parents illness. My children speak of it openly to their friends as they have lived with it since conception and we are open and honest about it in this family.
I feel no shame, except at moments when I come out of one of my moods and realize then how my behaviour was and how it affected the people around me. Thank God I have family, friends, neighbours and past employers, whom I or my family are very open to speak about it.
They see my illness and how it changes me, but they also see I not only have accepted it but I try to utilize it to my benefit.
You see, as the monster comes out, there is a lessoned learned and signs to acknowledge. There is behaviour upon not only the bipolar person but also on the side of the person whom is on the other end of it. They themselves may also be with a mental disorder themselves, just undiagnosed or untreated. “For every action, has an equal and opposite reaction,” Newton’s law, even though Newton wasn’t speaking of human behaviour, we are, made of energy. It applies to the good days also, understanding not only bipolar but the science of the universe, how our actions as a human race causes reactions among us every minute of the day. How a smell, a voice the sound of a cuckoo clock will change our emotion that very minute, but not understanding how one thing lead to another in our daily life.
If we all learn to control our emotions as best as possible, by learning each day, and learning by not only the science and biology but the spiritual ways, as it’s our spiritual belonging that is different for each person, but common to help each other, helping ourselves first, acknowledging that most of us, if not all, have a mental disorder of some kind or another. There are not just mental disorders, but spiritual disorders, which could be counted as one in the same. I believe when a faith who claims they follow the scriptures would not cause undo harm physically or emotional to others, has a definite spiritual disorder. An example would be the recent news of a faith picketing a soldier’s funeral because of his sexual preference, this knowing is not something God himself has ever done, as we are to lead by example of choice, goodness and forgiveness, no matter if we are against it morally ourselves or not. We are to silently pray for those who we feel break the word of the scriptures from our own understanding, not scream out in unjust, with harmful words and actions, but to silently cry.
The soldier’s memory was desecrated by these so called Christian’s, so I pray for them, for the soldier’s family to find comfort in knowing their son is and will be remembered with honour, putting his life on the line so people like them can have their freedoms of speech, even if it is a mental or spiritual disorder.
