Note: Bipolar Perspectives of Bipolar Disorder by Someone with Bipolar is a guest post by Stuart Sanderson. If you found the post interesting and/or informational, feel free to read more from him on his blog here.
Someone else decided I had Bipolar from my behaviours and my decorum in life. It seems another great example of how we, or should I say modern society, create a framework, a system of explanation, and then force reality into this. The truth is squeezed into this framework regardless of the circumstances or if it fits in place neatly or not. Opinions come first, the truth comes second. The world is then a backward place. One where we are basing our understanding on falsified sudo-facts. False Prophets can only make false Prophecies.
I’ve written two books about the reality that I live in. It’s arguably a different one than what you are used to, but it’s my reality. It’s mine. And I’m having my reality distorted by drugs to become something that is apparently a reality that I should be experiencing. It’s like you having a drug that alters your perception and makes you act like a different person.
Drugs alter your psyche. An altered state of consciousness is what Im resided to for my entire life.
Imagine being away from your reality for your entire life because someone else decided that you were not experiencing reality as everyone else does? You are shaped into something that looks like you but isn’t actually really you.
How do you possibly get any sense of serenity when you’re being influenced by chemicals to create your perspective of the world and how to live in it?
Stuart Sanderson
The first one is a graphic, raw and detailed explanation about Bipolar Disorder from my own perspective. From inside the storm. This immediately shows that the underlying cause of misunderstanding is the fact that Bipolar is looked at in a different way than what is lived.
I have written a few books now about my experiences with Bipolar Disorder and how it affects my life. But the latest two are my best in terms of how they relay the message Im trying to convey. They are by no means the definitive explanation but they are the most accurate in my aptitude for the way I can present it.
This is a link to the book if you’re interested in reading it:
Objective Truth and Subjective Reality – My Life With Bipolar Disorder .pdfDownload
The second book is my attempt to explain the concept of Bipolar experience from the outside. From your perspective. This is based on my own presumption though as to how you are seeing the storm unfold, as it is a position that I have not been in. I also heavily used metaphor to describe the experiences and this is primarily because the description of experience is very different to what we are able to describe via language. Language is linear and static whereas Bipolar is constantly moving and evolving in its presence.
Once again, there is a link below to the book if you so wish to read more of the attempt at explaining how the illness impacts your life.
The Bipolar Mind – A Metaphorical Exploration.pdfDownload
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