is bipolar an illness? - Bipolar Disorder Message Board

vap2000 · 10-02-2009, 04:47 PM

one thing iv noticed on any site that covers the condition they call bipolar is nobody speaks about wot things they see and believe when suffering this illness, i got diagnosed with it nearly two years ago and the things that i could see all involved the dammage we wer doing to our inviroment and the inevitable destruction of our planets eco system i was seeing things i wouldnt normally see and tried hard to do something about it i saw sighns and puzzles that needed to be worked out and spent time working things out. after getting sectioned and treated with medication things still dont seem right the paranioa was justified. i stoped the medication shortly after starting it the medication really makes you ill and can have devestating effects on your organs includeing liver failure even coma. iv since studied this illness and found out while still seeing things and following the sighns that its a mutant gene through human brain evollution and is being studdied all over the world by scientists and one thing i found is that vitamin b12 can help sufferers the same vitamin that algea and plankton need to survive and they are the source of 98% of our oxygen suply. could it be that our genes have mutated and our brains evolved to try and survive a change in our planets inviroment. if the algea and planktons genes mutate and try to evolve through lack of vitamin b12 wot effect would it have on our planets oxygen supply. i followed the sighns and chased the links maybe i am dillusional or maybe i refuse to believe i have an illness one thing im sure of is that i can live with it now i understand it and will not take medication that takes away my individuallity and can have devestating effects on my health.

Wendy489 · 10-03-2009, 03:26 AM

I actually think a lot of people with different mental illnesses like Bipolar (which I have, among other things) are actually super sensitive to the goings on in the world. For me it is human suffering, but also environmental issues. I'm a keen follower of news and current affairs and when those are on the TV, radio, Internet or newpapaers, there are often times when I have to consciously disengage as I become ensconced in tragedy and then suddenly realise it's like I am connected to the TV etc physically. Sometimes when there are major world tradgedies I have to limit my media consumption. (I don't succeed very well I must admit.)

I don't know where over-sensitivity crosses over to paranoia - but either way, I think we need to be acutely aware of how much negative stuff - that we can't change right there in our loungeroom at that time - despite how much we suffer with others and the planet is coming in to us.

As to Vitamin B12 I have been blood tested for that and I am naturally sub-therapeuitc. Apparently if we don't have enough in our system it can affect our nervous system and of course that includes brain function (including both conitive and emotional functions). So I take B12 every single day. As to your thoughts an evolutinary interface, I'm not sure. Evolution is a process which happens over thousands, millions of generations and man (by man I mean you, me and everybody, especially in the "devloped world") has only really stuffed up the planet in the last two, max three centuries since the Industrial Revolution. I personally don't think we can evolve on a genetic basis that quick. Just my thoughts.

But get a blood test for B12 and if you need it, do what I do and take it every day.

Wendy

sfitz · 10-05-2009, 01:09 AM

I don't know about you, but one aspect of bipolar I really struggle with is the part where things seem more important than they really are. There is a word for it I am sure. It's not grandiose, because I'm not thinking about how imprtant *I* am. But I get so wrapped up in little things. Every piece of information seems like a sign. Every little thing becomes part of a bigger puzzle for me to put together and THEN I will have all the answers! I attach all this incredible meaning to things where there really isn't any. (But I only say, 'there really isn't any,' because that is what I know on some level, from what my therapists tell me. As far as I am concerned, to me it FEELS and seems as though they MUST be that important!!)

Anyway is this the same sort of thing for you with the envronment and the B12 stuff and whatever? Do you feel really driven by it and as though you are the only one who really understands it? Like maybe you have been placed on the earth to show people the answer? Yeah supposedly that's mania. *shrug* I only mention it because I know the feeling so well!

Although I do happen to think bipolar brains are somewhat superior, you know

We are more sensitive, we communicate better, we empathize better, and we are more creative. Mental illness be damned, we're just higher evolved!