What is bipolar disorder from a spiritual perpective?

[Charlotte]

@rounder apologies if you've seen the thread. Thought I'd tag you

[luckieluuke]

I saw a documentary about placebo effects. A guy ate his placebo pills to commit suicide. He was sent to the hospital where he almost died, the doctors had no idea why because there was nothing wrong with him physically...but he was dying. In the end he didn´t die fortunately but it´s crazy what power your mind can have over your body.

[AlwaysBeNice]

Part spiritual mental opening (causing more energy, shift in perspective, identity, feeling more powerful, more aware of synchronicity, subtle phenomena).

Part ego lashback (thinking it's more special than others, delusion/confusion, (emotional upheaval (-maybe not so much of an ego backlash perse)).

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It wouldn't be such a big deal, if people weren't fearmongered into the idea they now have a 'broken brain' and need to take meds and are just fucked.

There is obviously often a big stigma against anything spiritual or self empowering, and people that blind say someone is 'just really crazy/broken' are as much of the problem as the unbalanced experienced by someone.

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Though 'being grounded in reality', and having some common sense, is also not to be dis valued over some hyped mind that just got a whiff of spirituality.

What a spiritual aspirant should know is that

1. thoughts are just thoughts,

2. you cannot be crazy, you can only think or do crazy

3. Life/God is the Self, and it can never be an enemy or even an authority to you, it's you / a friend / teacher.

[Charlotte]

8 hours ago, rounder said:

prob gonna regret and end up deleting this post lol

Leave it exactly where it is Mr ❤️