[Isis]

Someone sent this to me:


You are amazing. Many do not understand your bipolar nature; but
you can rest assured ...

The bipolar experience is no more than this:
A heroic soul born inhumanely sensitive,
desperately in need of true connection.

To you ... a touch is a blow, a misfortune is a tragedy,
a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a daydream is a
premonition, strictness is suffocation, and completion is death.

Add to your brutally sensitive soul the overwhelming need to
heal, create, and transform -- so that without the outpouring
of honesty, the creating of music or poetry or something of
meaning your very breath is cut off ...

You must create, must pour out your entire being in each and
every encounter. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency you do
not feel truly alive unless you are risking everything through
your divine expression.

Thank you for having the courage to create ... to transform ...
to be ... in a way other souls don't.

For without your courage and your light
the world would grow listless and dull
and the rest of us who are like you
would not have your courageous acts
to inspire our own.

Rock on,
Garret LoPorto
Author of The DaVinci Method
www.DaVinciMethod.com
Twitter: twitter.com/garretloporto

You are amazing. Many do not understand your bipolar nature; but
you can rest assured ...

The bipolar experience is no more than this:
A heroic soul born inhumanely sensitive,
desperately in need of true connection.

To you ... a touch is a blow, a misfortune is a tragedy,
a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a daydream is a
premonition, strictness is suffocation, and completion is death.

Add to your brutally sensitive soul the overwhelming need to
heal, create, and transform -- so that without the outpouring
of honesty, the creating of music or poetry or something of
meaning your very breath is cut off ...

You must create, must pour out your entire being in each and
every encounter. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency you do
not feel truly alive unless you are risking everything through
your divine expression.

Thank you for having the courage to create ... to transform ...
to be ... in a way other souls don't.

For without your courage and your light
the world would grow listless and dull
and the rest of us who are like you
would not have your courageous acts
to inspire our own.

Rock on,
Garret LoPorto
Author of The DaVinci Method
www.DaVinciMethod.com
Twitter: twitter.com/garretloporto

The above message by Garret LoPorto was inspired by Pearl
Buck 's poetry.

The above message by Garret LoPorto was inspired by Pearl
Buck 's poetry.

May be I am hardened and cynical, but I wonder where this person is coming from!
What do you think?

[RhiannonsMoon]

It's all very well for someone with an explanation for everything to be condescendingly magnanamous towards those with chronic depression & bipolar. They don't have to live it, they can just stand back and praise the people who go through it.

If there is any explanation other than the literal chemical imbalance, it is that we are sensitive and do find life either wonderful or woeful, rarely somewhere in between. And those who can make a profit off that will.

We have enough of a hard time trying to keep ourselves grounded without someone coming along and trying to give us another artificial high by thanking us for our suffering. All that does is create false martyrs and prima donnas.

Plant your feel firmly on the ground as much as possible and then experience from that point. Not from the point of view of someone who makes a squilion by convincing people to act as they tell them to (control freak)...

Just my 2cents worth...

Rhiannon