Bipolar Inquiry

It would be nice to create enough context where people could completely avoid the medical system


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it would be nice to create enough context where people could completely avoid the medical system this context isn't necessarily for people who think they have a mental illness it's more for people who think they don't have a mental illness so in that way it's not actually talking about a medical problem I don't feel for myself like talking to myself in this way I've been talking about my medical problem I want to transition out of the medical model myself it would have been an amazing if six years ago they had a different context and I could have avoided it all together by understanding this process and therefore not fearing it so I don't think trans consciousness or neuro re-emergence is a medical problem and so if people are able to have that context because really it's something that's been medicalized that isn't necessarily medical it's a natural phenomenon it's been turned into what it is because of the way it's perceived and received and responded to reacted to it was responded to a reacted to it in a completely different way it would transform into something else even over the years before people were just kept in institutions and never released and thought that they could never live in the community and now most people are living in the community but they're medicated so to me it only makes sense that in however many years from now most people might be on medications for a short period of time and then not on anything so it'll be seen as something that can be completely recovered from and honestly recovered from does that saying it's an illness it's it is a transformation so the medication might help to slow down the process of transformation in the intensity of transformation but the process still has to be completed and integrated which might look like somebody completely redesigning and recreating their life and it's pretty difficult to redesign and recreate one's life if one is completely dulled out by a lot of medications and then basically told to live in your parents basement for the rest of your life whereas if it was received as a transformation one would be supported to create a new life as the process is unfolding in order for the process to integrate and ease up because one is moving towards that which the transformation is energetically pushing one through towards and there was another thing that guy said when he did that talk about the factors that are important one was genuineness and I like I can't be genuine working in the medical model because I don't see it that way so I can't be my genuine self and this is more my genuine self and I'm finding this easier to do which is to speak as my genuine self when I shared my story a while ago and I thought I did a really good job I never heard from the person that invited me to share and I thought it was strange because I thought that maybe it was an affirmation that they didn't like what I had to say not that I said anything too extreme but it just made me feel that way I guess or as I shared my story at this other thing and somebody emailed me and said that was good i want you to write an article about your experience there and i don't usually expect anyone to say anything when i share but the person who didn't say anything had a lot of opportunity to say something like so and i'm not saying that as bad i don't care it's more I'm saying that as perhaps that's not the right direction for me to go if I'm unable to share as my genuine self and I feel like maybe one day people won't be pathologized right away they'll be supported through their distress and then if a year later they're still struggling maybe then the trouble with a lot of this too is that the help is tied into the diagnosis and there's help like finding a job or getting an amount of money per month because one can't work at the present moment lots of different supports so the whole system of support would have to be redesigned because people would still even though they're not maybe mentally il

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Bipolar InquiryBy Andrea