Bipolar Disorder Support Group
Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria, often accompanied by bouts of clinical depression. This is the place to talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, learn from others' experiences, and find support.

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Do any of you guys feel like in alot of ways you are still a child, I mean childlike....maybe even sometimes childish, but mostly child-like. I know there is all this talk these days about nurturing the "inner child" but i feel like my "inner child" is so alive, I'm like a wild stallian without any reigns...or alone in the ocean on a little dingy being blown around by a wild wind...I don't know, I have just always struggled with feeling so deeply, and being affected sooo much by this world, and often I am so crazily impulsive, like a little child without a caring adult to hold my hand and kindly pull me back and keep me safe from myself....and others...I think when I am faithfully on my medicine, I am so much more safer, and I am so much more stable, and I even feel more like a "grown up", or adult, which I am.
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I think the difference is that most people who talk about the "inner child" are referencing the neglected abused part of your upbringing prior to adulthood. Sounds to me that you are embracing your childlike nature and I pray you never lose that! I'm 43 and still behave childlike and free from worry, etc. I'm better off for it. No one could change it anyway. People who know me love it and those who don't may look at me like a fool but who the fuck cares? I say, what your opinion of me is none of my business!
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