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.
I wonder about the same thing, but from the other perspective. I've always been, um... 'of certain intelligence', and I've been accused of this snobbery and obnoxiousness countless times. Even when I'm consciously putting myself down, or allowing room for the others' opinions, it is still misunderstood as me being self-absorbed, conceited, showing off, what have you.
It has got to be a total difference in language, I cannot think of anything else.
Interestingly, my aunt and my cousin are the most 'bipolar' in our family, and the two of them, (not 'of certain intelligence'), have repeatedly praised my modesty, my ability to speak at their level, and never put the other person down, or elevate myself. Go figure.
It has got to be a total difference in language, I cannot think of anything else.
Interestingly, my aunt and my cousin are the most 'bipolar' in our family, and the two of them, (not 'of certain intelligence'), have repeatedly praised my modesty, my ability to speak at their level, and never put the other person down, or elevate myself. Go figure.
I am howeever accountable for my actions.
I can come off as condescending.
However I am a fixer. I love to solve problems. And this means that I have been known to help where it isnt wanted.
That ruffles peaples feathers. I am on the doers comittee and dont undeerstand people who arent.
Type a personality slipps through sometimes.
I, too, am of better than average intelligence & when I was younger I was "little miss fix it" until I learned that allowing other people to maintain their dignity & self-esteem is more important, in the grand scheme of life, than dazzling everyone with my intelligence. Intelligence can take one a long way in life, but kindness & understanding are true intelligence. It takes a truly intelligent being to know when to keep silent.
Growing up a girl, a lot of the time for me, it was either prove that you actually, surprisingly, do have a brain, or you miss out on opportunities. I made it OK, I got a PhD, and I'm working in research at a big-ass university. This is just about the only position I've heard of that would accommodate my bipolar instabilities, and still pay what it does. I would not trade this for any amount of friends. I need my job.