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Transmigration

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I was very close to my father's sister (my aunt). She died in 1992 of cancer but she suffered from Bipolar at least her adult life (maybe earlier, not sure). I was 15 when she died. That is when my extreme mood problems began. it never occurred to me (or my immediate family) to seek help for my flailing moods -- deep depressions and periods of hyper-bliss and productivity. So I began to just live with it. My family is not one to run to a "head doctor" or "shrink" s they would call it. Things like mental illness have been a hush hush dirty secret thing in my family.

My aunt and I always functioned on a different level together. After she died and I began to experience the very things I witnessed her experiencing in life and now being diagnosed .... well I guess I am wondering about anyone's opinion of transmigration ....

Did my aunt in some way become a part of me? An unresolved issue (her illness that was never helped in any way till right before she died) to continue in me to seek resolution? I have heard her speaking to me many times, seeing her only fleetingly and rarely.

Just curious about anybody's opinions on this subject. I hardly consider myself this esoteric, but I have to wonder ...
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I have read enough...
Welcome to the bipolar family.
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My mother was bipolar and refused treatment. She only saw a psychiatrist once, never went back. She became very paranoid and psychotic towards the end of her life. She died of COPD and anorexia in 1998. I first saw her in myself in 1994 and began seeking help. It wasn't a Dr. telling me I was crazy, it was me trying to convince the dr. that I was crazy. Too bad I present too well. Didn't get psychiatric help until 1996. I don't know that my Mom lives on in me, I don't believe so. I am not paranoid or psychotic if only because I am medicated (I'll take that). I have not seen or heard her since she passed. I do believe in spirits, ghosts, whatever you want to call them. I was visited for months by my friend who had committed suicide. Finally I realized what was going on and I told him to be at peace and to be with his Dad in heaven (his father had previously died) and Mike stopped visiting me. I hope he is in peace now. Don't know much about transmigration though. Hope this helps.
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I had a wonderful father in-law who I deeply treasured,he was bipolar.Suffered terribly because he got sick when they knew very little about bipolar. He died of cancer in my home and I became his sole caregiver. Two years after he passed away I had my first psychotic slip.Wasn't diagnosed bipolar then, they thought I had what they called a" five day psychotic episode."
Seven years later had another, and was finally diagnosed bipolar.
I always believed that God let me experience his death, because he wanted to be sure, once I was diagnosed that I would prevail. And I have. I am very lucky, sick as I am, to have experienced first hand what he suffered, because he was the most maternal, loving, man I ever knew.God works in mysterious ways. Much peace.
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Our genetic makeups come from our family genes. BP is genetic. I think your love for your aunt has just got you thinking, what she passed to you, is what you both have the BP genes.
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