B is for Bipolar.

sharing my mental health journey, my art/photography, my cats, and my life.

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“Haters gonna hate!” -Princess Tigerbelle

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Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (via philosophybits)

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50 Philosophical Questions

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1: Is it worse to fail at something or never attempt it in the first place?

2: If you could choose just one thing to change about the world, what would it be?

3: To what extent do you shape your own destiny, and how much is down to fate?

4: Does nature shape our personalities more than nurture?

5: Should people care more about doing the right thing, or doing things right?

6: How can people believe in truths without evidence?

7: Where is the line between insanity and creativity?

8: What is true happiness?

9: What things hold you back from doing the things that you really want to?

10: What makes you, you?

11: What is time?

12: Is mind or matter more real?

13: Do you make your own decisions, or let others make them for you?

14: What makes a good friend?

15: Why do people fear losing things that they do not even have yet?

16: Who defines good and evil?

17: What is the difference between living and being alive?

18: Is a “wrong” act okay if nobody ever knows about it?

19: Who decides what morality is?

20: How do you know that your experience of consciousness is the same as other people’s experience of consciousness?

21: What is true strength?

22: What is true love?

23: Is a family still relevant in the modern world?

24: Where do thoughts come from?

25: What is beauty?

26: How do you know your perceptions are real?

27: How much control do you have over your life?

28: What is freedom?

29: What is infinity?

30: What happens after we die?

31: What defines you?

32: Is it more important to be liked or respected?

33: Do we have a soul?

34: Where does the soul live?

35: How should people live their lives?

36: If lying is wrong, are white lies okay?

37: Is trust more important than love?

38: Is it easier to love or be loved?

39: Is it better to love and lose or never to love?

40: Do aliens exist?

41: The structure of DNA appears to be intelligently designed, what are the implications?

42: Is there a reason to life?

43: Is life all a dream?

44: When does consciousness begin?

45: Do dreams mean anything?

46: Can we have happiness without sadness?

47: How did the universe begin?

48: Is there a supreme power?

49: Do soulmates exist?

50: What is a normal person like?

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Toby was extremely helpful testing the lights today!!

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Treehouse

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Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When “I” is replaced by “WE”, illness becomes wellness.

Sharon L. Alder (via the-red-lotus-blog)

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[asking-jude]

the worst thing you could is tame the chaos in you. it’s like being told not to feel when you’re thrown in the fire.

r.m. drake (via asking-jude)

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I cannot stand the words “get over it.” All of us are under such pressure to put our problems in the past tense. Slow down. Don’t allow others to hurry your healing. It is a process, one that may take years, occasionally, even a lifetime — and that’s okay.

Beau Taplin (via asking-jude)

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eMoods: (an app for tracking bipolar moods) My review:

As a young individual living with bipolar disorder, I constantly look for tools to help me cope. When I first downloaded eMoods via suggestion of my mother, who heard about it through facebook or something, I was naturally very skeptical. I mean what can an app really do to help me? I tried it. I hated it- At first.  Having to remember to log my sleeping schedule, anxiety, elevated and/or depressed moods, and psychotic symptoms of each day on a scale from none, to mild, to severe... That in itself was exhausting. I didn’t like looking at my week and seeing how severely or mildly I was being, well me. Because I’ve not been just me without being bipolar or bipolar without being me. It looks like a really sad painting of dark and darker blues all over my calendar the weeks I felt like dying and others it’s a beautiful light and pale blue sky on the weeks I felt like flying. I slowly started to gain routine and habit for this simple little app on my phone. I thought one day about deleting it because “it really doesn’t do anything for me” or “it doesn’t really serve a purpose to me.” But I realized I was looking at it all wrong- I haven’t really learned to accept that I’ll always be this way, I probably never will, there has to be something I am missing, something my counselors are missing, and doctors haven’t discovered yet that will help me be “normal” without medication. It may sound silly, but I think I’ve actually just been searching for a cure in all of these “tools” that I find to help myself cope. So when I downloaded this app I had already subconsciously assigned it an unaccomplishable task. Really, this app doesn’t do much, it certainly hasn’t magically made me a normal person, I am still bipolar, but I can’t honestly say I haven’t changed because of it because I have. I’ve been studying each log I (remember to) make in this app to better understand my particular patterns of elevated and depressive mood and it has actually helped me feel more connected to what I am going through. I can almost sympathize with myself somedays instead of being harsh or negative I have learned how to be kind to myself. So, in conclusion, I guess you’d just have to really give this app a chance and try it before you make up your own mind about it. I can’t tell you it will help, or not help, or just take up space on your phone until you delete it, all I know is, I don’t want to delete anytime soon.

~Sincerely hope this helps someone.

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im a very hungry bean today

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yes.

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coffee is everything to me.

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on my first date with happiness, i decided i had enough of oversized black tshirts and loose black jeans so i threw on a yellow sundress, which i found after passing through my closet like a raging hurricane; as always, i was running late. on my first date with happiness, i decided i was going to let her fall in love with my natural self so i put down my concealer, mascara, lipstick and eyeliner. and i ornament myself with rings and necklaces, a spray of flowery, sweet perfume. on my first date with happiness, i decided i was going to let her in so i told her my everything, i was afraid, of course but i knew i would have to, at least, give her a chance to get to know me, i would have to give my tired self a chance to stop being a fucking liar. on my first date with happiness, i said: “hey, my name is sadness. but i want to learn to be happy again.” on my first date with happiness, i let a little bit of life reach my insides after a whole long time of having myself against myself.

on my first date with happiness. (via sunsetico)