Bipolar Pride

Bipolarity is a phenomenon that extends beyond but includes what psychiatrists call Bipolar Disorder.

Bipolar Disorder is a gift and a curse, as is bipolarity in general.

Bipolar Pride is not about having pride in the disorder itself, but in the underlying bipolarity that has a polarised mania-depression axis as one of its manifestations.

Bipolar Pride doesn’t mean you should indulge in or exacerbate the negative facets of Bipolar Disorder, eschew medication altogether or try to stay in a state of mania. It does, however, entail a rejection of any attempts to weed out genes or suppress the expression of genes that are associated with Bipolar Disorder. We need to reject eugenics. Bipolar DNA is responsible for a lot of the scientific and artistic breakthroughs that have improved life for humans over the past few thousand years.

Bipolar Pride also means advocating and working towards establishing a world in which people with more bipolarity than the rest of the population are accommodated by society and in which society can extract as much of our creativity as possible. Both Bipolarites and Neurotypicals will benefit.

Here’s an interesting discussion on the concept of Bipolar Pride among Bipolarites with varying opinions and understandings about what the concept would be.

Bipolarity definition link

Studies about the link between creativity and bipolarity:

Bipolar Disorder and the Creative Genius

Enhanced creativity in bipolar disorder patients: a controlled study

Creativity and mental illness

Temperamental commonalities and differences in euthymic mood disorder patients, creative controls, and healthy controls

Artistic creativity and bipolar mood disorder

Prominent people with bipolar disorder

Definition of Bipolarity as a Generalised Concept in Humans and Nature

Bipolarity is a fundamental phenomenon. It occurs in natural systems and is a feature of logic as currently apprehended by humankind.

The definition of bipolarity is the existence of an axis between two extreme states of a single quality upon which the poles are more prominently-inhabited by a single entity than the middle.

“Polarity” refers to single entities remaining constantly on one pole. For instance, a politically polarised society is one that comprises extremists on both poles.

A bipolarised object in chemistry could be for example unstable substances that switch from solid to gas with virtually no gradation in temperature.

An example of a bipolarised natural phenomenon could be sunlight as perceived by humans on planet Earth. For 95% of the time it’s either light or dark… twilight and sunrise are too brief for sunlight to constitute a steady-spectrum phenomenon.

Bipolarity is the underlying phenomenon in Bipolar Disorder. The bipolarity in people with Bipolar causes not just swings between mania and depression but gives bipolarites, in varying combinations and degrees, bipolarised character and physical traits. For example bipolarites are often capable of both greater physical weakness and strength than neurotypicals, of greater empathy and lack of empathy, of greater and lesser linguistic skill, extreme attraction to both genders etc.

While I’m at it I’ll give another neologism: “metabipolarity” in which the tendency to bipolarise can itself swing from none at all to extreme tendency. This is where I have to briefly mention dialectics and the fact that moderation is often a path to nowhere but bipolarision can lead from being and nothingness into “becoming”. I’ve raved about dialectical resolution before during manic episodes. It’s all here on this blog somewhere.

Some previous posts re this issue:

Rant about dialectics

Polarites

Polarites vs People on Extremes vs People in the Middle

A fault of mine (dialectics)

NSW Departments of Health and Housing and DOCS

Shellay Ward, Dean Shillingsworth, the newborn baby’s body found in a paddock next to the Pacific Highway in Belmont. If people are genuinely interested in the series of child protection/neglect issues that haven’t been dealt with adequately by the New South Wales Government’s agencies lately then here’s your list of people responsible:

Ministers for HEALTH
My opinion of Reba Meagher. April 2007-now

John Hatzistergos 2005-2007

Morris Iemma 2003-2005
He has his name on the plaque of the disgraceful St George Hospital PECC I stayed at from the time he was Health Minister.

Ministers for HOUSING
Matt Brown April 2007-now

Cherie Burton 2005-2007

Joe Tripodi Feb 2005 - Aug 2005

Carl Scully 2003-2005

Ministers for COMMUNITY SERVICES (DOCS)
Kevin Greene April 2007-now

Reba Meagher 2005-2007

Carmel Tebbutt 2003-2005

I don’t think people genuinely care though. I think they love it. I think it’s the combination of supposed innocence and darkness that gets people obsessed with child neglect/abuse in general. The more strident people are about child abuse, the more suspicious I get. It’s like pornography for them. Children aren’t innocent. They can put up with more pain than adults. The only things we should be concerned about are childhood trauma because it can shape people for the rest of their lives and children’s inability to be assertive and process information in a mature way. But for the last two issues you can extend the concern to adults who are emotionally or intellectually compromised in any significant way. If people cared about sexual abuse of children they would care about adults using other adults’ emotional vulnerability to extract sex. If anything these same people think the opposite; right wing scum condemn single mothers who usually end up pregnant because of emotional weakness/dependence towards men.

My own almost fatal experiences with the NSW Departments of Housing and Health.

Chuck Norris Presidential Election Endorsement of Mike Huckabee

Fuck Chuck Norris for endorsing Mike Huckabee. Check the political grid to see where he fits in. I will never watch a Norris movie again and hope that everyone else boycotts his products to punish him.