Living with Bipolar Disorder
Yet in terms of diagnosing things like this definitively, maybe one day it will be. But what I'm here to talk about is the feelings that come with living with mental health. There's a lot of visibility, awareness out there. Do you never know what someone is going through and they can suffer from a disease? Well, mental health problems are disease, and they cause as much pain emotionally and psychologically as something like diabetes or cancer or something like that for me
I'm gonna put the link to the video for those of you who've never seen that movie in this reply in the description
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 4:40
But, you know, I listened to a podcast a while back and it was about mental issues and how society tends to not think of them the same way they would a physical disability. Right. So if we see someone where their arm is missing amputated arm, we immediately recognize, oh, that's real, that's there we can see it versus when you have a mental disorder, people don't seem to view it the same way. It's a strange thing
Meranda Troutt
@MerTroutt · 2:42
I don't know if that makes any sense at all. Anyways, I'm not personally attacking what you were saying. Average Joe. I think that you come from a place of wanting to help, and I think that a lot of the time coming off as trying to censor somebody else annoys me. That's not what I'm trying to do. I'm just trying to relate and trying to put my voice out there as being a person who has a mental health disorder
Well, I appreciate the average Joe. I'm a little calmer now, but this is one of the reasons why I wanted to go to Swell instead of posting, like on Facebook or Twitter because text lacks the human compassion element, the inflection, the sincerity, the empathy. And I guess that's one of the reasons why I took this well for that purpose. Yeah
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 3:31
The last thing I just wanted to share in case it provides any kind of comfort feeling of connection is I literally was just talking about this in therapy today, how one of the most isolating experiences I've had as a human being, and I'm assuming others have this experience too, as human beings is what average Joe was saying about how much it can hurt when people are seeing you in one way and they're not really seeing what it actually feels like to be you or what's going on with you and how sometimes you maybe don't even want anyone to see that and at the same time you do because you don't want to feel alone with it, right?
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 3:46
And so you could be having a very difficult moment. We have no idea. And so we're not there to maybe respond in the way that we should. Not that I wasn't saying just put it out of your head and focus on something else. I wasn't saying that. I know you weren't really suggesting that you were just trying to expand, I guess, in a lot of ways, but more to what you were just saying
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
I feel like I'm connecting to people. I feel like people are giving me advice. I'm feeling like people care about me, and that means a lot. So I want to keep this conversation going. But for the moment, I just want to say thank you. You all really helped in your own way and offered me new things to think about and comfort. And that means a lot to me
Daniel Hastings
@dlhastings · 5:00
Hey, Mathis back. I loved your initial post here, and if you could have seen me listening to it, you would have seen me laughing, shaking my head in agreement. Just absolutely relating to everything you're were describing. I have bipolar. I've had it for a long time, and it can be extremely difficult. It can also be sort of invisible where you feel perfectly normal for long stretches of time
Daniel Hastings
@dlhastings · 0:37
Yeah got cut off, but anyway, I guess I could just quickly wrap up by saying massive stack, you know, keep on keeping on. And if you find yourself trying to think your way out of it too much, you know, my recommendation is just stop trying to think your way out of it. Just back off, give yourself a break and just wait for it to pass and I think it will pass. I it'll come back but it'll pass
Georgie Dee
@GeorgieDee · 3:39
Hey, massive stack, Georgie D here and everyone else that's commented on this. Swell. I think it's amazing to start conversations about mental health. I think it's a positive thing to share, and I agree with you. Audio is a much better, better platform than, say Facebook. I don't do Facebook for so many reasons. I prefer audio, it's more imaginative, it's more poetic. We bring part of our imagination to the conversation