Being Well and Maintaining Stability

When bipolar, you do not have to always go in circles.

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Finding peace and calm comes after recognizing a problem that can be solved and delving into those solutions. Bipolar disorder comes with legendary ups and downs, often catastrophic, that envelopes our entire lived experience and overloads our emotions. Why it happens, nobody knows. Our moods and feelings don’t have a reasonable upper and lower limit. It is a rollercoaster out there.

I compare bipolar disorder to having a tantrum going on inside you and your inner child screaming for attention, and as you wrangle with her, it saps much of your life energy until you must give up and rest from exhaustion and fatigue, falling into despair around what you cannot control.

Here are a few things I do to get myself back on track:

1. I recognize emotional dysregulation. I let it flow past me, responding appropriately when necessary, informing friends and family about my condition, and then reaching a regulated state. Thanks to Here We Grow Acquire for Higher LLC for helping me recognize this. I go into my heart space, where the soul resides in the body, and connect with my higher self. I name the feeling's color, texture, and intensity and how it’s moving around my body to give it time, attention, and physical existence. Then…