I just received a great blog comment, so I will answer it here!
\nJust curious, Julie\u2026.I could be wrong as I\u2019m just getting acquainted with you after hearing you speak recently, but in what I\u2019ve read so far in your website\/newsletter\/blog writing, there\u2019s a conspicuous absence of any sense of spiritual help for your bipolar issues. Is that a purposeful thing? Does faith of some kind have a place in the life of a bipolar person?<\/p>\n
WriteWoman<\/p>\n
Hi WW.<\/p>\n
This is a great question. I’ve done a few newsletters on it. I know that many people find huge comfort, support and information from their spiritual community. I also know that some, like msyelf are not as connected to a group spiritually.\u00a0 I can also say that I’m not super spiritual individually.\u00a0 This is not from choice. I used to be very spiritual – in that I believed that there was a force that watched out for us and wanted good in the world.
\nMy friends tend to have strong faith in this ‘power’ whether they are Christian, Hindu or more new age. I wish I were more like my friends! I think that over 13 years of constant depression have changed me in many ways. I had a few experiences that shook my beliefs! I do find that I’m getting back to my old self. As my bipolar gets better and better, I have more room for some kind of faith.<\/p>\n
Having spiritual friends helps me a lot- they tell me I will be more open like I used to be in the past!<\/p>\n
There is no question that the people I know with bipolar disorder are much more hopeful if they are spiritual.\u00a0 My friend Gayathri, who has been seriously depressed for most of her life meditates every day as does my friend Janea.\u00a0 My friend John D. regularly talks with what he calls God. He belives in Jesus as well- but doesn’t have a demonation. Others have a very private spirituality! Non of my friends are wiccan!<\/p>\n
In the states, it’s so common to hear people say that things happen for a reason. This leads to many questions for those of us who have bipolar! I do have a strong belief, though I am not sure I would call it spiritual- I belive that while things may not happen for a reason, I do feel that we can find meaning in all things that happen. Maybe that is my form of spirituality!<\/p>\n
Please feel free to add comments about your spirituality to this blog.\u00a0 I will ask my friends with bipolar disorder their views on spirituality and post them here!<\/p>\n
Thanks for your question,<\/p>\n
Julie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I just received a great blog comment, so I will answer it here! Just curious, Julie\u2026.I could be wrong as I\u2019m just getting acquainted with you after hearing you speak recently, but in what I\u2019ve read so far in your website\/newsletter\/blog writing, there\u2019s a conspicuous absence of any sense of spiritual help for your bipolar issues. Is that a purposeful thing? Does faith of some kind have a place in the life of a bipolar person?<\/p>\n
WriteWoman<\/p>\n
Hi WW.<\/p>\n
This is a great question. I’ve done a few newsletters on it. I know that many people find huge comfort, support and information from their spiritual community. I also know that some, like msyelf are not as connected to a group spiritually. I can also say that I’m not super spiritual individually. This is not from choice. I used to be very spiritual – in that I believed that there was a force that watched out [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12256,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/12256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}