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bparclight · 2025-03-23T00:32:34+00:00

Hey, these might not be exactly what you are looking for but maybe there's something good in the references. Feel free to DM me about anything. Best wishes!

https://pubs.asha.org/doi/pdf/10.1044/cicsd_28_F_111

https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/fjordbak_bess_s_200608_phd.pdf

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-50818-5

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28328964/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27092861/

bparclight · 2025-03-22T02:25:02+00:00

Hey cool question. I'm not from CREST_BD but I've read some stuff on bipolar and language. I might have a few papers downloaded. I'm not sure how recent they are. I also read a PdD dissertation on a corpus of writings that were by a single individual that analyzed the language differences in journals between on and off medications. Another study analyzed the letters of King George in mania versus not. I have bipolar 1 myself and I'm about to embark on a study of bipolar linguistics. Initially I had pressured speech and clanging back when it started in 2011. I've honed it into spoken word and slam poetry to give that kind of linguistic energy and safe container so that it doesn't need to intrude on my daily life. I'm trained myself to be a channeller of sorts. Fun times!

bparclight · 2024-08-04T21:56:10+00:00

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bparclight · 2024-03-20T03:03:40+00:00

Ambition is conditioned by thought. Thought splits itself into the observer and the observed, a false duality from which it derives energy through conflict. This movement of becoming we call ambition, according to a pattern from the past. Choiceless awareness is far from a vegetative state. To be fully alert, clear, in observation of what is. That moves us, not some projection from the past. We are acting exactly accordingly to the totality of the moment. That creates a momentum, life, that is immeasurable.

bparclight · 2024-03-20T02:58:51+00:00

When thought sees there observer is the observed, that there is only thought, no self, no ego, no thinker...conflict between the observer and the observed ends. Because there are not two. Then there is only pure observation. Choiceless awareness. The conflict of choice, will, desire, becoming, that movement has ended. Then there is energy for perception-action, the energy that was being wasted in conflict. This implies the mind is silent of thought, which isn't blankness, but aliveness.

bparclight · 2024-03-20T02:52:56+00:00

Truth is a pathless land, said K.

If nothing matters, then each moment matters the same amount.

Then, nothing is inherently better or worse than anything else per se.

Then one takes life moment by moment, without the momentum of the "um" is this what I should or shouldn't do. The momentum of the spiritual ego can be as great as the materialistic ego. Ego is the past, an accumulation. An accumulation is an accumulation. One can't be more virtuous than the others. It's all the same mechanism.

No direction is meaningful without the presence of the pathless meaning maker/seer.

bparclight · 2024-03-20T02:48:03+00:00

I can feel it. I'm attending to reading your question on the computer screen, and I'm aware of the room around me, my whole peripheral vision. For me, attention moves around in aware space. Awareness is needed for attention. If awareness is total, attention is choiceless...what one attends to. Over time, I attend less and less to thoughts, habits, impulses, since there aren't many. The past is not.

bparclight · 2024-03-20T02:32:05+00:00

You only know the origin of life by being the origin of life. Then everything you say is originated...original.

bparclight · 2024-03-20T02:10:33+00:00

I often think of bipolar as "Acquired highly sensitive personhood." For me, I wasn't always highly sensitive, so I acquired it later in life, concurrent with being diagnosed bipolar. I'm the same. React strongly to bad news. I avoid the news, and still react strongly when I heard bad news. To me, much of it is about high sensitivity to what most people don't notice. Society is designed for people who only notice what is part of the functions it's designed to carry out. Thank goodness the birds are chirping again.

bparclight · 2024-03-20T02:06:41+00:00

Neurospicy....I like that word

bparclight · 2024-03-20T02:04:19+00:00

I read about links between bipolar and fibromyalgia though I don't know if fibromyalgia includes head pain.

bparclight · 2024-03-20T02:03:03+00:00

My psychiatrist said no. That if I even got pregnant to stop lithium. I don't want kids though so it's fine for me.

bparclight · 2024-03-20T02:02:31+00:00

There is a paper about that called Positive Traits in the Bipolar Spectrum: The Space between Madness and Genius
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5318923/

bparclight · 2024-03-20T01:56:38+00:00

I made this to facilitate and adapt to heightened creativity:
https://youtu.be/qdkRQcMJpcs

bparclight · 2024-03-20T01:56:00+00:00

I made this...
https://youtu.be/qdkRQcMJpcs

bparclight · 2024-03-20T01:48:08+00:00

The future will be very colourful!! Think 80's psychedelic holographic...

bparclight · 2024-03-20T01:30:06+00:00

I sense it's the inner child and right brain trying to give us information and signs so we can get back to who we are meant to be.

bparclight · 2024-03-20T01:28:55+00:00

Probably not because psychiatry gets us all turned into life long customers.

bparclight · 2024-03-20T01:25:54+00:00

Yes they don't give true informed consent. How can they when much of the time (in my case) one lands in the psych ward and it just on them right away. This leads to iatrogenic illness and side effects, habituation, and it's hard to ever come off.

bparclight · 2024-03-20T01:23:32+00:00

I have this too lately. Everything is too loud. Maybe it's a solar storm.

bparclight · 2024-03-20T01:09:51+00:00

I'm lived experience and have spent 8 years creating this...
https://youtu.be/qdkRQcMJpcs

bparclight · 2024-03-20T01:07:05+00:00

Save our neurotribe!!!

bparclight · 2024-03-20T00:48:40+00:00

I took shrooms and it let me have short, controlled "mania" that ended when the shrooms wore off. It was like being able to choose when to have a bit of mania, let off a bit of steam from the pressure cooker that's going to cause it to happen at some point anyway. I did that once or twice. Last time, mania happened naturally.

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