Bipolar Commons...

Hey,just from reading around and doing a bit of research i've noticed their seems to be come really common traits in a lot of people with bipolar. A lot of the people are very religious, follow an organised religion or believe in a geater being of some kind. i'm personally not religious at all, and i know it's a bit of a taboo subject, but do you think their is a reason why so many bipolar suffers turn to religion? I'm just curious.

Another thing that seems common is their creativity, a lot of people who write poems/novels perform music, paint art also suffer bipolar, do you think bipolar stems from the creativity or the creativity stems from bipolar, or is it just co incidence? I'm personally as creative as a stone, do any of you guys have skills or creative hobbies?

Also social class...the majority of people with bipolar seem to be middle class as opposed to working class, do you think their could be a reason behind that? I'm strictly working class,but i used to be lower middle class when i was a child , does this effect people's mood disorder at all? Anything else you guys tend to notice seems common? just from logging on and reading what people say.

shine,

you pose some interesting relationshipe.  many yrs ago i was working on a computer project for something that had never been achieved.  the operations directer called me into her offie and said, "warren, you're supposed to be creative.  find us a way to get this darn*d thing to work!"  i did.  maybe i am creative?

as far as class, i have a different take based upon paterns of behavior.  first, i want to make clear that i admit to differneces in afluence amoungst groups, i find the concept of "ciass distateful.  i believe that middle calss and upper class people are more kikely to acknowledge mental illness than those in the lower class.  in adition, these two groups generally have insurance or the affuence to have these problems treated. 

do any of you watch lou dobbs on cnn?  according to his research, this administration is waging, and winning, a war on the middle class.  someone in the middle class is more likely to end up in the lower class than in the upper class.  if dobbs is right, we may well see an epidenic of non-treated cases of bpd and pther mental illnesses.

warren

back,

i totally agree with you.  whilst we were living in england, we became interedted in "spiritual healing," or what in the us is called "the laying on of hands."  just for fun, there is an association of jewish healers in england, headqyartered, i believe, in kentish town.

anyway, when i was learning about spiritual healinh, i asked my teacher about using spiritual healing for a broken bone.  she told me that one should always use that which is most appropriate for the illnessd and that a dr could set the bone much more effectively and quickly than we could with spiritual healing.  she emphacised, however, that the healing process would be quicker and less painful if spiritual healing was used.  some studines backed her up on the last statement.

bp is both psychological and physical.  i believe that using all mehtods appropriate, including abiding faith in you god, will help you to live with and to eal with this disease.

warren