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Why Shame Feels Like the Deep Core of My Bipolar Disorder Experience

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We rarely talk about shame in the bipolar disorder community, but I’ve found it’s a common experience that connects me to so many others with this disorder.

To me, shame feels like the deep core of my bipolar experience. Psychosis, mania and paranoia can alter our thoughts and behavior and cause us to do and say socially unacceptable things. (I have learned that society has extremely limited boundaries about what is and what isn’t acceptable.) Or at the very least, things that aren’t typical for us and don’t represent who we really are.

I’ve been naked in public, I’ve been arrested for having a meltdown in the middle of a busy street. Paranoia has caused me to destroy my relationships with friends because I thought they were plotting

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