![]() The Public Health Agency of Canada defines Laura’s condition as a disorder: “Bipolar disorder (formerly called manic-depression), is a bio-chemical condition that results in an imbalance of the neurotransmitters in the brain. I have a capacity to be empathetic because I have lived through some dark times and I have a capacity to be full of joy because certain times of the year I am hypomanic to the extreme and have amazing creativity, so there are positives to it.” There are certain skills that he has because of, or in spite of, his mental illness and I would say that’s so true for me. “It’s not all positive, but I don’t think it’s all negative either.There was a comic who framed it that he lived with a mental illness, but it’s also a mental skillness. “I don’t know where my mental illness begins or ends and where Laura begins and ends,” she said. In my mind, any illness - whether an infection, hay fever, cancer, a chemical imbalance of the brain - is a state of dis-ease, a blockage in flow that sets up a speed bump between someone and their optimal health. She asked me why I chose the word disease. I don’t have a disease that is something that needs to be removed from my body,” she explained. “The important thing is that people are people first, so I’m Laura, first and foremost, and I live with bipolar, I live with a mental illness, I’m not infected by bipolar. ![]()
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