What Is Mental Difference?

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🌈 Mental difference:

God-ordained variations in brain chemistry. The term rejects the stigma associated with mental illness and affirms the the dignity, worth, singularity, and giftedness of those who live with colors.

🎨 Colors

The spiritual, emotional, and physical ways in which mental difference manifest - most often during the chemical cataclysm that constitutes hypomanic and depressive episodes. Mental difference is often painful; yet colors confer gifts such as creativity, insight, empathy, and advent-garde thinking. Georgia O'Keefe and Vincent Van Gough painted stunning portraits. Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson, and Virginia Woolf penned exquisite poetry. Nina Simone and Theolonius Monk gave us beautiful music. Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill were transformational leaders and mathematics professor Dr. John Nash (A Beautiful Mind), and psychiatrist Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison are likewise gifted not in spite of, because - their difference. Dr. Jamison explores this in Touched With Fire: Manic Depressive Order and the Artistic Temperament.

Mommy is a Rainbow views bipolar disorder through the prism of colors. Mommy describes her persona as that of the incandescent rainbow, each color an emotion with its own vibrant character in order to explain bipolar disorder to her daughter

🦋 "I live with"

The phrase “I am _ ” suggests that one’s sole identity is bipolar.

The phrase “I live with _" conveys the truth that mental difference is one of many aspects of an individual’s identity and experience.

I live with bipolar disorder and vitiligo. Neither condition defines me.

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