Posted by Dinah on December 31, 2002, at 17:36:25
In reply to empower, posted by rayww on December 31, 2002, at 11:17:54
You haven't killed it, Ray. It's never been very robust, but it will live for as long as Dr. Bob wants it to, I suspect. :)
I hope it isn't terribly rude to ask, but you refer to being bipolar and having very large swings. Are you bipolar I or II? I'm cyclothymic myself, down there towards the end of the spectrum.
Are you on nothing but the Empower program now? No other psych drugs? And it's working well for you?
I don't particularly see my faith as tied into my illness. Although I do get attacks of scrupulousness due to my obsessive compulsive disorder. And probably also due to that disorder, I sometimes am overcome by a sense of my personal unworthiness and sinfulness. But I don't see those things as parts of my faith as much as I see them as parts of my illness. And the better parts of my faith I don't see as being connected to my illness. My faith seems to be of the warm calm type that is very centering. As I've already said, it almost seems more belief than faith. I don't reach the heights of feeling the Spirit the way some people do.
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