{"id":11616,"date":"2023-07-07T03:53:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T03:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mind.org.hk\/ambassador-story\/vishal-zh-hant\/vishals-poem-bipolar-lessons-zh-hant\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T18:10:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:10:46","slug":"vishals-poem-bipolar-lessons-zh-hant","status":"publish","type":"ambassador-story","link":"https:\/\/www.mind.org.hk\/zh-hant\/ambassador-story\/vishal-zh-hant\/vishals-poem-bipolar-lessons-zh-hant\/","title":{"rendered":"Vishal \u7684\u8a69 &#8211; Bipolar Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ambassador-story-content\">\n<div class=\"html-content\">My story isn\u2019t that interesting<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But<\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid,<\/p>\n<p>I guess it felt like I was louder than loud\u2019s meant to be,<\/p>\n<p>Told to pipe down despite not being in polite company,<\/p>\n<p>Tried on being a clown, clowning around\u2019s a productive use of misery,<\/p>\n<p>At least in my experience:<\/p>\n<p>Laugh or cry?<\/p>\n<p>Why not both, said the guy with bipolar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A little mental health joke there for ya.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My skin was paper thin, good for writing in,<\/p>\n<p>Prick me I\u2019ll scream, could be a real prick as well,<\/p>\n<p>Sadder than sad ought to be,<\/p>\n<p>Unable to do what for others might look easy<\/p>\n<p>So of course I felt weak and was labelled lazy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Potential: He has potential,<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what they told me,<\/p>\n<p>Potential but lazy, full of potential energy,<\/p>\n<p>Like if you wind a spring,<\/p>\n<p>Pull a thread until its about to snap,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you looked closely,<\/p>\n<p>You would see my back stayed hunched,<\/p>\n<p>Eyes on the floor, terrified all the time,<\/p>\n<p>Sure I was fat, convinced I was ugly,<\/p>\n<p>Though at most objectively chubby,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A kind teacher noticed some of this,<\/p>\n<p>Got me help, like a psychiatrist,<\/p>\n<p>Counsellor, psychologist, the only one that worked<\/p>\n<p>Was the nutritionist,<\/p>\n<p>The pills did not.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And if the medicine wasn\u2019t enough and I was still screwing up,<\/p>\n<p>Then logically it must have all been my fault.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So I was anorexic and misdiagnosed as depressed,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bipolar Lesson number 1:<\/p>\n<p>Your gut feeling is bullshit,<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t trust your emotions,<\/p>\n<p>Question your thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, the logical extension of this philosophy<\/p>\n<p>Means that often you will feel lost.<\/p>\n<p>We aren\u2019t friggin Vulcans after all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aside from my emotions<\/p>\n<p>My memories are flawed<\/p>\n<p>Because every time I have an episode it damages my brain,<\/p>\n<p>And so my memory deteriorates,<\/p>\n<p>And sometimes that scares the heck out of me,<\/p>\n<p>And so I tell myself those are mental battle scars from dealing with my disease<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Battle scars. That\u2019s what I said.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds a bit melodramatic, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But the truth is when I can\u2019t move,<\/p>\n<p>Because I\u2019m down in a hole in my head,<\/p>\n<p>I tell myself:<\/p>\n<p>Put on your shoes and go for a run<\/p>\n<p>Because endorphins are a hell of a weapon,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That I am a fighter and that I didn\u2019t give up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today at least.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Melodramatic maybe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever keeps you moving<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bipolar lesson number 2:<\/p>\n<p>If someone looks lonely, just do for them,<\/p>\n<p>What you wish someone should have done for you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And when I\u2019m pumped for the days,<\/p>\n<p>When the sky is clear,<\/p>\n<p>The time finally came,<\/p>\n<p>To chase my dreams,<\/p>\n<p>And I got my schedule planned out before me,<\/p>\n<p>And then one sentence.<\/p>\n<p>One stupid sentence someone says,<\/p>\n<p>Sends me crashing down,<\/p>\n<p>And something\u2019s screaming inside to recognize that I am so weak,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I tell myself:<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a fight. You gotta fight back.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t give up so easily.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But that is not what it looks like.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like I\u2019m doing nothing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My story isn\u2019t that unique.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like a lot of people like me it eventually came to a head<\/p>\n<p>For me it was when I was 26:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rock bottom, finally down for the count,<\/p>\n<p>Truth is I was ready to check out<\/p>\n<p>Leave the stage, adios<\/p>\n<p>Never have to age,<\/p>\n<p>Why would I want to,<\/p>\n<p>When I got 50 more years of this crap to look forward to,<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just maths in the end.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But for some reason, I found myself in front of a psychiatrist,<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in Kowloon,<\/p>\n<p>And I begged him to slow my mind down,<\/p>\n<p>Give me pills, anything because otherwise tomorrow,<\/p>\n<p>Well\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is a fictional recreation of that conversation:<\/p>\n<p>Because my memory sucks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nanda you are not depressed,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr doctor, man I am depressed, now give me the pills dude.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nanda you have a mood disorder:<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re bipolar type 2:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well how about that.<\/p>\n<p>So do I get pills?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They were not nice,<\/p>\n<p>And I didn\u2019t believe him at first,<\/p>\n<p>Or the next doctor either,<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t want to believe it was true,<\/p>\n<p>I mean you\u2019re telling me I\u2019m what\u2026crazy?<\/p>\n<p>My whole life,<\/p>\n<p>Throughout it all?<\/p>\n<p>But what he was also telling me:<\/p>\n<p>Was that it wasn\u2019t all my fault,<\/p>\n<p>And that can mean the world.<\/p>\n<p>When the whole time I\u2019d been labelled by myself and others<\/p>\n<p>As a failure, or at least lazy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bipolar lesson number 3:<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll call you lazy because it&#8217;s hard for you to do what they think looks easy<\/p>\n<p>But a black hole reflects no light and that they can&#8217;t see,<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re pulled on by a different kind of gravity<\/p>\n<p>Still I&#8217;ll be lying if I said it didn&#8217;t feel pretty shitty<\/p>\n<p>I am not a Zen Buddhist monk, a stoic center of calm.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m pretty sure Marcus Aurelius was not bipolar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No, we\u2019re trigger happy.<\/p>\n<p>One word leads to one thought leads to an emotional extreme,<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all about falling down,<\/p>\n<p>And yo-yoing back up,<\/p>\n<p>Inconsistency, nothing steady or sure,<\/p>\n<p>Storms that come out of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So yeah,<\/p>\n<p>I tell myself I\u2019m a freakin mind warrior.<\/p>\n<p>Shooting fire balls out my ass if needed.<\/p>\n<p>To deal with what I hear you think,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bipolar lesson number 4:<\/p>\n<p>Never be too sure you know what others think,<\/p>\n<p>You are not psychic despite feeling like it<\/p>\n<p>If you were you would understand that some people whilst thinking of you<\/p>\n<p>Touch themselves<\/p>\n<p>And ain\u2019t that a comfort<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Along side that, I worship at the temple of hope.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And other people don\u2019t understand what it\u2019s like,<\/p>\n<p>To live that kind of life,<\/p>\n<p>Because this is my life,<\/p>\n<p>Until I die,<\/p>\n<p>And it took me awhile to accept that,<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s better to accept than deny,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bipolar lesson number five:<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re gonna have to fight because<\/p>\n<p>They merely inherited the dark said Bane to Batman,<\/p>\n<p>Whereas you will be trained to recognise the light.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, in my head,<\/p>\n<p>I pretend that I am a fighter,<\/p>\n<p>And that this is a fight,<\/p>\n<p>Hell I could be a Jedi,<\/p>\n<p>Except they are way too calm am I right?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think there are bipolar Jedi,<\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019m saying is I do whatever it takes to make myself strong,<\/p>\n<p>I tell myself that the voices are demons,<\/p>\n<p>They aren\u2019t who I am,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And on a really bad day,<\/p>\n<p>I might go online to find the others with bipolar,<\/p>\n<p>People I\u2019ve never met,<\/p>\n<p>When everything in my head is telling me I\u2019m a mess,<\/p>\n<p>I go online<\/p>\n<p>And you know what these strangers said?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And I quote:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFight on\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFight the demons\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeep up the fight\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Because for some reason,<\/p>\n<p>We say we are fighting.<\/p>\n<p>We never agreed to it.<\/p>\n<p>Never had a bipolar world meeting,<\/p>\n<p>It would be hard to schedule that considering our mood swings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So I guess I\u2019m not some lone samurai in a dark forest,<\/p>\n<p>But a soldier on a battlefield,<\/p>\n<p>And one person\u2019s comment is a signal flare,<\/p>\n<p>Lighting up and revealing my comrades all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before the light fades.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah: bipolars are dramatic,<\/p>\n<p>Have you got that yet?<\/p>\n<p>We got that in spades.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So its a freakin mental war,<\/p>\n<p>That can go on for days,<\/p>\n<p>And meditation,<\/p>\n<p>Is your katana made out of adamantium,<\/p>\n<p>Exercise your plasma bazooka,<\/p>\n<p>Your green lantern ring? Proper sleep routines.<\/p>\n<p>You want to learn psychic martial arts?<\/p>\n<p>There are many forms:<\/p>\n<p>Panther: IE CBT<\/p>\n<p>Crane: That is to say gratitude journaling<\/p>\n<p>Iron fist: Mindfullness practice<\/p>\n<p>And lest I forget,<\/p>\n<p>Your tactical nuke,<\/p>\n<p>Take your meds for god sakes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We pretend to be fighters,<\/p>\n<p>And you know what?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I posit to you<\/p>\n<p>That maybe we are.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we are titans,<\/p>\n<p>Bench pressing mental weights people will never see,<\/p>\n<p>Contending with lies in our mind, sometimes for days on end,<\/p>\n<p>Enduring despite loneliness and isolation,<\/p>\n<p>Struggling against overreactions<\/p>\n<p>Sifting hallucination and delusion from reality,<\/p>\n<p>Believing beyond all belief,<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it takes to keep us going.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So yeah we\u2019re a rising phoenix\u2026<\/p>\n<p>A heavy weight taking hits\u2026<\/p>\n<p>A level 20 fighter thief in dungeons and dragons dealing crits\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh shit,<\/p>\n<p>Right:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bipolar lesson number 6:<\/p>\n<p>You might be manic.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than Jesus, Yeezus, or a genius<\/p>\n<p>But in the words of Douglas Adams:<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t panic,<\/p>\n<p>When you come crashing down and look around<\/p>\n<p>At all the wreckage and regret all the things you&#8217;ve done and said<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not our faults I promise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re just sick.<\/p>\n<p>And despite believing I\u2019m in the X-men sometimes,<\/p>\n<p>Many days it doesn\u2019t do the trick.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Believed I could feel it all when I was up,<\/p>\n<p>All the pain in the world,<\/p>\n<p>All the love,<\/p>\n<p>Sensitive as a landmine,<\/p>\n<p>About to go off,<\/p>\n<p>Mad splurges of productivity,<\/p>\n<p>How my mind could speed,<\/p>\n<p>And how nothing was ever enough.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Didn\u2019t even know who I was,<\/p>\n<p>Between the ups and downs,<\/p>\n<p>The medicine:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So bipolar lesson number 7:<\/p>\n<p>You are going to question who you are are<\/p>\n<p>Are you the guy who got into the fight last night<\/p>\n<p>And cried<\/p>\n<p>Confided that you wanted to die<\/p>\n<p>Pried a bit too much into someone else\u2019s business<\/p>\n<p>Lied when you felt the rush<\/p>\n<p>Waking up with someone else to the ruins of your life<\/p>\n<p>Where you will deny that you are a hollow shell<\/p>\n<p>To that I say: screw that crap!<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s my YouTube TikTok TED talk:<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called:<\/p>\n<p>You are your best self<\/p>\n<p>Nobody else.<\/p>\n<p>You are the version of you that takes care of yourself,<\/p>\n<p>You are the version of you that tries every day to get out of bed<\/p>\n<p>You are the one who said they&#8217;ll be there for their friends<\/p>\n<p>You are the one that tries to make do and do better,<\/p>\n<p>And rebuilds after the storm<\/p>\n<p>Despite the mental weather,<\/p>\n<p>You are your better angels not your inner demons,<\/p>\n<p>You are the one who doesn&#8217;t give up<\/p>\n<p>Contending with mental illness makes you mighty<\/p>\n<p>Not the other way around<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And the truth is I\u2019m one of the lucky ones.<\/p>\n<p>And my story really isn\u2019t that interesting.<\/p>\n<p>My meds work, for the most part,<\/p>\n<p>I could afford private therapy,<\/p>\n<p>I had the support of friends and family,<\/p>\n<p>By the grace of my luck, I get to survive, maybe even thrive,<\/p>\n<p>Or at least I get to try.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But not all of us who fight get to live that kind of life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like my brother who refuses to take his meds,<\/p>\n<p>Is in the throes of a psychotic episode,<\/p>\n<p>Where he thinks he is at war with Elon Musk,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Or my sister who hears angels and demons in her head,<\/p>\n<p>Jumped out of a moving taxi when she was depressed,<\/p>\n<p>Put on 20kg because of the meds,<\/p>\n<p>Has been unemployed ever since.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And the people around them can actually worsen their days,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bipolar lesson number 8:<\/p>\n<p>No matter how much they love you they still might not relate<\/p>\n<p>That can create a certain kind of loneliness<\/p>\n<p>You have try and remind yourself that they&#8217;re trying to help in their own way<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a love that&#8217;s worth keeping track of<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard, people sometimes don&#8217;t know what to do<\/p>\n<p>They aren\u2019t mental health professionals<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re just loving you as best they can<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re gonna have to be big enough to realise that counts for something<\/p>\n<p>Try to explain, educate<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Or just avoid the hell out of them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a viable strategy too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And if I tweaked their brains.<\/p>\n<p>And gave them the same condition,<\/p>\n<p>There is no guarantee they would do any better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They call it being touched with fire.<\/p>\n<p>The artist\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some people romanticise it,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But its really not that romantic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some people wake up at 3 am to clean,<\/p>\n<p>Spend way too much money<\/p>\n<p>Incapable of anything but playing video games<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We aren\u2019t all Vah Gohs and Kanyes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really not that romantic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You might ask me what to do,<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t edit my genes,<\/p>\n<p>Though if you can invent some better meds,<\/p>\n<p>By all means please go ahead,<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe a microchip inside my head,<\/p>\n<p>Whatever, I\u2019ll take it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But all I\u2019d ask is for you stay awhile, and listen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Just as you have been patient enough to do tonight \/ this evening)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It might sound trite,<\/p>\n<p>That love kindness and empathy matter,<\/p>\n<p>That love, kindness and empathy can change a life.<\/p>\n<p>That love is necessary, not just nice.<\/p>\n<p>And to a person in a desert,<\/p>\n<p>It can be the oasis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You never know what someone else is dealing with inside their minds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My bipolar bear buddies are some of the best people I know.<\/p>\n<p>And no name tag,<\/p>\n<p>No address, no CV or salary or certificate,<\/p>\n<p>No list of accomplishments will ever record their medals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My story may not be that interesting.<\/p>\n<p>But ours is.<\/p>\n<p>And not just people with bipolar,<\/p>\n<p>But anyone who struggles with mental illness,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They can totes pretend to be badass mind fighters too,<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to our battlefield,<\/p>\n<p>Design your own uniform.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure it looks cool.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And you may never be able to fight our battles for us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But you can stand by our side.<\/p>\n<p>That makes a huge difference.<\/p>\n<p>Supporting doesn\u2019t mean you have to solve it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just who we are.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And whatever illness you face<\/p>\n<p>If you are in the fight,<\/p>\n<p>If you constantly try,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s bipolar lesson number 9,<\/p>\n<p>10,<\/p>\n<p>11,<\/p>\n<p>12 and all the way to the end:<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s simply this:<\/p>\n<p>Dear friend,<\/p>\n<p>You are not alone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You aren\u2019t the only one.<\/p>\n<p>There are millions of us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are not weak or broken.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We just may not always be in the same room.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But if you are weird like me and imagine a cyberpunk dystopian battlefield,<\/p>\n<p>With psychedelic shape shifting demons,<\/p>\n<p>Or something like a little less extra<\/p>\n<p>Like you are just being pestered by some kind of squeaky annoying heckler,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you picture,<\/p>\n<p>Add to that image the truth:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That we are right there standing with 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