I heard the other day that studies showed that people suffering from bp are all intelligent above average. The degree of intelligence provides also a set of higher or more ressources available to the person compared to the norm. So i guess that could explain how i manage to keep a somewhat “normal” life despite my manic phases and still be able to work full time and have a couple of long term relationships. Resiliency is the key word. But it is costly in terms of energy spent at keeping myself together and it does not take away my feelings of being an imposteur at work and my fear of being judged as wierd, dangerous, abnormal… assuming being different is what i am working on. Assuming being highly traumatized, sensitive, empathic, insecure, creative, imaginative, intuitive, emotionnally intense and unstable but with a high hability to control myself through my determined strong, adaptative mind.