The Psychology/Physiology of Polarity

[dawnkeyfromuranus]

Something happened that got me spiraling off into something that might be profound for me.

The last few days I have had coccyx pain, but not been particularly concerned about it. Then something weird surfaced: outer ear (pinna, actually) pain. It was so annoying and odd I decided to Googled, and I was stunned by what I found.

Apparently there is some connection between coccyx and ear. The poster went to give gallbladder trouble and shoulder pain as an example. (an example of "referred pain")

So I got to thinking about referred pain, and about life and how this is imitated in other ways, and found a book on Amazon called Polarity Management (of course I cannot read at length so it eludes me )

Also I got to thinking how this ties in with yin/yang and all manner of things that I won't go into here. I also started to wonder, on a creepy holistic sort of way, about BiPolar representing something else, and possibly being heal-able.

I realize this is all the subject of a library of books, but I knew if I mentioned it on Yahoo all the stupidheads would come arunnin (more polarity!) so I thought I'd run it up the flagpole here.

What I want is stream of consciousness type thoughts and such, whatever comes to mind that might be related to the subject. There isn't a trick question hidden inside that needs to be answered.

Also I may be spiking, so keep in mind my delusional/egotistical bitey nature.

Also keep in mind that sometimes I can't see the nose on my face but can hear Whoville, so be kind.
kthxbai

/polarity!

[philipkduck]

I have heard of referred pain. It's like when something which is a pain in the arse gives you a headache.
You may have a point about bipolar being some kind of referred thing, certainly a symptom of something else.

Something much worse and even more incurable



(Sorry, I couldn't resist that.)
I am sure that from a psychoanalytic viewpoint it could be seen that way - "How do you FEEL about your bipolar .... what does your bipolar really MEAN ... what does it really stand for ?
But life's too short for that malarkey and it doesn't often help anyone but the therapist. Without going too deep, I think you may be right, but i have no answers. I'll have a think and see what other people say.

[StormInateacup]

Apr 14, 2012 5:30:09 GMT -5 dawnkeyfromuranus said:

Something happened that got me spiraling off into something that might be profound for me.

The last few days I have had coccyx pain, but not been particularly concerned about it. Then something weird surfaced: outer ear (pinna, actually) pain. It was so annoying and odd I decided to Googled, and I was stunned by what I found.

Apparently there is some connection between coccyx and ear. The poster went to give gallbladder trouble and shoulder pain as an example. (an example of "referred pain")

So I got to thinking about referred pain, and about life and how this is imitated in other ways, and found a book on Amazon called Polarity Management (of course I cannot read at length so it eludes me )

Also I got to thinking how this ties in with yin/yang and all manner of things that I won't go into here. I also started to wonder, on a creepy holistic sort of way, about BiPolar representing something else, and possibly being heal-able.

I realize this is all the subject of a library of books, but I knew if I mentioned it on Yahoo all the stupidheads would come arunnin (more polarity!) so I thought I'd run it up the flagpole here.

What I want is stream of consciousness type thoughts and such, whatever comes to mind that might be related to the subject. There isn't a trick question hidden inside that needs to be answered.

Also I may be spiking, so keep in mind my delusional/egotistical bitey nature.

Also keep in mind that sometimes I can't see the nose on my face but can hear Whoville, so be kind.
kthxbai

/polarity!

I've always wondered in a creepy wholistic sort of way about BiPolar too. I have an inherent distrust of psychiatry, having seen far too much of it up close on my BiPolar mum and Gran and then further from that having spent three years doing an honours in Philosophy, with a major concentration on Philosophy of Mental Illness.


In short I've read far too much RD Laing and studied too long the responses of other societies to mental illness to believe that Western Pharma and Medicine have any kind of real idea what they're dealing with when they look at mental illness.

In traditional native American, Australian Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and many other tribal societies the people we deem mentally ill are regarded as visionaries. Feted and honoured for their insights. Taken into Counsel on great issues such as war; consulted on issues of justice and custom.

Such people are not expected to take part in the daily duties of any ordinary tribal member. No Hunter/Gatherer functions for them. They are given a special rank in the society and the value they have to it is seen in terms not of the practical things they produce, but their unique manner of looking at the world. Their advice, their what we call "delusions" are, in these communities seen as a source of great wisdom. A means of finding solutions to large, perplexing practically and morally vexatious questions.

When you take a BiPolar person in a modern industrialised nation and try to make them fir neatly into the holes carved out for the citizenry in such societies, do they appear massively dysfunctional?

my fucking oath they do. They're not fitted for filling in forms, or assembling cars or teaching little kiddies the alphabet. they don't empt y bed pans well, they don't balance accounts all that effectively and they sure as shit don't make great long distance lorry drivers.

We have no place for vision in our structured, manufactured fake value system societies. Vision does not contribute in a direct and easily measured way to the Gross Domestic Product and therefore it is deemed worthless.

Thus we medicate the fuck out of any who appear to have the propensity to see into and make deductions about those dimensions which elude so many of us.

I know you have a few issues reading a lot , but the blog is really very approachable and you might like to dip into this book too.

www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415774727/

christianperring.blogspot.com.au/2008/12/philosophy-of-mental-illness-whats-new.html

(((Kaffy)))

How often have I told you I wish I could think of things and see situations and people from the same angles as you do?

[admin]

I think I can see where you are coming from. When I discovered I had Fibromyalgia it seemed like a weakness to me and that I should be able to do something about it. Guess what? Some of us just have things that we have to learn to live with. The lucky ones are able to see the humor and simply try to fit their life around such things.

No, I know it isn't easy and am not trying to demean it at all, what you have can be very difficult to live with.