A Buddhist way through mental illness.

I have always been a terrible student, with below average grades, and, even until high school, all my notebooks have doodles all over the place. One may conclude that I’m unengaged or I have some type of attention disorder. Of course the right implication is that I’m not unengage, my psychiatrist suggests that I may have ADHD or a mild Autism Disorder, but my main diagnosis is Bipolar Disorder type 2. This diagnosis may sound catastrophic but as the Buddha says there’s a right and a wrong way to view things. And I believe all living things have to survive in their conditions. My bipolar disorder manifests from a mix of obsesion, creative power and constructive power, last time I was in distress and without diagnosis I created a technology to plot multidimensional surfaces. ...

2 min · Pedro E. Díaz