Brennan Wood
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sabrinacasale_therapy :
Hiii! ♥ Therapist here! This is actually well-documented clinically, so you’re not alone in this experience. When bipolar disorder stabilizes, people can experience identity grief, not because they miss the illness, but because their sense of self was formed inside mood extremes. The nervous system prefers what’s familiar, even if it was painful. Stability can feel quiet, unfamiliar, and disorienting before it feels safe. So the grief you’re experiencing doesn’t mean something’s wrong, it means the brain is learning how to build identity outside of chaos. This is also a similar phenomenon for people with CPTSD! I hope this was helpful♥ for anyone who resonates, please feel free to follow me! I post trauma/mental health content in the hopes of helping others feel less alone and better understand themselves ♥
2026-01-11 03:25:02
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Mary DiBernardo :
I am now stable after five years. I am embracing my new life my new stability. My brain is working again properly. I don’t miss being manic or clinically depressed. What I do miss is me and I’m glad she’s back.
2026-03-13 16:55:41
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Naomi :
I feel like my personality is stripped from me when I’m stable.
2026-01-10 22:32:52
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JustaGirl :
I love myself in a hypomania. and miss when when I'm not. I'm in hypomanias more months out of the year than not. so that is me.
2026-01-10 23:05:28
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✨Pixie_Morena✨ :
these bipolar medication help me a little, but i dont know who i am after taking those mood stabilizer, i feel like im just watching my own life and not feeling it, this is not me.
2026-02-06 09:05:47
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barbie 💖 :
Yep, that's true! I'm in remission rn and it seems kinda boring?...
2026-02-16 22:39:11
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whoisgamorraa :
I’m stable and questioning all my relationships now too. I never thought I’d do that.
2026-02-11 22:10:28
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Leif Blombäck :
I was feeling good but i knew i was sick
2026-01-14 16:59:18
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Stefanie Bacon :
I feel lost sometimes. The chaos at times was gone. Way to quiet
2026-01-11 23:16:02
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Salem :
Feeling this right now. I miss the energy I had. The top of the world feeling I had in mania. I miss the feeling confident. Now I just feel empty
2026-01-11 01:39:34
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Dizzy&Donnie :
I’m bored but more importantly (to me) I feel I am boring
2026-01-10 22:20:05
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monarca.contro.vento :
I fell that I don't feel anything, I know that I'm feeling better but not feeling the emotions like I used to know them. everything is foggy, not defined and not as intense so it doesn't feel legit to feel it, it's not real emotions to me. definitely not easy to me and not easy to explain to others
2026-01-11 07:12:46
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Manic Panic 🩷🧠 :
I only miss hypomanic me who suddenly understood the world. I miss hypomanic me thinking everything makes sense.
2026-01-10 20:51:29
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Bipolar Bear NZ :
its because we are literally not allowed to be ourselves
2026-01-12 10:49:00
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Choupette :
since I am stable on meds I feel that I lost my personality i am just going from day to another no life no dreams no ambitions just numb
2026-01-11 05:56:28
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TianaJackson123 :
The version everyone loved. I was so fun
2026-01-10 20:45:31
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Sierra💜🎀🔮 :
I miss the romanticized idea of self I have when I’m manic. Just the idea that the whole world makes sense and I’m here to witness and record it. I’m not. I’m here to live calmly, go to work, make dinner, have peace. It leaves a strange ache in my chest at times
2026-01-10 22:33:26
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MFB :
Thank you for that cause I thought I was just missing who I was before I made all the changes in my life even while being “better” ❤️
2026-01-18 18:42:07
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nexusfes :
I'm glad when my chaotic self goes into hibernation for a bit. Makes going to work way more bearable not having to constantly mask the chaos. It gets physically exhausting lol.
2026-01-11 16:56:12
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Jamie :
Coming down from a manic my whole body shook from shock for hours I felt so out of body and now so tired and drained
2026-01-11 05:23:31
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Les🦇🖤 :
I miss the confidence it brought me. It really did make me go out of my comfort zone, this is what made the people close to me think i changed my life around for the better. It made me feel normal.
2026-01-10 23:12:25
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꧁ ༺𝖨𝗓𝖺𝖻𝖾𝗅𝗅𝖺༻ ꧂ :
this !!
2026-01-10 20:52:28
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Dulce🇧🇿 :
this.😔
2026-01-10 21:24:03
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Line :
You are so right
2026-01-10 20:55:22
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mom_behindlens :
🖤🖤🖤
2026-01-10 20:54:50
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ceremony :
Brilliant summation Brennan
2026-01-10 23:10:56
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لُجّ 💉 :
I feel like i miss my hypomania
2026-02-01 07:00:04
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alex1_andrea :
Sometimes when I am struggling with low energy, it can last days a week, I can't help but think 'put yourself into a manic episode so you can have the energy to be fun and active with your child'. It would be so easy to just stop my medication for a while to feel like 'me' again, the me for 30 years of my life.
2026-03-13 20:21:06
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mariamoore1880 :
Very true!
2026-01-20 12:49:39
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Katie Eagen :
I still don't know how to navigate my entire life without being manic ....it's the most terrifying knowing what's next.
2026-01-21 09:55:37
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Amanda Alvanna :
I feel this
2026-01-22 17:27:16
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Rachel S :
This hits home for me!!! I’m currently in a meh state of mind and I HATE it. I’ve only recently accepted I am bipolar 1 and started taking meds again after a 3 year run of extreme ups and downs. This is so hard for me.
2026-01-24 20:20:14
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BrittNicole :
Been manic since MAY I’m LOSING MY MINDDDDD😩😩😩
2026-01-25 04:08:16
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I love toast :
I miss the energy, the getting shit done , the invincibility
2026-01-27 00:03:23
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👑 Princess Kimmy 👑 :
This is so true!!
2026-01-27 01:35:05
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mel_with_the_tattoos :
I’ve been on my current regimen for 12 years. I’m stable, but I lost 90% of my creativity. I mourn often.
2026-01-29 00:55:51
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_ivooon :
The worst for me is opposite - coming back to episodes, after being stable so long. I really don’t understand how people „love” this chaos. Almost year with completely new, calm life and then when I felt safe - it came back. Reality, that it will stay with you for entire life is terrifying.
2026-01-29 19:20:43
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juanjo :
we will always miss the chaos
2026-01-30 09:33:17
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Samela.Kania :
I feel so validated. I told my therapist, I'm boring, and she told me I'm stable. as nice as it is for my family, I miss me.
2026-02-01 00:00:15
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✨Pixie_Morena✨ :
I miss the old version of me, These medication change me
2026-02-02 10:12:37
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Coloring with An :
yessss I had been thinking for years, that my true self is hypomanic. Of course it wasn't. But my mom told me so 😅
2026-02-04 08:37:03
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stinareads📚 :
I’m waiting on the results on my gene sight testing now and even though I’m so excited to maybe finally feel like a functional human being for the first time in my life I have been wondering about this lol
2026-02-04 09:29:43
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donotsellyourselfshort :
I could work not being on medication. And without it I couldn’t work. Now years later I could do both
2026-02-19 04:03:58
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Chasity :
This!!!!
2026-02-09 21:01:23
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BP :
Dude I’m feeling that right now
2026-01-11 20:19:00
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_🖤⚡️Trisha🌪️🖤_❌13🎀 :
That’s what happens, yes thank you- I don’t think it’s anything anyone can ever understand except for the ones that have it
2026-01-10 21:35:40
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JLB Von Awesome :
my wife and I are learning aloy in the last few weeks.
2026-01-10 22:21:26
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Laura Lake :
That’s sad 😢
2026-01-10 22:48:37
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keekee :
💯💜😔
2026-01-10 22:49:24
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Molly :
I didn’t realize this was happening until now excuse me😭
2026-01-10 23:20:02
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Meg Leathorn :
Felt this in my soul.
2026-01-11 00:01:25
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