Bipolar disorder and other mental issues || Acharya Prashant, at Kedarnath (2019)

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00:00My name is Tanmay, 2 years back I got diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and I have been medicated

00:20ever since and like when I was taking medicine for 8 months, so I felt that I am very much

00:26dependent on it, so I skipped them then I found a very stupid alternative which was

00:31smoking weed and then I got dependent on that, so then I started to get away from that

00:38but now I, like I, is there any way possible to get out of Bipolar Disorder or just to

00:46ignore that and live a normal life because it really does affect my work life and it

00:53really affects my personal life as well.

01:02What do you call as Bipolar Disorder?

01:05According to the doctor, what do I feel about it?

01:14According to you?

01:15I have like bifurcated views for everything and most of the time I lose the will to do

01:21something or on the other hand I am like confident enough to win the world, it's like

01:27that, it's like sometimes I feel I am a nobody and sometimes it's just that I am on the top

01:32of the world and there is too much excessive desire for sex as well, so like there are

01:39a few things involved, that's what I feel.

01:45Is this not the case with almost everybody in general?

01:57The degree of the disorder might vary but is this disorder fundamentally not present

02:17in everybody?

02:41Swinging perceptions of the self, is it not something that happens with everybody?

03:04Your case might be a more pronounced one, a more exaggerated one but what you are experiencing

03:27is the basic constitution of the mind, it lives in dualities, knows only dualities,

03:55that is what you call as the poles.

04:09Sitting on one pole you feel attracted to the other, there is always something else

04:23that is beckoning, there is always an alternative, there is always something more important,

04:44there is always an error, there is always a need to correct, there is always a need

04:59to change and become something or somebody else

05:15and if that is the basic constitution of the mind, then wouldn't it be great to firstly

05:40understand the mind itself, the working of the mind, its urges, its actions, its motives,

06:03its processes, its beginning and its end.

06:27Is there an end to the bipolarity that the mind lives in without

06:50going into the one that is not polar at all, the world is full of poles and dualities,

07:12the mind lives in dualities and all that is

07:37just too much upon the mind, wouldn't it be good to venture into the non-dual, wouldn't

08:02it be good to understand what this duality is really all about, I am not sure whether

08:22physical medications can do that, it doesn't seem like a problem with the physical brain,

08:42were there a problem with the physical brain which is the physical body, then probably

08:57a physical treatment would have worked.

09:17Is the problem really to do with some cell or some tissue that has gone wrong or is

09:39it something else, maybe what you are experiencing is an almost necessary part of being alive

09:58and hence every living being experiences that, we said almost necessary, therefore

10:08not compulsory, therefore it is possible to break out of that necessity, it is possible

10:32to be free of that polarity.

10:50There has to be determination to go into the root of the swings, desires and urges,

11:13there has to be determination to be free and well, there has to be a resolve to understand,

11:40there has to be a resolve to take the right medication and it is quite possible that the

12:01right medication need not be a pill.

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