The Bipolar Game Changer

This fresh new take on Bipolar 1 invites you to take control of your life, gamify your existence, and build your understanding of manic episodes and psychosis. No doubt you've heard of recovery, but this book focuses on "Re-Uncovery" or the process to look back and uncover the missing meaning that surfaced while in non-volitional extraordinary states. If you stop and imagine mania as the universes' attempt to gamify you and your life, that you're the main character and your life is up to you, then you can begin to unravel your unique truths. Instead of ignoring and oppressing intense experiences, you're invited to get curious, wonder, and participate in your unfoldment through the alchemy of your aware attention.

You'll discover many new facts that'll help you on your journey, including:


  • How to remember many thoughts and perspectives you had in mania and in metamania by reading about lenses and perspectives.
  • Seeing that mania is a natural process that is handled and looked upon unnaturally.
  • To stop apologizing for the experiences by being shamed by them.
  • To be in awe of bipolar and the strength it takes to live it.
  • How to feel less alone in some of your "out there" experiences and perspectives.
  • How to create safety and social reconnection by making sense of experience.
  • To acknowledge how mania affects how we live life moving forward. Managing the increased sensitivity and change in social views and values.
  • How to think of this process as a game, because games are fun.
  • To use this book to have a dialogue with yourself


In this book, you'll find answers you've been searching for, a new outlook on mania, and plenty of ways to reestablish control of your life.


"A wonderful personal exploration of the tremendous growth potential found within mysterious states of consciousness called mania and bipolar. Andrea Grey's courage to learn from her own suffering has illuminated new pathways out of antiquated medical reductionism. She brings us closer to the day bipolar, psychosis, and schizophrenia join homosexuality and are no longer pathologized as diseases, but welcomed as normal expressions of human diversity. I hope Andrea's book inspires many more like it: we need her vital perspective."


Will Hall, author of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs, cofounder of Hearing Voices Network USA, and author of Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness


"The wisdom within these pages, of the courage and hard graft it takes to own and hone your life as 'trans- conscious', is needed at this time in history like water in a drought."


Katie Mottram, Founder of the Emerging Proud campaign


If you're ready to take your power back and discover the meaning in mania, then don't hesitate. Scroll up and one click buy your copy now!

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The Bipolar Game Changer

This fresh new take on Bipolar 1 invites you to take control of your life, gamify your existence, and build your understanding of manic episodes and psychosis. No doubt you've heard of recovery, but this book focuses on "Re-Uncovery" or the process to look back and uncover the missing meaning that surfaced while in non-volitional extraordinary states. If you stop and imagine mania as the universes' attempt to gamify you and your life, that you're the main character and your life is up to you, then you can begin to unravel your unique truths. Instead of ignoring and oppressing intense experiences, you're invited to get curious, wonder, and participate in your unfoldment through the alchemy of your aware attention.

You'll discover many new facts that'll help you on your journey, including:


  • How to remember many thoughts and perspectives you had in mania and in metamania by reading about lenses and perspectives.
  • Seeing that mania is a natural process that is handled and looked upon unnaturally.
  • To stop apologizing for the experiences by being shamed by them.
  • To be in awe of bipolar and the strength it takes to live it.
  • How to feel less alone in some of your "out there" experiences and perspectives.
  • How to create safety and social reconnection by making sense of experience.
  • To acknowledge how mania affects how we live life moving forward. Managing the increased sensitivity and change in social views and values.
  • How to think of this process as a game, because games are fun.
  • To use this book to have a dialogue with yourself


In this book, you'll find answers you've been searching for, a new outlook on mania, and plenty of ways to reestablish control of your life.


"A wonderful personal exploration of the tremendous growth potential found within mysterious states of consciousness called mania and bipolar. Andrea Grey's courage to learn from her own suffering has illuminated new pathways out of antiquated medical reductionism. She brings us closer to the day bipolar, psychosis, and schizophrenia join homosexuality and are no longer pathologized as diseases, but welcomed as normal expressions of human diversity. I hope Andrea's book inspires many more like it: we need her vital perspective."


Will Hall, author of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs, cofounder of Hearing Voices Network USA, and author of Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness


"The wisdom within these pages, of the courage and hard graft it takes to own and hone your life as 'trans- conscious', is needed at this time in history like water in a drought."


Katie Mottram, Founder of the Emerging Proud campaign


If you're ready to take your power back and discover the meaning in mania, then don't hesitate. Scroll up and one click buy your copy now!

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Overview

This fresh new take on Bipolar 1 invites you to take control of your life, gamify your existence, and build your understanding of manic episodes and psychosis. No doubt you've heard of recovery, but this book focuses on "Re-Uncovery" or the process to look back and uncover the missing meaning that surfaced while in non-volitional extraordinary states. If you stop and imagine mania as the universes' attempt to gamify you and your life, that you're the main character and your life is up to you, then you can begin to unravel your unique truths. Instead of ignoring and oppressing intense experiences, you're invited to get curious, wonder, and participate in your unfoldment through the alchemy of your aware attention.

You'll discover many new facts that'll help you on your journey, including:


  • How to remember many thoughts and perspectives you had in mania and in metamania by reading about lenses and perspectives.
  • Seeing that mania is a natural process that is handled and looked upon unnaturally.
  • To stop apologizing for the experiences by being shamed by them.
  • To be in awe of bipolar and the strength it takes to live it.
  • How to feel less alone in some of your "out there" experiences and perspectives.
  • How to create safety and social reconnection by making sense of experience.
  • To acknowledge how mania affects how we live life moving forward. Managing the increased sensitivity and change in social views and values.
  • How to think of this process as a game, because games are fun.
  • To use this book to have a dialogue with yourself


In this book, you'll find answers you've been searching for, a new outlook on mania, and plenty of ways to reestablish control of your life.


"A wonderful personal exploration of the tremendous growth potential found within mysterious states of consciousness called mania and bipolar. Andrea Grey's courage to learn from her own suffering has illuminated new pathways out of antiquated medical reductionism. She brings us closer to the day bipolar, psychosis, and schizophrenia join homosexuality and are no longer pathologized as diseases, but welcomed as normal expressions of human diversity. I hope Andrea's book inspires many more like it: we need her vital perspective."


Will Hall, author of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs, cofounder of Hearing Voices Network USA, and author of Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness


"The wisdom within these pages, of the courage and hard graft it takes to own and hone your life as 'trans- conscious', is needed at this time in history like water in a drought."


Katie Mottram, Founder of the Emerging Proud campaign


If you're ready to take your power back and discover the meaning in mania, then don't hesitate. Scroll up and one click buy your copy now!


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781778155611
Publisher: Andrea Hollebakken
Publication date: 07/16/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 348
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Andrea hopes to help others find meaning in mania and psychosis. Her wish is to give others permission to explore their extraordinary experiences and recontextualize them as human potential.

Table of Contents

Introduction Bipolar or Trans-Conscious?

The Taboo

Disclaimer - Exclaimer

How to Use this Living the Experiencing Based Book

Part ONE Away from the Past Meaningless Mental Illness

Chapter 1 Building a Foundation of Manic Meaning

A Bipolar Train Ride to the World of Mania

Mania, Meaning, and Meaninglessness

Permission to Break the Taboo and Glorify Mania

The Importance of the Re-Uncovery Process

Chapter 2 Pathological Ideas to Crowd Out

Carry On Like a Thriver - But First a Critique

On Psychiatric System Change

Some Words on Suffering and Growth

From Recovery to Un-Recovery to Re-Uncovery

What's in the Way of a Neurodiversity Perspective of Bipolar?

Part TWO Towards the Future-Present Approach of Meaning

Chapter 3 When you Change the Way You Look at Things...

The Discovery that Others See it Too - I'm Not Alone in Thinking Outside the Bipolar Box

A New Approach - Harvesting the Meaning in Mania

Words about Words - Re-Languaging Bipolar Disorder ON Our Own Terms and IN Our Own Terms

Self-dialogue for Re-Uncovery

Creating a Mesh of Meaning in Our Experiences

Chapter 4 Two Steps Back to Ego Consciousness 190

Our Unnatural Natural State - Unmasking the

False-self and Thought

A Minimalism Approach to the False-self and Thought

Is the Self Concept an Ultimate Delusion?

Our Default Mode Hallucinates Our Reality

Part THREE The Bipolar Roller Coaster Ride

Chapter 5 The Awe Transformation

Mania - Disengaging the False-self and Having New Eyes

Trauma, Transformation, Sensitivity, and Virtual Reality

Exploring Possibilities through Metaphors of Mania

Manic Traits and Superpowers - Living Faster than A Head of Concepts

Chapter 6 What Goes Up Must Come Down

The Tipping Point - From Mania into Psychosis

More Strange Crisis Experiences and Eerily Accurate Cinematic Depictions of Mania and Psychosis

I am Spiritually Going Crazy, Am I?

Part FOUR Practical Preparedness, Tips, and Tricks

Chapter 7 It Was All Just a Mental Illness!?

Mercy, Grace, Relief, and Deep-Rest

Grieving the Loss of Our Manic Self

Anger, Pain, Fear, and Shame

Don't Forget the Physical World

Creative Safety for Walking Between Worlds

Chapter 8 More Hints for Navigating the Next Time

Hedonism Harm Reduction

The Pitfalls of Ego Inflation and Grandiosity

On Being Powerful in Programmed Places,

Tripping on Grace, and Cushioning the Fall on Your Faces

Shifting Back and Forth Between States - Phase Transition and Reverse Metamorphosis

Final Resonant Cognitive Dissonance

Acknowledgments

A Chaos of References

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