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Bipolar Mania: 'Why do some people have so much energy, enthusiasm, and creativity all the time?'

'I’ve studied a lot of Jungian Analytic Psychology, and this is how I’ve changed from a low-energy person to a high-energy person.

  • Children almost always have high energy. This is because very little of their authentic desires, needs, instincts are repressed (yet). This is why children can eat terrible food and bounce effortlessly from interactive activity to activity.
  • As we grow up, family / friends / society tells us what parts of our original childhood self are good or bad (praised / validated or shamed / useless). We basically get tried to ‘give up’ and suppress a lot of our original drives. For example a drive to be the center of attention or play spontaneously or be a class clown or express romantic / fairytale desire or even just feel powerful.
  • These original needs and drives never disappear, they are pushed into the unconscious and become a ‘shadow personality’. It requires energy to suppress them, and because they are themselves sources of energy, we eliminate a ton of our potential energy.
  • Usually at a mid-life crisis (but in reality at any point in your life) you can confront and re-own / integrate your shadow self (stop suppressing it). There are a lot of books and articles on how to do this. Common tactics involve dream analysis, mindfulness of spontaneous body / mind needs, and identifying when you’re “projecting” your needs on others. Usually it involves letting go of whatever shame / fear / ritual / social validation made you want to suppress those desires in the first place.

I think this tactic only works if you were a high energy kid and if psychoanalysis / analytic psychology appeals to you. But I definitely found a ton of energy I never had before.'


- Geoff Domoracki

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